06:00 PM
Back in the days : 1996 – 2000
Quickly google "1996 ", and you'll see how great that year was.
Alanis Morissette won the album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Sri Lanka got their first Cricket World Cup. Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls set a new NBA record of 70 wins in the span of a season.
What else…
The Nintendo 64 video game system was released, NASA found an evidence of primitive life-forms in a meteorite… and Havana Club launched the first international Grand Prix in the bartenders' Mecca: La Habana!
Since then, every two years, the competition has been attracting the finest cocktalians from every corner of the world.
Winner in 2000: Manuel Carbajo, from Cuba
Alanis Morissette won the album of the Year at the Grammy Awards. Sri Lanka got their first Cricket World Cup. Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls set a new NBA record of 70 wins in the span of a season.
What else…
The Nintendo 64 video game system was released, NASA found an evidence of primitive life-forms in a meteorite… and Havana Club launched the first international Grand Prix in the bartenders' Mecca: La Habana!
Since then, every two years, the competition has been attracting the finest cocktalians from every corner of the world.
Winner in 2000: Manuel Carbajo, from Cuba
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12:38 PM
May 11th: Havana Club's Grand Prix Kicks Off
The life of a bartender is one of continuous education. Therefore, every serious cocktail enthusiast, spirit connoisseur and drinks aficionado has a calendar that is punctuated by numerous competitions and seminars. If you've been invited to come down to Havana this year, or if you got yourself a winning ticket for the competition, here comes your itinerary for the 8th edition of the Havana Club Grand Prix.
Tuesday 11 May - You'll be checking in on Tuesday May 11th at the NH Parque Central Hotel, Havana, where you'll be invited to spend your day at a welcome buffet followed by a party at the hotel’s roof garden.
Wednesday 12 May - Things will be getting serious for the competitors. At 10am, the Gran Teatro de la Habana will be welcoming the contestants for the first stage of the finals. After a short briefing session the competition will begin, continuing until around 6pm. Events proceed with a creole dinner which will be waiting for you at El Aljibe, before going out to celebrate the 1st day of the competition at the Salon Rojo.
Thursday 13 May - All will join in a tour of the historical bars of Havana, they’ll get to watch a show of African rumba, see the Giraldilla, symbol of the city of Havana and of Havana Club and end in a tour of the Rum Museum. Then, at 8pm, four competitors will get back to business for the 2nd and final stage of the competition, at the end of which the 2010 Havana Grand Prix winner will be nominated and awarded his title at the gala dinner.
Friday 14 May - From 10am to 6pm there will be presentations and cocktail workshops by some well known figures of the trade at Hotel NH Parque Central. During these an interesting tour of La Corona cigar factory will take place for the ones who feel like discovering the birth of the other emblematic Cuban product. The day will conclude with a farewell dinner for the participants.
Tuesday 11 May - You'll be checking in on Tuesday May 11th at the NH Parque Central Hotel, Havana, where you'll be invited to spend your day at a welcome buffet followed by a party at the hotel’s roof garden.
Wednesday 12 May - Things will be getting serious for the competitors. At 10am, the Gran Teatro de la Habana will be welcoming the contestants for the first stage of the finals. After a short briefing session the competition will begin, continuing until around 6pm. Events proceed with a creole dinner which will be waiting for you at El Aljibe, before going out to celebrate the 1st day of the competition at the Salon Rojo.
Thursday 13 May - All will join in a tour of the historical bars of Havana, they’ll get to watch a show of African rumba, see the Giraldilla, symbol of the city of Havana and of Havana Club and end in a tour of the Rum Museum. Then, at 8pm, four competitors will get back to business for the 2nd and final stage of the competition, at the end of which the 2010 Havana Grand Prix winner will be nominated and awarded his title at the gala dinner.
Friday 14 May - From 10am to 6pm there will be presentations and cocktail workshops by some well known figures of the trade at Hotel NH Parque Central. During these an interesting tour of La Corona cigar factory will take place for the ones who feel like discovering the birth of the other emblematic Cuban product. The day will conclude with a farewell dinner for the participants.
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