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“Wine is no different than toilet paper”
One of the most powerful wine buyers in the world, Annette Alvarez-Peters of Costco, has slammed wine as “just a beverage” and “no different than toilet paper.” Annette Alvarez-Peters Speaking in a...
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Costco to sell high-end wine in UK
The world’s largest wine retailer, Costco, is branching out into the UK market, having launched a UK website selling high-end wines and spirits. Cristal 2004, one of the wines available at Costco.co.uk...
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Top 50 most powerful women in wine: 10-1
The final instalment of our top 50 most powerful women in wine reveals those ranked from 10 to 1. This is it. Having ranked numbers 50-11, we bring you our top 10 most powerful women in wine at the...
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‘Perfect’ Penfolds Grange sparks price war
A price war is raging among retailers in Australia over the 2008 vintage of Penfolds Grange, which received a perfect 100-point score from The Wine Advocate. Price wars: retailers are battling it out...
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Craft beer now 30% of Costco’s beer sales
US retail giant Costco has announced that craft beer now accounts for 30% of the company’s total beer sales. Craft beer now accounts for 30% of Costco’s beer sales Though it’s not only at Costo that...
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VIDEO: This Costco fan’s unofficial advert dedicated to the store’s beer has...
A man with a burning passion for bulk retailer Costco has received international acclaim for creating an unofficial advert dedicated to the store's beer. Colpeck, a carpenter from California, decided...
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Costco pulls ‘cult favourite’ Kirkland Signature Light Beer from shelves
Famous for costing only $22 (£17.40) for a 48 pack, coming out at less than $0.50 per can, the beer will not be sold in Costco anymore. According to a report on in The Takeout on 12 December, the beer...
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Kweichow Moutai works with Costco to curb speculators
Cut price Kweichow Moutai twice drew enormous flocks of people to the new Costco shop in Shanghai before this year's Mid-Autumn festival and the brand thinks allocations through the outlet could help...
View ArticleCostco’s wildly popular wine advent calendar returns for 2021
Death, taxes and Costco's ridiculously popular wine advent calendar causing an absolute avalanche of anticipation: these are the three certainties of the world we occupy. And, as autumn draws ever...
View ArticleCostco’s beer advent calendar is back for 2021
Hot on the heels of the announcement that the wholesaler's wine advent calendar is returning, Costco's beer advent calendar is also returning to stores – here's what's inside. Every year, customers and...
View ArticleCostco’s gin advent calendar returns for 2021
In case you're still on the fence about just which boozy advent calendar is the best bet this year, Costco has a gin advent calendar returning for 2021, and there are some real treats inside. After...
View ArticleCostco is now selling light up Christmas baubles filled with gin liqueur
It's not every day you find a Christmas decoration that both lights up and is filled with booze. But that's exactly what Costco's latest offering provides; a light up Christmas bauble filled with a...
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Costco offers refunds for bad tasting vodka
Membership-only multinational retail giant Costco has announced that it will be refunding customers for certain batches of Kirkland Signature American Vodka that did not meet its "quality...
View ArticleScreaming Eagle found in Costco
One surprised customer has found a bottle of the cult Napa brand Screaming Eagle in their local branch of Costco in America. A social media post of the bottle was placed on a subreddit of the...
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