Hand selling hand-crafted

摘要

Super-premium is where all the growth in the spirits market is these days, according to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States. And nothing is more super than artisanal hand-crafted spirits-vodka, gin and whisky-turned out by micro-distilleries that are springing up across the country from Portland, Maine, to Portland, Oregon. Indeed, craft distilleries are where craft brewing was a decade or so ago. The American Distilling Institute, a trade group for independent producers, now counts some 95 distilleries in the United States and Canada, up from five in 1 990. The trend also fits neatly into the local sourcing movement.