Bottle Raiders

1 week ago | bottleraiders.com | Candie Getgen

Distiller: Tequila El Rocio Bottler: Alto Canto ABV: 40% Age: NAS Price: $100 to $199.99 Alto Canto distills its tequila at a dedicated distillery recently constructed 9,000 feet above sea level. The brand, which translates to "High Song" in English, uses traditional brick ovens, a volcanic stone tahona, an additive-free recipe and a malolactic fermentation process. Its Reposado is aged for four months in new American oak barrels housed in adobe.

1 week ago | bottleraiders.com | Pedro Wolfe

It’s impossible to deny the appeal of a pink bottle of liquor. As the rosé wine craze continues to climb to extravagant, billion-dollar heights, the alcohol industry has toiled long and hard finding ways to expand its colorful appeal into other categories. It’s proved an unexpectedly tough task. Red wine-finished whiskeys — love them or hate them — can all too easily find themselves in bitter, overly tannic territory.

1 week ago | bottleraiders.com | Candie Getgen

Distiller: Tenneyson Bottler: Tenneyson Age: NAS Price: $30 to $59.99 Black Ginger by Tenneyson is a non-alcoholic aperitif made in Austin, Texas, featuring ginger, dandelion, lemon balm, bergamot, yerba mate, grape seed and gentian root. It retails for about $39.

1 week ago | bottleraiders.com | David Morrow

St. Buena Vida, a New York-based brand, on Wednesday unveiled its first product: a dry, non-alcoholic sparkling Chardonnay made from organic Spanish grapes. The wine is produced using a dealcoholization process finished in Germany with “Solos”, a technology designed to retain aromatic compounds lost in traditional methods. St. Buena Vida claims to be the first U.S.-based brand to use Solos in winemaking. The sparkling wine features aromas of ripe pear, citrus, green apple skin and white flowers.

1 week ago | bottleraiders.com | Pedro Wolfe

Celebrities and booze brands. It’s a combination as tried and true as peanut butter and jelly. The trend, which emerged in the early 2000s before dialing into overdrive in 2017, has dominated nearly a decade of liquor sales in the United States, reshaping how and why we drink along the way. But the market became oversaturated. And preferences changed.