News of the bulk spirits and alcohols sector

Most of our readers have surely heard of rums or brandies aged with the solera system, but how does it work? Well, this Method was used mostly in Spain to age brandy and wine. Nowadays it is quite common to find rums aged with this system. To be able to explain accurately how this process is done, we […]

As many of you know, during three days, from March 19th to the 21st, took place the international exhibition of wines and spirits in Dusseldorf, considered number one in the world: Prowein. The exhibition counted with more than 6,000 exhibitors from 59 countries and more than 55,000 experts in this field were gathered as visitors in the sample place. It […]

The most ancient spirit drink in Europe, which has been distilled from the Sixth Century and which has been experiencing a strong growth, is the Irish Whisky/Whiskey or Uisce Beatha Eireannach in Gaelic. The return of Irish whiskey, a boom never seen The Irish Whiskey sales have grown tremendously in more than 60 countries, being the United States the […]

In our last post, we explained the difference between liters and liters of pure alcohol and how to calculate the price in each unit, a quite simple matter, as our readers have seen. At present article, we bring a slightly more complex issue that can be a greater headache: the conversion between prices in Liters of Absolute Alcohol and Proof […]

For many of the readers of this blog the answer for this question maybe is clear, but for those who are not familiar with the technicities or who are just approaching bulk alcohol recently, this post may be useful to understand the reason for giving prices in litres of Pure alcohol instead of simply in […]

The Government will increase some ‘special taxes’, as alcohol, to get closer to the deficit required by the European Commission on 2017. In Spain, alcohol is affected by special taxes. These are indirect taxes that apply to certain products and depend on the consumption, without having any effect on the rent. In the country, alcohol […]

During the years 2015 and 2016 in our company, we mark as objective to know in person to our customers and suppliers. A pending and much-desired trip was US, we wanted to meet the birthplace of Bourbon, meet in person the Whiskey manufacturers, so we put date for October 2016. During ours stay in the USA, we […]

During the past 2015, only by indirect taxation (VAT plus Special Taxes), the sector of the spirits contributed to the Public Treasury with 1,300 million euros. This was contributed by an increase of sales of 2% after a full decade of negative growth, reaching 190 million liters. This is one of the arguments put forward […]

Bourbon is the whiskey produced in United States at not exceeding 80% alcohol by volume from a fermented mash of not less than 51% corn and stored at not more than 62.5% alcohol by volume in charred new oak containers. Legislation does not mention the time that must be ageing to call it Bourbon but […]

Port wine is an exceptional and historical wine, and is one of the great classic wines of Europe. This product is key for Portuguese national economy and it has an important symbolic value. Port wine has been made since almost two millennia in the Douro Valley; this region became the first legally demarcated wine area […]

Rum is often said to be the first alcoholic drink of the new world. The Arabs carried the Sugar cane to Spain and it was brought to the Americas by the colonists. Later on, the French and British who settled in West Indies, in the late nineteenth century started to grow and to transform sugar […]

The word Whisky (as it is written in England and Canada) or Whiskey (as they prefer in Ireland and U.S.), as most of you already know, refers to the alcoholic beverage that is distilled from a mash of fermented grains, mainly barley, corn, wheat and rye; after one or several distillations it is aged in wooden barrels, traditionally of […]