Inner Circle Rum Green Dot was recently named ‘Spirit of the Year’ at the 2010 World-Spirits Awards held in Klagenfurt, Austria. 65 participants from 24 nations took part in the festival with spirits including Cognac, Scotch, Gin and rum.
Capturing the imagination of Australia’s bartenders in its inaugural year, Club Suntory are pleased to announce Ultrapour’s Professional bartending competition is back in full swing in 2010.
Do you have what it takes to be crowned Australia’s Bartender of the Year? Well it’s time to step up to the plate because the Bartender Magazine Bartender of the Year Competition is coming around once more.
For more than 40 years now, Les Vergers Boiron has been selecting and carefully processing the best fruit grown in the finest regions around the world specifically for the most demanding professionals.
The past week has seen 45 bartenders put through their paces at the annual Smirnoff Black Copper Cup Semi Finals. Held across Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney, this year’s educational component was hosted by Agusti Vidal; a freelance perfume consultant from Spain.
I’m over halfway through the Parched March odyssey now, and people often ask me how I feel. Answer: wonderful!
While it’s certainly an amazing journey, 30 Bars in 30 Days is a goal easily achieved within a healthy, balanced lifestyle. We’ve been averaging two bars on our nights out, eating well on the way and during the day I’ve found my energy for exercise – yoga, running, dog walking and swimming – has remained undiminished.
Here’s what Parched March is about: friends around a table, nursing favourite cocktails, swapping stories, savouring tastes and aromas, welcomed by warm hosts and soothed by music.
Since Barry Chalmers move from Brisbane to Sydney, Jay Lambert has joined the Behind Bars team and taken over the role of RESERVE Brand Ambassador for Queensland.
Diageo Australia today announced it will secure the marketing and distribution rights to tequila brand Jose Cuervo in Australia, officially effective 1 April 2010.
After the success of the Behind Bars Trivia in 2008, you’ll be pleased to hear that it’s making a return in 2010 – bigger, badder and better than ever! In conjunction with Diageo’s Alchemy, trivia heats will be hosted around the country, culminating with a final in September in Sydney during Sydney BarShow Week.
Le Shack must have the luck of the Irish after managing to pick up three…
When we started our 30 Bars in 30 Days odyssey, we were expecting great drinks and bars. But Parched March is much more than that. So far, it’s been a leisurely stroll through life’s finer pursuits: conversation, friendships, food, music, stories, ideas, interesting strangers, curios, history, philosophy and even a smattering of science. And a giant bull’s head..