It’s a conversation you don’t forget in a hurry: Giacomo Giannotti was at work at Paradiso when he was approached by a gentleman who said he loved the bar so much he wanted to open one in Dubai. Though Giannotti had heard similar proposals before, this time his interlocutor was serious. A year later, Paradiso Dubai opened in the Five Luxe hotel. Ibiza followed, and…

This article first appeared in the Drinks International Global Bar Edition which can be read in full here A quarter of a century ago or so, to be reborn the cocktail had to be taken away from the high street and hidden in dark speakeasies with rules and etiquette. A generation of bartenders obsessed about the minute details of the perfect classic and revived long-lost formulae. It’s…