TALES OF THE COCKTAIL ANNOUNCES THE OFFICIAL COCKTAIL OF THE 2009 EVENT

WHAT:
Tales of the Cocktail, the annual culinary and cocktail festival, announces the winning bartender and recipe of their annual Cocktail Competition to determine the “official cocktail” of the event.

Tales of the Cocktail in partnership with Culinary Concierge Magazine and CocktailTimes.com invited bartenders to submit a winning recipe for the Official Cocktail Competition of the 7th Annual Tales of the Cocktail.

For our seventh anniversary, we stirred things up with our annual cocktail competition and asked bartenders to create a julep that we can use as our official cocktail at this year’s event.

Originally, the term julep would have been used to refer to a medicinal potion, but in the American South it was used to refer to a heavily iced beverage of some type of spirit, sugar and mint.

Today, a “mint julep” is usually thought of as that classic drink of the Kentucky Derby, served in its quintessential silver cup. In truth however, a julep can take a variety of forms, and we have found a recipe that would help us illustrate this fact.

Bartenders all over the world have been turning back the clock to rediscover forgotten drinks and recipes with flips, bucks and cups, which are appearing on many menus around the world.

The annual Official Cocktail Competition finals took place 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.


WHEN: Monday, April 20, 2009
2:00 pm (Start Time)


WHERE: Cure
4905 Freret Street
New Orleans, LA 70115