Drink up, Manchester, NH
Tuesday, August 10, 2010 at 8:47AM I like bourbon. And Scotch. And, well, most anything of quality in the whiskey family. But I have never, in my five plus years of patronizing New Hampshire state liquor stores, purchased what I have been informed is the best selling "spirit item" in all four Manchester, NH, liquor stores:
Yes, according to Tony Burns, Assistant Director for Store Operations for the New Hampshire Liquor Commission, the number one selling spirit here in the Queen City is Captain Morgan, specifically a 1.75 liter bottle of said spiced run. I don't know what I would have imagined to be the best selling item, but it certainly was not that.
No matter which of the four area liquor stores at which we shop, we Mancunians also have similar wine tastes, with the best-selling wine at all four stores bein