**About the Judges**
MICHELE LOMBARDI
HEAD MIXOLOGIST AT THE RITZ LONDON
Michele began his career making cocktails in the nightlife industry in his hometown. After some bartending courses, his passion for the job definitely took over. After some experience around the region Puglia, Italy, he moved to Rome but the dream was London which is “the Mecca” for every bartender who loves this job. Thanks to one of his old friend and colleague Nicola Paterno (Head Bartender in one of the coolest bars in Singapore), he had the opportunity to start as bar supervisor for Dirty Martini. After that, he joined Aqua Shard and City Social, which really took his skill to the next level. Now, Michele creates amazing cocktail concoctions for the Ritz Hotel.
‘I always take inspiration from classic cocktails, they’re my bible and I’m really a classic cocktail lover. I start from there and I like to play around with merging our contemporary techniques to create something new and unique’
ALI ALI
BAR MANAGER AT SPEAKEASY
Ali started his hospitality career as a barista and found his passion for coffee and good spirits.
With after just a few years of hospitality experience Ali was invited to United Kingdom to be a part of the opening team of Oriole bar in London. After less than a year Oriole was awarded Best New International Cocktail Bar for 2016, Spirited Awards and nominated as a one of the 50 Best Bars in the world and runner up for Most Stylish Bar at the Time Out bar awards.
His passion for design takes a huge part of his drinks development, creating bespoke glassware and garnishes. He specialises in rare and unusual products and ingredients. He has conducted seminars and bar shows around Europe ,Russia and China.
At the moment he is working with a small independent distillery and spirits company and conducting bar team trainings around Europe and Australia.
ERIC ZWIEBEL
DIRECTOR OF WINE AT THE SAMLING HOTEL
My name is Eric Zwiebel and I have been the Executive Head Sommelier here at Summer Lodge since July 2004.
Born in Alsace, I began my wine career early on by helping my parents in their restaurant, before working as Sommelier for 5 years in Paris for many Stars Restaurant. Following this, he decided to move to England 1997 to broaden my knowledge of the many different wine regions and to take courses offered by the Court of Master Sommeliers. Two years later, in 2001, Zwiebel achieved his MS qualification.
**About London Spirits Competitions**
The London Spirits Competition looks to recognize, reward and help promote spirits brands that have successfully been created to identify with and target a specific spirits drinker. For any spirits brand to earn its place on a retailer’s shelf or a restaurant’s spirits list - and then vitally stay there - they need to be marketable and consumer-driven and not just produced in the general hope it can find enough people willing to sell and buy it.
That is why the London Spirits Competition is different. It will single out and shine the spotlight on those spirits brands that consumers really want to buy and have a clear market value for trade buyers.
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**About the Organizers : Beverage Trade Network**
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