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Gwydion Stone, Paul Clarke and Jim Meehan did a super seminar on Absinthe. All facts, no hype and some thoughtful insights for where the category might be going. Gwydion gave a very clear history of how the product's renaissance in the U.S. came about. Check out...

A morning visit to Cafe du Monde for Cafe au Lait and Beignets and then it was back to work. Great presentation by Stephen Beaumont on beer cocktails. Certainly a category we've heard a lot of talk about but Steve did a great job of presenting the category in an...

TOTC has taken over New Orleans. Hundreds of attendees fanned out across the city for specially prepared dinners matched course for course with cocktails. Sam and I ate at the Palace Café hosted by Paul Clarke of Cocktail Chronicles Jim Meehan of PDT in NY. We took...

I finally made it to a seminar…Latino Libations presented by Tony Abou-Ganim. Always an entertaining presentation, Tony was helped by some fortuitous finds in the audience that almost upstaged the master. Aided by the able talents of Diego Loret de Mola, Tony gave an...

I landed and dashed to the Monteleone to catch the end of Jamie Boudreau’s Molecular Mixology seminar, but never made it. Ran into Cort Kinker, Marissa Frisina and Shawn Kelley of Pernod Ricard, Francesco Lafranconi mixologist extraordinaire for Southern Wine and...

Wow. What a concept. This is one of the most unusual industry get togethers I’ve ever been at particularly because it’s such an interesting mix of attendees…brand owners, distributors and assorted other industry folk were complemented by a ton of bartenders (according...

I'll be in New Orleans the rest of this week to attend Tales of the Cocktail. I've heard a lot about it and it seems there's a BUNCH of folks we know going. So if you're reading this and will be there...please reach out and say hi...and let's have a drink!

Drinks Business Magazine, one of our sponsors for the U.S. Drinks Conference interviewed me at the LIWF/Distil show in London. Here's the link to the clip http://www.drinksbusinesstv.com/index.php?option=com_drinkstvarchive&id=6781&Itemid=301. (FYI the sound...