{"id":3163,"date":"2015-03-13T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=3163"},"modified":"2015-03-13T14:00:50","modified_gmt":"2015-03-13T14:00:50","slug":"southern-comfort-joins-blood-orange-trend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/southern-comfort-joins-blood-orange-trend\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Comfort joins Blood Orange trend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/?p=2502\" target=\"_blank\">Cointreau liqueur Blood Orange edition<\/a> we have news of a Southern Comfort Blood Orange liqueur &#8211; this will be the Whiskey-flavoured liqueur\u2019s\u00a0first duty free exclusive.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the world\u00a0of citrus fruits, blood orange is quickly emerging as the darling of culinary and mixology enthusiasts. As such, Brown-Forman (owners of Southern Comfort and Jack Daniel&#8217;s) believe the timing is ripe for Southern Comfort \u2013 the venerable whiskey liqueur &#8211; to introduce its latest flavour, Southern Comfort Blood Orange. Southern Comfort Blood Orange will be introduced to the trade at the IAADFS Duty Free Show in Orlando (March 22-26) &#8211; and then onto duty free shelves in the following months.<\/p>\n<p>A perfect blend of unique Southern Comfort flavours, Southern Comfort Blood Orange will be the brand\u2019s first Global Travel Retail (GTR) exclusive flavour, with the World Duty Free Group having exclusivity to the new product for a three-month window (May \u2013 July). Other duty free outlets around the world will begin carrying Southern Comfort Blood Orange in August, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>Using the slogan, \u201cGrab an Orange by The Bottle,\u201d Southern Comfort Blood Orange is being touted as the perfect drink for sun-soaked summer vacations. Promotional activities will include sampling of key serves at airports, on ferries and at other vacation transportation hubs around the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSouthern Comfort Blood Orange has outstanding flavour and as such is great for cocktails or simply enjoyed over ice,\u201d explained Jeannine Wise, GTR marketing director for Brown-Forman.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Track down the latest fine wines and spirits in duty free along your whole journey with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\">www.dutyfreehunter.com<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hot on the heels of the Cointreau liqueur Blood Orange edition we have news of a Southern Comfort Blood Orange liqueur &#8211; this will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[40,308,309,69,39,281,222,42,307,259,216,103,273],"class_list":["post-3163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-airport","tag-blood-orange","tag-cocktail","tag-duty-free","tag-dutyfree","tag-iaadfs","tag-liqueur","tag-shopping","tag-southern-comfort","tag-tax-free","tag-travel-retail","tag-whisky","tag-world-duty-free"],"acf":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dutyfreehunter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}