Articles Tagged with ''flavored vodka''

Prestige Imports LLC will introduce three new Penthouse-branded spirits, produced by The Melchers Group BV, nationwide in November.

Diageo added two flavors to its Smirnoff Sorbet Light brand of reduced-calorie flavored vodkas.

Pinnacle Vodka, a brand of Deerfield, Ill.-based Beam Suntory Inc., introduced Pinnacle Amaretto Vodka.

Within the wine and spirits categories, dark spirits and blended wines are leading growth, according to analysts.

Phillips Distilling Co., Minneapolis, launched UV Sugar Crush tropical fruit candy-flavored vodka.

Since the start of the FIFA World Cup on June 12, soccer (or football) has taken the world by storm. Just this week at IFT in New Orleans, tradeshow attendees gathered around exhibitor booths with TVs to catch the action. In some moments, you almost forgot you were at a tradeshow when the fan crowd roared and cheered.

Brown spirits are leading much of the growth in the U.S. spirits market, with the segment growing 3 percent in the first four months of 2014, according to New York-based Rabobank’s latest global spirits report. More specifically, sales of Tennessee whiskey and bourbon expanded their already large shares, while flavored whiskey, rye, small-batch whiskey, and Irish whiskey and single-malt Scotch whisky maintained their impressive growth rates, it reports.

Temperance Distilling Co. launched Liquorizh five-times-distilled vodkas.

Hard ciders were popular in the United Kingdom for years before reaching the mainstream U.S. market. Likewise, stevia was used as a sweetener in Japan for decades before getting approval as a safe food additive in the United States in the form of Rebaudioside A, according to Cargill. Many trends are born overseas and eventually make their way to the U.S. market. But that doesn’t mean Americans can’t be trendsetters too.

In a hypothetical “Star Wars” scenario, Darth Vader could use the dark side of the Force to telekinetically shatter a glass bottle of vodka from across the room, for instance.