Tales of the Cocktail 2011 Official Cocktail Winner Annouced

TALES OF THE COCKTAIL® ANNOUNCES RANGOON GIN FIZZ AS OFFICIAL COCKTAIL OF THE 2011 FESTIVAL

Rangoon Gin Fizz will make its debut at the Native Spirits Viewing Party on April 21 and will be featured throughout Tales of the Cocktail® 2011.
Every year Tales of the Cocktail® challenges the international cocktail community to reinterpret one classic cocktail [...]

Tales of the Cocktail 2011 tickets on SALE!!!

TALES OF THE COCKTAIL® 2011 TICKETS ON SALE NOW

Spirited tickets and special packages can be purchased online at www.TalesoftheCocktail.com.

NEW ORLEANS, LA—March 25, 2011 – Now in its ninth year, Tales of the Cocktail® returns with another round of seminars, events, competitions, tastings, dinner pairings, workshops and more that are sure to shake up [...]

That’ll do, pig…that’ll do.

Can that seriously be the end? Where did all the time go? Oh yeah, we spent it all in bars.
And so it came to pass that New Orleans had to say a fond farewell to Vancouver. But it was quite the holiday romance. I’m sure they’ll stay in touch.
The finale came at Chambar, where a [...]

Vancouver-New Orleans-London

Monday passed in a whirlwind, but the beginning of the end took place where (for me, at least) that day had begun – in New Orleans.
The swanky halls of the Vancouver Club came as close as they’ve ever been to Bourbon Street, as the Mardi Gras spirit was briefly revived. Beads, masks and, of course, [...]

Tai’d up

Jeff Berry brings on the paternity test, a bit like an episode of Maury but for cocktails. In a scandalous twist, there are three potential fathers laying claim to the Mai Tai (pronounced May-tay. Yes, you’ve been saying it wrong.)
Despite his self-admittedly dated references, Mr Berry talks the audience through the suburban dominance of Tiki [...]

Ice cold in ‘couver

Now, I don’t know her personally, so there’s not a chance I’m ever going to suggest that Charlotte Voisey is an Ice Queen, except to say that she knows her frozen onions when talking about the history of solid H2O.
She explained how Frederick Tudor bought ice to the tropical places that needed it most and [...]

A drop of NOLA in Vancouver

Henry C Ramos may have had 30 shaking boys to shake his famous gin fizzes, but Chris McMillian and Philip Greene had around ten times that number this morning as – halfway through their Famous New Orleans Cocktails seminar – the audience were asked to take up their shakers and show [...]

The night before the morning after (2)

And so to the Black and White Ball. Arriving from the Aquarium via trolley, the TOTC crowd were welcomed by stylish hosts to the Official Opening Party of TOTC:V.
Not one, not two, not five, but FOUR cocktails were lined up for general delectation, all using Gibson’s Fine Canadian Whisky: The Dalhousie, [...]

The night before the morning after

When someone mentions a reception and beluga, I usually think of caviar canapes, but the CAPB welcomed TOTC to the Vancouver Aquarium to have drinks overseen by the charming Beluga Whales, who swam quietly in their tanks as the mixing began.
Three great cocktails awaited the guests:
Facing East from Danielle Tatarin (Keefer) and [...]

Overheard at TOTC:V

“That’s a good drink. In that it doesn’t taste like booze.”

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