Wine and Spirits Rally for the Holidays

Dear Client: Happy New Year. We're glad to be back from break and we have much to discuss. First and foremost, we'll look at the healthy boost in sales the early part of the holidays delivered. Wine sales slightly outperformed spirits with growth of 13% compared to 10.6%, respectively, in the 4 weeks to December 22 per IRI multi outlet + c-store numbers. Though both continued to outperform beer sales at 9.3% growth. TOP PERFORMING SPIRITS COMPANIES: Sazerac came out