Johannesburg is a city that probably doesn’t feature very high on many travel bucket lists – but things are changing! Times Luxx has tipped it as one of Africa’s “buzziest cities” in their latest issue and Forbes magazine recently voted it one of the “12 coolest neighbourhoods around the World” – beating the likes of
Who would think the Greek rhetorician Hermogenes might have been the Brand Ambassador of Pisco Waqar? He wrote of clarity, brilliance, gravity, beauty, distinctness, sweetness and subtlety. All the same rhetoric that Brand Ambassador Javiera Lorenzini Raty uses to describe Pisco Waqar. She should know, as she is also completing a PHD on Hermogenes’ influence
Six months into their jobs, our guests knew the corporate world was just not for them. Sisters Joyce and Raissa de Haas were meant for something else. As students, they didn’t have a taste for pure spirits so they experimented with making their own syrups – mixing fruits and spices to create cocktails that they
Some people are born entrepreneurs and our guest today was one of them. Tom Tuke-Hastings has been working for himself since he was a lad at prep school in Oxfordshire. Busy selling all manner of things to his willing peers, from balsa airplanes to collectible cards to classic fountain pens, Tom got his sales experience
Bartender, whisky aficionado, and UK winner of the 2017 Chivas Masters Cocktail Competition, Rhys Wilson, has joined Chivas as Global Brand Ambassador. Rhys steps in to a leading role where he will share his passion for Scotch whisky on the global stage and bring to life Chivas’ belief that blended is better, in life and
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Original Sin’s Thomas Loosli Takes Home Top Prize at Ketel One Vodka Copper to Canvas Cocktail Competition
Diageo Reserve’s premium vodka brand Ketel One Vodka has crowned Thomas Loosli from Original Sin as the winner of the Copper to Canvas cocktail competition. Ketel One Vodka, a founding partner of Sarabande: The Lee Alexander McQueen Foundation, challenged seven bartenders to create a cocktail inspired by artwork from artists-in-residence at Sarabande Studios. Named after