Category Archives: “Tales of The Cocktail”

Last Night at Tales

The last night at Tales was something that almost seemed like the party scenes in the last Matrix movie.Put 100’s of bartenders/mixologists in on very open plan building, add outstanding cocktails from multiple bars set up in said building, add … Continue reading

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"We Don’t Have Things Like This In The Third World" III

“Tales crowd is doing its best to kill the night and greet the morning” Around 6 Am or so some stripper from a local club (sorry won’t say which) tried selling my English mate some methedrine (his accent marked him … Continue reading

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"We Don’t Have Things Like This In The Third World" II

Eventually ( as the opening was running late) we were all greeted by Charlotte Voisey – Hendricks Gin Ambassador who, even more so than usual , (given the costume and circumstances), looked like a slumming angel . Charlotte , who … Continue reading

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"We Don’t Have Things Like This In The Third World"

Wednesday July 8th Evening – Thursday July 9th Morning “We Don’t Have Things Like This In The Third World “-Dr Rodolfo Fernandez The evening started tamely enough and slowly decayed into another another walking into the dawn, “I swear I … Continue reading

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First Night at Tales – Where All My Troubles Began

This Post was submitted to the to the Blogging Tales crew and never got published there, so I finally decided to publish it here.O.K. The plan sounded reasonable at first blush, get to Tales early ( by noon from the … Continue reading

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Lost Entry from 2008 Tales

Lost Entry from 2008 Tales It’s 6 AM, again yes, we said we wouldn’t do this again, today, whatever it is, we walked into the dawn again, past the night watchmen, even the prostitutes and beggers have called it a … Continue reading

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Ernest Hemingway Memorial Bar Crawl in NOLA Saturday July 21st

Well it all started innocently enough as we always say…..We were at Tales of the Cocktail in New Orleans last week both as a Journalist and for the Ministry of Rum Rum Competition When we heard Absolut was going to … Continue reading

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