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Welcome to the home of the Liquid Insights Tour, Southern Glazer’s online education hub for on-premise beverage innovation

Frequently asked questions

The Liquid Insights Tour is an extensive, coast-to-coast educational initiative that explores and identifies the latest trends in mixology and wine. The Tour travels to six cities in the U.S. and visits a wide variety of bars, hotels, restaurants, and other “on-premise” venues. The tour explores innovations driven by a new generation of diverse bartenders, as well as on-premise operators post-COVID recovery, to offer unique insights to share with the Company’s sales consultants and industry partners.

 

The Tour is a follow-up from 2022 where Southern Glazer’s identified 10 key trends across cocktails and wine for concepts to consider within their programs – and will look to see what trends are still strong, accelerating, fading, or emerging. Leading the tour once again is Brian Masilionis, Senior Director, Customer Development, National Accounts On Premise.

This year’s tour will include visits to new markets including Tampa, Florida, Austin, Texas, Portland, Oregon, and Denver, Colorado, and will return to the cities of Los Angeles, California and New York City, New York which were visited during the initial 2022 tour.

Brian Masilionis, Senior Director, Customer Development, National Accounts On Premise is partnering with Southern Glazer’s mixologists and market-level wine experts to identify restaurants, bars and hotels to visit in each city. Locations will include a mix of casual and polished casual concepts, find dining concepts, and cocktail bars, including locations in a hotel or experiential setting.

In 2022, over the course of 11 days, the team visited 83 restaurants and bars and sampled 431 drinks across Houston, Kansas City, New York, Las Vegas, Chicago and Los Angeles. It identified 10 trends in three distinct categories: Cocktail innovation, wine and execution and presentation trends. Click here to read about the full list of trends.

Pour through our findings

The Liquid Insights Tour blog

Travel coast-to-coast on the Liquid Insights Tour to see how the most innovative bars and restaurants are evolving, influenced by a new generation of diverse bartenders.

Liquid Insights in Chicago

Finding unique wines and cocktails was a breeze in the Windy City.

Liquid Insights in Los Angeles

From world-class surf spots to Hollywood backlots, the real stars were the movers and shakers behind the coolest Los Angeles bars.

Liquid Insights in New York

After being hit hard by the pandemic, it’s clear the restaurant and bar scene in the concrete jungle is back.

Liquid Insights in Las Vegas

Our team went “all in” to find the latest wine and cocktail trends both on and off The Strip.

Liquid Insights in Kansas City

Don’t underestimate this mid-size city where hospitality innovation is alive and well in the Heart of America.

Liquid Insights in Houston

International wine lists and mixology inspirations from around the globe made Houston a hotbed of diversity and innovation.

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Liquid Insights Tour in the press

From print to podcast, people are talking about the Liquid Insights Tour.