Dear Client: The US spirits category's underlying growth is running at about 6% in value and 3.5% in volume in 2019, according to a recent note from Bernstein analyst Trevor Stirling.For the first three months of 2019, here's how the big spirits companies ranked by volume growth: Campari, 5.3% Sazerac, 4.9%Diageo, 3.7%Constellation Brands, 3.2%Beam Suntory, 2.7% Brown-Forman, 2%Pernod Ricard, 1.3%Remy Cointreau, 1.2%Bacardi USA, 0.1% (note: NABCA does not include Patron in the Bacardi data)Heaven Hill, -0.8% CAMPARI GOING STRONG. Since
