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American, Irish and Canadian whiskies struggled to grow in March but Scotch was up<\/p>\nScotch, gin and Tequila grew their volumes in US monopoly states last month as whisky from Canada and Ireland struggled.<\/p>\n
American, Irish and Canadian whiskies struggled to grow in March but Scotch was up<\/p>\n
Volume sales of Scotch whisky rebounded in February<\/a>, recording its second month in growth for March across 18 US control states.<\/p>\n According to data from the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association (NABCA), Scotch volumes rose by 11.4% in March, and by 2.2% in value, which it attributed mainly to New Hampshire (up 256.8% in Scotch sales).<\/p>\n The \u2018cocktails\u2019 segment, which includes ready-to-drink (RTD) products, posted the biggest volume and value gain of all spirits categories in March \u2013 skyrocketing by 30.1% in volume and by 28.4% in value.<\/p>\n Other categories that grew last month were cacha\u00e7a (up 12.2%), Tequila (up 1.9%), gin (up 1.6%) and cordials (liqueurs), which rose by 0.8%.<\/p>\n Value-wise, only cacha\u00e7a, cocktails, gin and Scotch increased in March.<\/p>\n The biggest decrease in terms of volume came from the \u2018other imported whisky\u2019 segment, which fell by 10.2% last month.<\/p>\n In terms of whisky, Canadian-made products suffered an 8.8% volume drop while Irish whiskey was down by 5.6% and domestic whiskey dipped by 1% in March.<\/p>\n Total spirits sales across US control states posted an uptick of 1.2% in volume in March, but decreased by 1.6% in value. Revenue was impacted by five additional selling days with two extra selling days in Utah and three more days in Michigan.<\/p>\n For the 12 months to March 2026, spirits volumes across all control states dipped by 1% and by 2.7% in value.<\/p>\n There was a mixed performance state by state when it came to spirits sales. The biggest volume gain came from New Hampshire (up 20.7%), followed by Mississippi (up 11.5%), Wyoming (up 10.6%) and Utah (up 8.3%).<\/p>\n Meanwhile, spirits volume losses were recorded in seven states, including Idaho (down 5.2%), Vermont (down 4.7%), Ohio (down 4.6%), and Oregon (down 4.1%).<\/p>\n In other control state news, Republic National Distributing Company (RNDC) recently agreed to sell its operations in 17 markets<\/a> to Martignetti Companies.<\/p>\n Related news<\/p>\n \n \n
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