Tales of the Cocktail, the annual culinary and cocktail festival, announced the winning bartender and recipe of their annual Cocktail Competition to determine the “official cocktail” of the event.
Maksym Pazuniak, a mixologist at Rambla and Cure won over the judges with his “Creole Julep”, a balanced and well layered julep featuring Cruzan Single Barrel Estate Rum, Rhum Clement Creole Shrubb, Captain Morgan 100 Proof, Peach Fee Brothers Bitters, Angosutura Bitters, fresh mint and Demerara sugar (pictured).
“The Mint Julep was the drink that put American mixology on the map, the thing that foreigners pointed to when they wanted to say something nice about the rough-and-tumble new nation on the western shore of the Atlantic. And originally, like most American inventions, it allowed for plenty of individuality and improvisation. With this contest, the Julep is back,” said author and cocktail historian David Wondrich.
Maksym’s cocktail will be served throughout Tales of the Cocktail, July 8-12, and will be featured in the summer issue of Culinary Concierge Magazine and on CocktailTimes.com.
The second place cocktail was the “Joie de Julep”, created by Corey Bunnewith of Drinkin. The third place cocktail was the “Ginger Peach Julep”, created by Wayne Curtis, a freelance journalist.
Tales of the Cocktail has also collaborated with The Liquid Muse Virgin Mixology® and Fre Alcohol Removed Wines to offer the festival’s second annual official non-alcoholic cocktail, which is also a Julep. The “Sassy Southern Belle” will be the official non-alcoholic cocktail of Tales of the Cocktail and will be served at several of their signature events.
The annual Official Cocktail Competition finals took place at in April. Judges throughout the process included Author David Wondrich, Mixology Research Engineer Robert Hess, TV Personality Lorin Gaudin, Yuri Kato, Editor of CocktailTimes.com, and Chris Hannah of Arnaud’s French 75 Bar.
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