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London – 13 June 2024
1. Pull out agave spirits on a bar shelf
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Uresti Silva, UK Brand Ambassador, The Lost Explorer Mezcal:
"Nine years ago I came to London, I’m from Mexico and it was very hard to find a cocktail with tequila apart from a margarita. And nowadays there’s some amazing bars that they just cover their own creations."
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Soddu, co-founder Amaro bar:
"I believe we just started to experiment with mezcal and tequila just a few years ago. You know, at the beginning there were only classic cocktails. But now we’re understanding that there are so many variations of those spirits that you can almost swap anything."
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London – 18 June 2024
4. Wide Bobby Hiddleston, co-founder of Swift
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Bobby Hiddleston, co-founder of Swift:
"10 years ago I wouldn’t have been able to sell a mezcal cocktail to the general populous, it would be a really, really difficult sell and now it’s really common for people to request mezcal and things and that is absolutely off the shoulders of good quality tequila."
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London – 13 June 2024
6. Zoom in Alan Uresti Silva
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Uresti Silva, UK Brand Ambassador, The Lost Explorer Mezcal:
"I would replace a classic whiskey drink with an extra anejo or an anejo that brings these oak elements. But also, if you want something fresh, I would go for a blanco which has this, savory vegetal notes that can balance very well or can replace a gin or even vodka. Something quite light, refreshing. That would be my advice for tequila. For mezcaI, I think it depends always in the level of smokiness. So if you have a very smoky mezcal I will go for, like, whiskey drinks to replace it with and if you have a light smoke, a bit more like elegant, more herbaceous or more herbal mescal, I will go for maybe replace it with – instead of gin – something more light that it doesn’t lose the complexity of the spirit in the cocktail. And you still have like a nice, softer smokiness."
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London – 18 June 2024
8. Bobby Hiddleston makes a Nightingale cocktail at Swift Shoreditch
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Bobby Hiddleston, co-founder of Swift:
"We want to basically make a tequila martini. And people have done it before. And the key to it is just they need a little kind of bolstering the sweetness to do it. You can’t just keep it as dry as you want a dry gin martini or dry vodka martini. So a little bit of sweetness in there. So we find using the blanco vermouth rather than a dry vermouth carries the flavor really well, and we just added a couple of little accessorizing things – orange bitters, almonds as well."
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London – 13 June 2024
10. Bar manager Ben Guillou makes a Mezcal Negoni at Hacha Brixton
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Alan Uresti Silva, UK Brand Ambassador, The Lost Explorer Mezcal:
"Traditionally it’s like a gin, a London dry. So in mescal you have a lot of different tasting notes, like some green elements, certain botanicals, some mezcals have like these sort of jalapeno, juniper, nose or mouthfeel. So, yeah, you can replace that element, but also you have like a layer of a smokiness. So the complexity sort of elevates."
ASSOCIATED PRESS
London – 18 June 2024
12. Abdelrakhman Nadym – bartender at Bar de Cavita – makes a Mezcal Espresso Martini
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Adriana Cavita , chef Patron and co-founder Cavita restaurant:
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London – 13 June 2024
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Elon Soddu, co-founder Amaro bar:
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