Welcome to another edition of Uncorked News. Interesting industry info for liquor stores, beer stores, and wine shops with a splash of point of sale (POS) technology topics.
The Beer Business Is Trying to Find the Guy Who Did This
“Pride cometh before the fall. Let me warn you, Icarus. Chat s–t, get banged. The modern lexicon is absolutely teeming with cautionary idioms about the compounding perils of ambition and overconfidence. But one look at the American beer aisle these days, and it’s clear that the industry’s biggest players aren’t in the listening mood.”
A big bottle of wine sat in his basement for decades. It could go for $80K
“A California man could make tens of thousands of dollars thanks to a bottle of wine he bought in the 1970s and never opened.
Mark Paulson bought a bottle of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti La Tâche in the 1970s and left it alone, unopened, inside a cardboard box in his basement for decades. Paulson initially purchased the 1971 bottle for $250 – the equivalent of $1,889 today when adjusted for inflation.”
From liquor to wine, New Mexico CC is offering opportunities to make it
Fernandez is the distilling instructor at CNM through their BPM program. He just received some new tools to teach and educate the next generation of beverage creators”
Best of the Rest
Rochester Liquor Store Expands to Double Its Size, Offering More Selections
Spirits Outstrip Beer for US Drinkers
Intuit Is Ending Support for QuickBooks POS, Triggering a Scramble for Small Merchants’ Business
Was 16th-Century Beer Stronger Than Modern Brews? This Research Team Found Out
How the Pink Boots Society is changing the future of craft beer
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