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Liquor Industry News/Links 11-19-16

Liquor Industry News/Links

11-19-16

Franklin Liquors

By: Mark C Lenzi

CSW, CSS, CWAS, FWS, IWS*

Held In Our Wine Room This Week

Franklin Wine Club The Romantic Rhone Wine Adventure

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10 Italian Wines To Learn Italy

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Thanksgiving What To Serve With The Bird Newsletter

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Have A Safe And Happy Thanksgiving!

Take Care

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Mike & Mark

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Liquor Industry Week In Review

This Weeks Highlights:

History behind the rare and frivolous Beaujolais Nouveau

Tasting notes decoded

The Misunderstood Art of Wine Sniffing

AND MORE!

Franklin Liquors New Daily Newspaper

The Wonderful World of Wine (WWW)

Our Daily Wine Newspaper

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This Algorithm’s Taste in Wine Is Better Than Yours

With the new site Verve Wine, master sommelier Dustin Wilson sides with the robots.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-11/this-algorithm-s-taste-in-wine-is-better-than-yours

How To Drink Like A Billionaire: A Guide To Wine, Champagne, And Spirits For The 99%

Wine expert and writer Mark Oldman has coined the term “billionaire drinker”in his third book, How to Drink Like a Billionaire.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/karenhua/2016/11/10/mark-oldman-how-to-drink-like-a-billionaire-be-a-rule-breaker/#36f6cf0f1121

Thanksgiving beer picks

Thanksgiving dinner is probably the largest meal that many of us will eat all year and it can be one of the most complex meals in terms of flavors and dishes served.

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/story/life/food/2016/11/11/jeff-bakers-thanksgiving-craft-beer-review-recommendation/93583494/

Cannabis Cocktails? Constellation Sees Opening as Pot Laws Ease

Constellation Brands Inc., the alcohol giant that sells Corona beer and Svedka vodka, is considering a new approach to livening up its beverages: marijuana.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-10/weed-liquor-corona-executive-sees-opportunity-in-legalization

New Belgium Announces Distribution in Massachusetts in 2017

Massachusetts’ love affair with New Belgium will begin just in time for Valentine’s Day.

http://www.brewbound.com/news/new-belgium-announces-distribution-massachusetts-2017?utm_source=Daily+Brew&utm_campaign=3de8cf054b-The+Daily+Brew%3A+November+11%2C+2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_935b7e0b70-3de8cf054b-36686829

5 wine-tastic facts about Tempranillo

Spain’s famous Rioja region is renowned for its vibrant and expressive wines made from Tempranillo, which tend to be aromatic and spicy with red fruit aromas and flavors

http://www.sfgate.com/sponsoredarticles/lifestyle/food-recipes-entertaining/article/5-wine-tastic-facts-about-Tempranillo-10606166.php

ROTTEN WINE GRAPE REVIEW

With grapes, there are two sides of the mold story when talking about a very specific fungus called Botrytis cinerea.

http://www.snooth.com/articles/rotten-wine-grape-review/

Americas Craft Beer Capitals

Wine by Design Releases Chicago Cubs 2016 World Series Championship Sparkling Wine

To celebrate the Chicago Cubs’ historic first World Series championship since 1908, Wine by Design, the exclusive wine licensee of Major League Baseball, is delivering a limited-edition World Series Championship Brut

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wine-by-design-releases-chicago-cubs-2016-world-series-championship-sparkling-wine-300361240.html

England’s wine industry is booming, thanks to climate change.

The information helps both the winegrower and global climate science.

http://www.euronews.com/2016/11/10/climate-change-is-good-news-for-england-s-wine-industry

The Affordable French White Wine You Probably Don’t Know About

Why It’s Time to Consider White Bordeaux

http://www.thekitchn.com/the-affordable-french-white-wine-you-probably-dont-know-about-237669

Controlling Birds in the Vineyards

Loss of valuable grapes is an annual problem and until now there have been very limited options for control. Vineyards with Kites

http://wineindustrynetwork.com/suppliers/falcon-crop-protection.html#whatsnew

White Wine: Top 11 Shocking Health Benefits

When it comes to the health benefits of drinking alcohol, red wine gets all the attention. However, white wine is not without its health benefits – in fact, there are quite a few that have gone unnoticed.

http://ppcorn.com/us/2016/11/09/white-wine-11-shocking-health-benefits/

Mastering Mendoza Malbec

Mendoza is a large province (nearly the size of Illinois) that is home to 75% of the Argentina’s vineyards and Malbec is the region’s most celebrated grape

http://winefolly.com/review/mastering-mendoza-malbec/

The Misunderstood Art of Wine Sniffing

Why is it that many wine lovers, upon uncorking a bottle of wine and then pouring a glass, begin by sniffing?

http://www.telegram.com/entertainmentlife/20161110/off-vine-misunderstood-art-of-wine-sniffing

A Must Muscadet

You probably have an image of Muscadet that begins on a scale of steely simplicity and works down to utter vinous neutrality.

https://intoxreport.com/2016/11/09/a-must-muscadet/

7 Great Choices for Thanksgiving Wines

Some classic wine choices for Thanksgiving as well as a few new intriguing options that you might not have considered.

http://winefolly.com/update/8-great-thanksgiving-wines-2016/?utm_source=Wine+Folly&utm_campaign=ad3f008421-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a18d8bdc1b-ad3f008421-62472929&mc_cid=ad3f008421&mc_eid=d73340fcba

The Best Wines to Try From Chile

As a new world wine region, with 2,700 miles of coastline along the frigid Pacific Ocean, Chile produces wines that are both fruit-forward factor and herbaceous, similar to French wine

http://winefolly.com/review/the-best-wines-to-try-from-chile/?utm_source=Wine+Folly&utm_campaign=ad3f008421-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_a18d8bdc1b-ad3f008421-62472929&mc_cid=ad3f008421&mc_eid=d73340fcba

Thanksgiving wine snobbery exposed!

All together, now: deep breaths. Stay calm. Don’t sweat about the wine for Thanksgiving.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/thanksgiving-wine-snobbery-exposed/2016/11/11/399d706c-a749-11e6-8fc0-7be8f848c492_story.html

Move Over Malbec, Bonarda is Argentina’s Next Red

It’s Argentina’s second most widely planted red grape! Find out more about this delightful red wine and why you might even prefer it to Malbec.

http://winefolly.com/update/move-over-malbec-bonarda-is-argentina/

The Wine Lover’s Guide to Portugal

True wine aficionados know the secrets of Portugal’s soil, but too many of the world’s oenophiles don’t know what they’re missing

http://www.travelandleisure.com/food-drink/wine/wine-lover-guide-portugal

WINE AND VINYL DELIVERY SERVICE LAUNCHED

A blues musician has launched a wine and vinyl company that sends subscribers a 12-inch album and a wine designed to complement the record each month.

https://www.thedrinksbusiness.com/2016/11/wine-and-vinyl-delivery-service-launched/

Glass of wine before cigarette ‘can prevent damage’

Wine prevented the release of micro-particles from artery walls which indicate smoking damage

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/glass-of-wine-smoking-cigarette-prevent-damage-viktoria-schwarz-a7419301.html

The labels on these wine bottles are short stories, so you can read while you sip

Italian winery Matteo Correggia and design agency Reverse Innovation have teamed up for a new range that professes to be “where great wine and literary pleasure meet”.

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/the-labels-on-these-wine-bottles-are-short-stories-so-you-can-read-while-you-sip-a7420981.html

13 beer off-flavors to know and avoid

Things that make you go “ew.”

http://draftmag.com/13-beer-off-flavors/?utm_source=Daily+Brew&utm_campaign=de81cee58f-The+Daily+Brew%3A+November+16%2C+2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_935b7e0b70-de81cee58f-36686829

Tasting notes decoded

Get to grips with the some of the more obscure tasting notes used by wine experts, with graphics

http://www.decanter.com/learn/advice/understand-tasting-notes-decoded-344920/#WIM7Lo0m3pltFs2L.99

History behind the rare and frivolous Beaujolais Nouveau

French law prohibited its sale before Nov. 15 of each year

2016 NOW IN STOCK!!

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/lifestyle/6290417-181/berger-the-whimsical-history-of

Wine advertising gets blown away by beer: Nielsen

What Everyone Should Know About the Santa Lucia Highlands AVA

Commercial wine grape cultivation started in the Santa Lucia Highlands (SLH) during the early 1970’s. It was granted AVA status in 1991. Today, there are 50 vineyards and 6,200 acres under vine.

http://www.fredswan.wine/2016/11/15/what-everyone-should-know-santa-lucia-highlands/

New Not Your Fathers Products

Wauconda, Illinois-based Small Town Brewery is introducing two new limited edition beers, Not Your Father’s Taproom IPA and Not Your Father’s Cherry Ale. Taproom IPA is made with U.S. and European malts and Yakima Valley hops, while the cherry ale is brewed with U.S., Belgian and German malts, Washington sour cherries and German hops. Not Your Father’s Taproom IPA (6.5% abv) and Cherry Ale (8.5% abv) will be available initially in Oregon and Washington in six-packs of 12-ounce bottles for about $11. The new entries join Small Town’s Not Your Father’s hard soda range that includes the flagship Root Beer, which depleted nearly 3 million (2.25-gallon) cases in 2015, earning Impact “Hot Brand” honors.

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