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DRINKS INTERNATIONAL JANUARY 2016
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or maybe a bartender’s recommendation.
It’s possible that trending brands also feature as best sellers in a given category. But more likely, they are smaller operators that aren’t the hulking front men of large portfolios and have become on-trend in spite of an inferior inability to incentivise. Before we get into the category champions, we start with cross-category top 10s. Bartenders’ Choice is one for the purists as it is untouched by the meddling hand of profitability or the whim of consumer trend.
SURVEYED BARS BY REGION
It’s here we see what bartenders themselves prize most. We also have an overall Best-Selling Brands and overall Top Trending lists, which too pit brands across the spirits spectrum, rather than category by category. And if you ever wondered what brands make the best cocktails, we take you through a few classic serves for each spirit. Gin is the spirit of choice at the world’s best bars, but we run down the top 10 to see which others are performing well.
EUROPE AMERICA NORTH ASIA AUSTRALASIA AMERICA LATIN MIDDLE EAST AFRICA & 57% 16% 13% 9% 3% 2%
Then we finish up with The World’s 50 Best-Selling Classics. We asked our 100 bars to rank their top 10 best sellers, we applied a weighting, and created a list of the 50 presently popular classics. While there are a good few surprises among these pages, some of the lists have predictable outcomes. We take the view that even if this report confirms what is generally suspected, evidence is always better than assumptions and anecdotes. Independent, unsponsored and impartial, and compiled using a robust methodology, we feel this is the sort of research that makes the drinks industry a better-informed place.
If you ever
wondered what brands make the best cocktails, we take you through a few classic serves for each spirit
WORLD’S 50 BEST BARS MEMBERS
>Nightjar 3rd in 2015 >Employees Only 4th >American Bar 5th >Baxter Inn 6th >Connaught 9th >Broken Shaker 14th >Canon 15th >Buck & Breck 16th >Imperial Craft 17th >Lobster Bar 18th >Le Lion Bar de Paris 19th >Licoreria Limantour 20th > The Jerry Thomas Project 21st
>The Clumsies 22nd >Maison Premiere 23rd >Aviary 29th >Tales & Spirits 30th >Smuggler’s Cove 31st >Delicatessen 32nd >Door 74 33rd >Ruby 34th >PDT 37th >Quinary 39th >Trick Dog 40th >69 Colebrooke Row 41st >Nottingham Forest 46th >Lost + Found 48th >Little Red Door 49th
FORMER MEMBERS
>Drink >Hemingway Bar >Floreria Atlantico > Worship Street Whistling Shop
>Shady Pines Saloon >Papa Doble >Pouring Ribbons >Goldene Bar >Cure >Boadas
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