Coolest cocktail makers showdown for Melbourne Food and Wine Festival

The fine art of cocktail making will be put on display when makers go head-to-head in a boozy showdown for the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival. Here’s how to get tickets.

Melbourne Food Wine Festival event will showcase innovative cocktails at Eau de Vie. Assistant Venue Manager Alex Woodmass works up a treat behind the bar. Picture: Tony Gough

Move over martini, Melbourne’s coolest cocktail makers are putting new twists on old classics.

Taking inspiration from the great cocktail bars of the world and their iconic creations, the Eau-de-Vie team is inviting some of the best makers in the biz to join them in an old v new cocktail showdown where old-school classics are given contemporary twists.

Eau de Vie assistant venue manager Alex Woodmass whips up a Le Dauphine. Picture: Tony Gough

As part of the Melbourne Food and Wine Festival in March, Orlando Marzo – the world’s best bartender in 2018 – and Alex Boon (World Class Bartender Australia Winner 2019) will join Eau-de-Vie’s Alex Woodmass and Greg Sanderson in an afternoon of liquid history.

They’ll shake and stir up a storm with classic cocktails and new wave interpretations – perhaps a fiery take on an old fashioned, or a liquid nitrogen Italian zabaione twist on an espresso martini.

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It promises to be an afternoon of fun for cocktail lovers and bar geeks alike.

Renaissance makers v avant-garde shakers is at Eau-de-Vie on March 21. For info and tickets: MFWF.com.au