Winner of UK Monin Cup to compete atop the Eiffel Tower

The new look Chambord has given up its crown

This year will see Cellar Trends put some serious welly behind its new range of cocktail mixes, purées and syrups, Finest Call.

The complete-o Mojito: the last word in customised Mojitos

The film Cocktail is 20 years young this year, and with so many kids now wearing clothes straight out of the 80s, it seemed the perfect time for Tom Sandham to re-visit the movie that has inspired a generation of bartenders

This summer, the great and good of the bar world descended on New Orleans for the world’s largest libatory festival: Tales of the Cocktail. Alice Lascelles packed a spare liver and joined the throng...

What makes Tony Conigliaro’s cocktails tick? Alice Lascelles took a group of inquisitive bartenders, armed with ideas, to his new cocktail lab to find out...

Tequila dealer: The ultimate tequila cocktails

Scented, flavoursome and adorned with beautiful flowers, herbs are an essential ingredient for any cocktail list this summer. Alice Lascelles digs deep...

Jim Meehan, co-owner of New York’s cult hot-dog-stand-turned- cocktail-bar PDT, has just picked up Tales of the Cocktail gongs for Best American Bartender and World’s Best Cocktail Bar in New Orleans. Alice Lascelles asks the man from Please Don’t Tell to Please Tell All...

All too often an afterthought, syrups have a huge impact on a cocktail’s appearance and its taste. Clinton Cawood joins a team of bartenders for a look at the sweeter side

Bartenders today are blessed with an array of witty, wise – and eminently collectible – contemporary and vintage cocktail books to choose from. Tom Innes takes a look...