What’s new at BCB this year? PL: We have one more day of the show. We were almost sold out last year and we are sold out this year. We expect 14,000 visitors from 70 countries. There are 433 exhibitors, which is up 17% on last year. AW: Day one at BCB is about content for managers and owners. They are an under-served market. It…
Dandelyan’s title of World’s Best Bar will be short lived, as it was announced earlier this week that the Mondrian London hotel bar will soon close, reinventing itself with a new concept and name. Dandelyan took top spot ahead of the 2017 champion American Bar at the Savoy and Manhattan from Singapore. While Nomad Bar from New York and Connaught Bar from London completed the…
Barometer runs over three days from tomorrow (Friday 28 September) until Sunday (30th September) and takes place at CEC Parkovy in Kiev. The 2017 show was one of the largest in the world, attracting 15,000 trade visitors and consumers and serving 35,000 cocktails, according to its organisers. Though purely trade professionals, BCB Berlin has an audience of 12,000. Organisers of Barometer are expecting a double-digit…
Martini, which supported Conigliaro’s event in 2017, launched its own Martini Racing Ciclismo this year. Jacob Briars, global head of advocacy Martini, has explained the decision today. Both statements follow: Tony Conigliaro’s open letter to Martini Global. I created the Bar Termini Milano-Torino bike ride in 2016 to be an event that raised money for the Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital whilst also offering the bartending…
Tell us a little about the history of your city’s drinking culture. Each neighbourhood in Mexico City has different drinks to offer. However, a Michelada, which is basically a lager on ice mixed with lime juice and garnished with a salt, can be found almost anywhere. In upscale clubs you’ll see a lot of vodka and whisky, served in the bottle. Trendy zones, such as…
_________________________________________ UNTIL VERY recently, the centuries-old spirit aquavit was looking every bit its age. Its once-loyal Scandinavian consumers, traditionally enthusiastic meal-time gluggers of this botanical spirit, were dwindling. Aquavit was creaking under the weight of historical decline as producers sat and watched while generation after generation grew more distant and their product less relevant. At Christmas, Easter and national bank holidays,…
What is the drinking tradition in Madrid? Do some sectors of alcohol dominate? Where have people traditionally gone to drink? In Madrid we have a beautiful sentence: “The bars are the first social media in the world.” All the people like to go to bars to drink – cañas (little beers), vermouth, sherry wine, cocktails, gin & tonics etc, but especially to speak to and…
Though this is not the history you’ve read about. It is told through the eyes of women and features essays from the daughters of Che Guevara and Raúl Castro along with Cuban author and archavist Lincoln Cushing. It’s a history book but also a drinks list, each cocktail – created by head bartender Jesse Vida and his team – drawing inspiration and name from the…
> THE CANADIAN WHISKY category is big in volume but not in personality. It has a quiet, unassuming presence in the global drinks industry – known but not renowned, its brands familiar to the eye but not necessarily the palate. Most have it down as ‘easy-drinking’, a term of dubious praise that lives in the same block as ‘approachable’, ‘crowd-pleasing’ and ‘inoffensive’.
Following on from the 2018 final in Mexico City in June, the 2019 final (the date of which is yet to be confirmed) is projected to be the biggest in the competition’s history with 42 finalists heading to Amsterdam for the cocktail competition. The 2019 competition also marks the first time the rum brand’s Añejo Cuatro has been made available for use as an ingredient…
