Cocktail Masterclass: 7 Signature Steps
A cocktail masterclass in nine lessons: two infusions, a shiso oil, three martini variations, an edible cloud and a bioluminescent drink.
Giacomo Giannotti
Owner and bartender, Paradiso · Barcelona
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What you'll learn
9 Lessons, 35 min total
About this course
This cocktail masterclass uses one drink as the worked example. The martini is built classic first, then varied three ways: change the base spirit, infuse the components, add a flavoured oil. Gin takes shiso, vermouth takes hazelnut, and the two meet in a shiso hazelnut martini across nine lessons.
Flavour sits at the base of the method and presentation follows it, never the other way round. The infusions are taught before the drink that uses them, and the shiso oil before the garnish, so nothing in the finished glass is unaccounted for. Glassware and decoration are chosen to serve the flavour.
The last lessons go further than most bars will: a supercooled martini, an edible cloud, a bioluminescent cocktail, built with techniques that transfer to a kitchen. You leave able to put your own signature cocktail on a list and defend every component on it.
"A great cocktail follows the same logic as a great dish, balance first, everything else after."
Giacomo Giannotti · Owner @ Paradiso Barcelona
Lessons
9
Video
35 min HD
Level
Audio
English (VO)
Subtitles
English, Spanish, Italian, German, French
At the end of this course you will be able to
Build signature cocktail recipes from a classic by changing one component at a time.
Infuse gin with shiso and vermouth with hazelnut, then balance the result.
Extract a shiso oil and use it for aroma rather than for decoration alone.
Serve an edible cloud and a bioluminescent cocktail as finished bar service.
Cocktails today, coffee tomorrow.
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Meet your instructor
Giacomo Giannotti
Owner and bartender, Paradiso, Barcelona · No. 20, World's 50 Best Bars 2019
Giacomo Giannotti is an Italian bartender and the owner of Paradiso in Barcelona, which was placed 20th in the World's 50 Best Bars in 2019. He learned hospitality in his family's ice cream shop and trained for several years in London bars.
At Paradiso he runs a development lab rather than a back bar, which is where the infusion, oil and cloud techniques in this class were built. He teaches them here in the order he uses them, starting from a classic martini and ending with a drink that glows.
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Who is this course for?
First martini or ten thousandth
First-time and nightly bartenders who want a signature serve they can repeat the same way every time.
A short list with your name on it
Base swaps, gin and vermouth infusions and flavoured oils, for bartenders chasing their own signature serve.
Anyone who wants more from a classic
Martinis, infusions and signature serves, bartenders who want more from the classics they already pour.
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