VDKA 6100 in conjunction with The Drink Cabinet and Jason Crawley have launched the new cocktail competition entitled “Drinks with De Niro”. The prize on offer is a once in a lifetime opportunity – the chance to drink cocktails with actor Robert De Niro in New York City and tour of some of Manhattan’s best bars. The VDKA 6100 cocktail competition encourages creativity and careful thought from bartenders w…

Local Sydney food cart, Busboy, has launched a crowd-funding campaign to finance a 3-wheeled craft beer and cider dispensing cargo bike called Brewboy. Busboy describes their mobile food cart as “More portable than a food truck. Better than a food stall”, serving food at Sydney events and product launches, parties, pop-ups, picnics and promotions. Along the way, Busboy has also frequented some of Sydney’s…

Grey Goose Vodka is set to unveil its latest advertising campaign at the Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF), beginning next week. As partner of the festival, Grey Goose will use the opportunity to bring ‘La Pursuit’ to life for festival-goers during the opening of some of the hottest movies currently on screen. The new TVC has been directed by the award-winning Steve Ayson and captured by direct…

Lindeman’s and agency J. Walter Thompson Melbourne have released their latest creative global campaign. ‘The World Smiles with Lindeman’s’ captures what makes people from across the world smile, in a bid to promote the Hunter Valley wine brand’s positive philosophy and the social nature of wine. The campaign will launch in Australia this month through digital, still and video TVCs, in-store activations an…

4 Pines has released a Double Cascadian Dark Ale under its Keller Door small batch beer project. This limited edition beer has twice the intensity and darkness of your average ale and follows on from 4 Pines’ The Black Box of Dark Ales, made specifically for winter tastebuds. This beer is robust and jam-packed with fresh hops from the West Coast of the USA. The name ‘Cascadia’ comes from the Cascade Mount…

Australian wine exports priced at $10 FOB* and over per litre have hit record value according to Wine Australia’s Export Report, released on Thursday. The report shows that the segment grew by 26 per cent to $499 million in the 12 months to the end of June 2016 – the highest ever recorded – contributing to 11 per cent growth in the overall value of exports. Demand for the segment came in particular from N…

Those planning to attend this year’s WCA KPMG Sydney Royal Wine Show Trophy Winner Lunch have just over a week left to purchase their tickets. The lunch is one of the most anticipated events on the wine industry calendar and will be held this year on Friday July 29, with ticket sales closing Monday July 25. The lunch is an opportunity for attendees to taste the Trophy and Gold Medal award-winning wines of…

Treasury Wine Estates has announced August 3 as the release date for the highly anticipated 2016 Wynnsday collection. The collection, which has been released annually since the 1980s, this year will feature six wines from the 2013 and 14 vintages. The 2016 collection aims to showcase Wynns’ house-style and includes the Black Label Cabernet Sauvignon 2014 (RRP $44.99), V&A Lane Shiraz 2014 (RRP $59.99)…

Think Spirits is now distributing Outerspace Vodka to the Australian market. The five-times distilled vodka is gluten-free and filtered through meteorites for ultimate purity. However, the most attention-grabbing aspect would have to be the packaging. The Outerspace Vodka bottle is shaped in the widely accepted form of an alien head. Co-founder Jim Denoon said, “It’s ironic. No one knows what an alien loo…

Australian vermouth brand, Regal Rogue, is currently seeking an investor for $850,000. Founder, Mark Ward, wants to push into a new phase of growth and establish Regal Road as ‘the world’s drinking vermouth’ as an alternative to gin. Regal Rogue is made using 100 per cent Australian wine and native Australian herbs and spices, and launched in Australia in 2012 and later in the UK. It is a semi-dry style a…