Spirits sales in the US – August 2023 – data

Once a month, the National Alcohol Beverage Control Association releases data covering spirits sales in the Control States of the US. Here’s a look at the numbers for August. Brandy & Cognac's challenging year continues - and indeed, deteriorated in August - with the month's near-21% fall in year-on-year value sales representing the category's worst performance in the year so far. Meanwhile, spirits-based RTDs continue to do well - +22.4% by value in August - albeit less impressively than earlier in the year. Also retaining its growth in 2023 is American whiskey, where A