Jean Trinh, co-founder of Alquímico in Cartagena, Colombia, has received the 2022 Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award. This award is voted for by the bartenders on this 12 months’s checklist of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars, who have been requested to call one peer who pushes the bounds of what it means to be an ideal bartender.
The award goes to a character who made a major impression within the world bar sector over the voting interval and recognises their dedication to the worldwide group in that point. That is the second of two particular awards to be introduced forward of the stay awards ceremony on Tuesday, October 4, 2022 in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2022 marks the primary time the illustrious occasion has been held outdoors London since its 2009 inception. The ceremony will unite the worldwide bar group in recognition of the most effective bars on the planet.
“We’re delighted to announce Jean Trinh because the winner of this 12 months’s Altos Bartenders’ Bartender,” stated Mark Sansom, Content material Director for The World’s 50 Greatest Bars. “From his strikingly creative method to the artwork of cocktail making to his forward-thinking perspective in the direction of sustainability and his unerring dedication to his group and his group, Jean’s spirit rings true to every of the important thing tenets of what makes a winner of the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award.”
French with Vietnamese heritage, Trinh was born into hospitality, rising up in his mother and father’ eating places. In 2013, his journey led him to Cartagena de Indias and the indelible expertise of Colombian hospitality, opening his first pop-up bar simply six months later. Inside three years, he established Alquímico in a three-storey mansion within the historic coronary heart of the town.
Identified for serving greater than 850 visitors day by day, Alquímico gives three distinctive ideas – La Mansión, El Balcónm and Terraza – every with their very own cocktail menu. All through the bar, Trinh champions the variety and produce of his adopted residence, looking the nation for brand spanking new producers and craftspeople to permit him to place sustainability on the coronary heart of each determination he makes.
In 2018, Alquímico invested in a 25 acre farm in rural Colombia to sustainably and organically develop the freshest produce for the high-volume cocktail program. In the course of the world pandemic, within the face of an entire shutdown, Trinh led his group #FromTheBarToTheFarm, housing his bartenders and their households and collaborating with native small producers and farmers to study and develop sustainable agricultural practices. Along with promoting their natural produce, they donated meals baskets to the poor, constructed an apiary to scale back the bar’s reliance on sugar, reforested native bushes and created an academic house for the native farming group in addition to colleagues throughout the business that wished to study extra.
In 2020, Alquímico joined the checklist of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars at No.47, the primary Colombian bar ever to function. In the identical 12 months, they have been additionally the primary bar from Latin America to be awarded the Ketel One Sustainable Bar Award.
On profitable the award, Trinh says: “It’s such an honour to be named Altos Bartenders’ Bartender by the wonderful folks of my business. When the pandemic struck, we have been compelled to re-evaluate every thing about how we lived and labored collectively however I’m so happy with the achievements of my group by means of this time. Collectively we now have constructed a stronger group and a extra sustainable Alquímico, which I hope will proceed to encourage sustainable practices all over the world. I’m so grateful to obtain this recognition from my friends after the rollercoaster we now have all been on for the previous few years and I hope to welcome all of them to Alquímico to share our drinks and our concepts within the years to return.”
Carlos Andres Ramirez, Head of World Advocacy and PR for Altos Tequila, says: “Supporting the group of bartenders has been a pillar for Altos Tequila since its creation in 2010. Twelve years on,we proceed to take a position on this assist by way of the Tahona Society Competitors initiative, the primary sustainable tasks competitors. From the Altos Tequila and Tahona Society household we wish to congratulate our pal from Alquímico, Jean Trinh, for profitable the Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award as a part of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2022.”
The Altos Bartenders’ Bartender Award was launched to The World’s 50 Greatest Bars in 2017 and the inaugural winner was Iain Griffiths of Dandelyan. Joe Schofield, of the just lately opened Schofield’s Bar in Manchester, UK, received in 2018; Monica Berg of Tayēr + Elementary, London, in 2019; Renato ‘Tato’ Giovannoni, of Florería Atlántico, Buenos Aires, in 2020 and Lynnette Marrero of Llama Inn, New York, in 2021.
The countdown of the checklist of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars 2022 might be broadcast stay to a worldwide viewers who usually are not capable of attend in particular person. Bars and cocktail lovers are invited to affix by means of The World’s 50 Greatest Bars Fb web page and 50 Greatest Bars TV channel on YouTube.
