Tariffs imposed by the EU, China and others on American whiskey led to a sharp drop in exports in the second half of 2018, according to the Distilled Spirits Council.
DISCUS claims not to mind whether states run their own liquor stores, as long as they are willing to “modernise” them by allowing tastings, long hours, a big choice and so on.
This summer Jackson Family Wines, an American firm, became the first big maker of still wines to invest in England; it plans to acquire around 26 hectares in the Crouch Valley in Essex.
One of the fund's recent investments, for example, is in Seedlip, a British firm that makes distilled, non-alcoholic " spirits" flavoured with botanicals, and which last year launched in America.
Let's dish this up and serve it along with some creme fraiche, and also raise a glass to our man Monet of Calvados--a distilled liquor made from apples--another famous export of Normandy.
The occasion for this uprising was another of Hamilton's measures, a law laying an excise tax on distilled spirits, for the purpose of increasing the revenue needed to pay the interest on the funded debt.
I can tell you I did not learn to bake bread or speak Mandarin. I did improve my cocktail game. And I have been a very faithful contributor to the growth of the American distilled spirits industry.