Sales of premium wine in the US are expected to decline again in 2019, according to the Silicon Valley Bank's State of the Wine Industry Report, with a slowdown driven by retiring baby boomers and millennials’ delay in becoming wine drinkers.
A call for three volunteers "to drink hard liquor to the point of inebriation", made by a police department in Pennsylvania, has perhaps unsurprisingly received "an overwhelming response".
A new report has found that alcohol sales in the US rose by 5.1%, the equivalent of US$12.4 billion, to reach US$253.8 billion in 2018, despite the US population drinking less.
US grocery chain Trader Joe's is taking a new approach to recycling, selling wine bottle 'succulent gardens' in select stores for US$12.99.