All the 2022 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards Winners
The Spirited Awards recognize bars, products, beverage professionals, media outlets, and journalists for their work in the industry.
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Tales of the Cocktail 2020 Kicks Off September 21
Tales of the Cocktail is going digital in 2020. The annual conference kicks off September 21.
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Tales of the Cocktail 2019: Just the Highlights
Throughout the festival, we attended dozens of different events. But the below five-pack represents some of our favorite highlights from Tales 2019.
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New Funding and the Next Chapter for Colorado’s Montanya Rum
Karen Hoskin, flush with new investment funding, is poised to write the next chapter for her award-winning rum.
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Your 2019 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards Winners
Tales of the Cocktail 2019 is in the books, and the New Orleans-based cocktail festival capped things off with the 13th annual Spirited Awards.
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Tales of the Cocktail Heads to Puerto Rico in 2019
Tales on Tour’s 2019 host city is San Juan, Puerto Rico, home to plenty of rum and great bars.
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All the 2018 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards Winners, Right Here
Another Tales of the Cocktail is in the books, and this year’s festival capped off a week of seminars, events, tastings, and parties with the 12th annual Spirited Awards, which recognizes the best bars, people, and products in the business.
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Making Bitters with Auchentoshan
As the rain poured down on an otherwise lovely afternoon in the Big Easy, a small group of us dipped into the fascinating New Orleans Pharmacy Museum to learn more about bitters and single malt scotch. It was a fitting…
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Highlights from Tales of the Cocktail 2016
Another Tales of the Cocktail is in the books, and with it, another productive week spent in New Orleans attending seminars, tasting spirits, meeting distillers and enjoying enough revelry to make us feel fortunate this only happens once per year….
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All the Winners at the 2016 Tales of the Cocktail Spirited Awards
The 10th Annual Spirited Awards capped off another great Tales of the Cocktail, as an impressive panel of industry experts crowned winners in categories spanning bars, bartenders, new products and cocktail writing. London and San Francisco put up particularly strong…
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A Spirited Dinner with Mezcal El Silencio
One of our favorite activities at Tales of the Cocktail is attending a spirited dinner. Neither as festive as the brand-sponsored parties nor as hectic as the tasting rooms, a spirited dinner is typically a relaxed affair that allows you…
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Brands Go Big at Tales of the Cocktail
Another Tales of the Cocktail is in the books, and with it: another bout of day drinking, spirited dinners, all-out fetes and just the right amount of regret. This year witnessed a slew of larger-than-life bashes put on by notable…
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Angostura Bitters Cocktails at Tales of the Cocktail
Going through our notes of good cocktails we sampled at Tales of the Cocktail led us to a couple we consumed at the Angostura Bitters U.S. Cocktail Challenge. After prior competitions whittled the contestants down to five bartenders, the finalists competed…
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The Bare Knuckle Bar Fight at Tales of the Cocktail
One of the most anticipated events at this year’s Tales of the Cocktail was the Bare Knuckle Bar Fight, which pitted seven bars against in each other in a drinks slinging, no-holds-barred fight to the death. Sort of. It was…
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Scenes from the William Grant & Sons Party at Tales of the Cocktail
I think it’s fitting that we’re posting this story one week following the William Grant & Sons party at Tales of the Cocktail. I guess I needed that much time to recover and look back at this vivid mélange of…
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The Big Winners at Tales of the Cocktail
We’re in wrap-up mode following the 11th annual Tales of the Cocktail. And some of the biggest news from the festival happens each year at the Spirited Awards, in which trophies are presented in categories ranging from best bar and…
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Tales of the Cocktail: Bottled Carbonated Cocktails
Tales of the Cocktail just wrapped up, and we’re still recuperating from the haze of parties, seminars, tasting rooms and New Orleans in general. While nights consisted of events and some rather bacchanalian revelry, during the day we attended as…
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Tales of the Cocktail Preview Podcast
Tales of the Cocktail, that New Orleans-based festival celebrating all that’s good in the world of drinks, begins this Wednesday, July 17th. We’ll be on the front lines, attending seminars, attending parties and wandering around the Monteleone with Sazeracs in…
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2012 Tales of the Cocktail: News and Notes
The 10th annual Tales of the Cocktail wrapped up last week, and with it, five days of liquor-fueled product launches, announcements, events and other revelry. Below, we highlight some of our favorite moments from New Orleans. Tales of the Cocktail…
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This week marks the second Tales of the Cocktail Texas Tour, which brings a festival preview to cocktail bars in Dallas, Austin, Houston and San Antonio. This time around we’ll be celebrating with a toast of Herbsaint cocktails and a…
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