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Episode 3 – ELEVATED+LOCAL with Deniseea Head

The Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar journey now comes to its end with the final episode of the season. We now travel to New Orleans, the homeland of jazz and the city where one of the biggest global events in the bar industry takes place, Tales Of The Cocktail. It’s New Orleans that enables another Grand […]

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Millie Tang on being a bartender-photographer 

Whether behind the camera or the bar, Brisbane-based Millie Tang channels her creativity to create art that stands out. She explains how her two passions collide 

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Episode 2 – CLASSIC+MODERN with Takuma Watanabe 

Pairs to New York, one way. The second episode of The Grand Encounter, the exclusive mini-series by Grand Marnier, takes you to the Big Apple, where host Carina Soto Velasquez meets Takuma Watanabe: a movie-enthusiast and thorough researcher, Watanabe opened up his own venue in 2022, Martiny’s in Gramercy, immediately conquering New York through spotless hospitality and […]

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Discover The Grand Encounter: Behind the Bar

It’s not just about the drinks. A bar is the subtle line that slightly separates stories, made of people, experiences, memories and projects. It’s where cocktails are silent witnesses of magic unfolding, the one that occurs when ideas and backgrounds merge: encounters, the unexpected combinations that happen together with everything that comes into their creations. […]

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