Here’s a round-up of this week’s top stories from the global spirits & wine categories. Click the links to view our round-ups for beer & cider and soft drinks & bottled water.

Rounding off our series of category forecasts for the year ahead, white spirits commentator Richard Woodard looks at what 2018 has in store for gin, Tequila, rum, vodka…

Towards the end of last year, the UK Supreme Court cleared the path for the introduction of Minimum Unit Pricing (MUP) in Scotland. The decision has prompted many questions: Is this the right approach to tackle the issue of irresponsible drinking? Are moderate drinkers being punished for the actions of a few? Indeed, is the Scottish Government using a sledgehammer to crack a nut? Laura Foster investigates.

Continuing his series of category forecasts for 2018, Euromonitor’s senior alcoholic drinks analyst, Spiros Malandrakis, drills down into what the year ahead could have in store for the spirits sector.

The trials and tribulations of the white spirits category proved of interest to the analyst community in their notes following the release of Diageo‘s first-half results. On the one hand, baijiu is having a great time in China. On the other, vodka continues to struggle in the US.

Treasury Wine Estates has embarked on an overhaul of its distribution agreements in 15 “key states” in the US.

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Treasury Wine Estates has pronounced the integration of the recently-purchased Diageo wine assets as complete, with the group’s sales in the first half of fiscal-2018 inching up on slowing volumes.

Here, just-drinks looks at the group’s first-half performance on a regional basis. 

Irish gin is expected to make further global inroads this year after exports more than trebled in 2017, according to a new report.

Bacardi has appointed Vijay Subramaniam to the role of managing director for Asia Pacific, the Middle East & Africa (AMEA). 

The Scotch Whisky Association has capped a high-level trade trip to China with a deal that renews the trademark for Scotch in the country.

The spirits category has continued to take share in the US, as the industry celebrates consumer confidence in the market.