Alcohol Keeps Handing Its Enemies a Free Weapon

Instead of taking the easy win

Jun 3 • Felicity Carter

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May 2026

How One Wine Body Finally Called Out the Junk Science

The German Wine Institute has had enough

May 7 • Felicity Carter

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April 2026

What Happens If Wine Becomes Just Another Luxury?

The road to irrelevance

Apr 20 • Jeff Siegel

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The Reason Americans Have Stopped Drinking Out

And what it signals for the restaurant trade elsewhere

Apr 6 • Felicity Carter

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February 2026

Why Does The New York Times Keep Telling You Alcohol Will Kill You?

Not so much a temperance campaign, but more of a business model

Feb 19 • Felicity Carter

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January 2026

How the Safest Business in Alcohol Blew Up

RNDC's collapse exposes how concentrated the middle tier has become

Jan 27 • Jeff Siegel

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It’s Not “No Safe Level” — But Not Moderation Either

And a blistering takedown of an alcohol report.

Jan 7 • Felicity Carter

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December 2025

I Called Wine As Complex As Blood on French TV

And then the fact checking started. Who knew wine people were such pedants?

Dec 22, 2025 • Felicity Carter

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November 2025

How to Lose the Alcohol Culture War

Appeasement never works

Nov 17, 2025 • Felicity Carter

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October 2025

Canada’s Cancer Label Fight Puts the Alcohol Industry on Notice

What’s happening in Ottawa could set the tone for global labelling battles

Oct 24, 2025 • Felicity Carter

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Wine’s Losing Battle: Why Other Beverages Are Taking Its Drinkers

Plus, ProWein’s makeover, what Jefferies thinks is really driving the alcohol slump, and how one limoncello spritz sparked a million-bottle craze.

Oct 17, 2025 • Felicity Carter

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September 2025

Wholesalers Are Sitting on Wine, but Don’t Expect a Bargain

The tariff chaos is beginning to bite

Sep 30, 2025 • Jeff Siegel

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