Drinks Insider

Rowena Curlewis is the woman behind some of the most iconic designs in the drinks space — not only has she worked on brands like Penfolds and 19 Crimes, but she recently created the labels for Dolly Wines, the first wines released by legend Dolly Parton. Rowena is, with Margaret Nolan, the co-founder of Denomination Design , a brand design agency headquartered in Sydney, with offices in San Franci...

How do you break into a category that’s completely dominated by one major, very cashed-up player? If you’re Tyson Branz Destileria Barako Corp, you test the local market and build up a fan base who spread the word wherever they go, helping to do the marketing for you. In this episode, Tyson explains how he and his team developed Ube Cream Liqueur, and how they turned it into an export dynamo by tu...

What’s better than marketing your brand yourself? Getting other people to talk about your brand. The more (positive) attention you get, the easier it is to get people to try your product, and to convince distributors, retailers and the off-trade to stock it. The man who knows more about this than just about anybody else in the US is Gino Colangeo, founder of Colangelo & Partners, which has a h...

Neha Kumar knows a lot about money and finance. As well as a background in banking, and plenty of corporate experience, she also lectures at UCLA’s Anderson School of Management and collaborates with the Women’s Abundance Collective, teaching high-net-worth women the ins and outs of investing and deal-making.  And, at a time when wine sales are wobbling, she’s raised $14 million to invest in her c...

The U.S. beverage market is the most lucrative in the world — if your product is a hit, your money worries will (mostly) be over. But the post-pandemic market is undergoing a structural shift, with beverage alcohol declining and consumers wanting new flavors on a regular basis. In this episode, Kaleigh Theirault of NielsenIQ tracks the changes, from the rise of canned cocktails to the emergence of...