Hey bartenders, enter Cardenxe’s annual bartender contest now and get inventive with Sotol! Deadline April fifteenth.
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This Could twenty ninth, you’re invited to specific the poetry of this mystical Mexican spirit with Cardenxe’s Annual Bartender Contest.
Cardenxe is a voyage in a bottle. It’s a sotol targeted on reflecting its roots—the land and historical past of its residence in Northern Mexico—transporting you there via each sip. “Cardenxe is an artisanal, terroir-driven sotol on the intersection of artwork and music, produced within the North of Mexico,” says Luigi Ambrosi, co-founder of Cardenxe. “We intention to supply a layered gastronomic expertise with our completely different sotol expressions revealing the identification of their origin and the signature character of their manufacturing fashion.”
By means of Cardenxe’s Annual Bartender Contest, bartenders can dive deep into sotol’s identification—a spirit outlined by its distinct earthiness, a taste profile distinctly outlined by the place it originates. Whereas different well-known Mexican spirits come from the agave plant, sotol comes from Dasylirion, a desert shrub plant that’s actually a part of the asparagacea household. This plant grows wild within the areas of Chihuahua, Durango, and Coahuila.
Within the phrases of Ambrosi, to honor the anniversary of Cardenxe and the historical past of sotol, custom requires a great outdated Mexican standoff. Within the bar trade’s case, meaning an exhilarating bartender’s contest.
This competitors brings collectively expert bartenders with one goal: to get inventive with sotol. Yearly has a theme. Final 12 months, it was ‘Curados’ the Chihuahan customized of infusing sotol. This 12 months, it’s all about terroir.
No, terroir isn’t only for wine. Sotol’s taste profile is closely influenced by the place the Dasylirion plant grows. This 12 months’s competitors theme, Tomando Tierra, provides a chance for bartenders to experiment with every of the three Cardenxe Sotol’s expressions via modern and unique cocktails, highlighting a way of place.
Don’t miss a chance to participate in Cardenxe’s Annual Bartender Contest, with sign-ups open till April fifteenth and the official competitors going down on Could twenty ninth in New York Metropolis.
