The Boston Beer Co., maker of Samuel Adams, will team up with a venerable German brewery to jointly produce a new craft beer for marketing in Germany and the United States next spring. ...more

October 22, 2009

ABC Fine Wine and Spirits executives hope a new store will become the toast of the town. ...more

January 17, 2009

More than 30,000 revelers from around the Suncoast are expected at the biggest street party kick-off for the winter season, Dunedin Wines the Blues, next weekend. The 18th edition of the festival, which increases in attendance each year, begins at 5 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 8, in downtown Dunedin along Main Street and plays on into the night. ...more

November 8, 2008

We first met Francesco Lafranconi at the 2007 Tampa Bay Food & Wine Festival. There he was, in white linen pants and a pink pinstriped tailored shirt, sleeves rolled up, relegated to an oak barrel just a stone's throw from the painted naked lady. He was mixing a heavenly concoction of Dom Perignon, rose nectar and fresh blueberries. Sweat poured from his European brow, thanks to the Florida humidity. ...more

July 15, 2008

A Miramar-based liquor distributor plans to add as many as 550 employees and build a shopping-mall-sized warehouse facility in south Hillsborough County as part of a massive local expansion. ...more

November 30, 2007