Diageo Reserve World Class Champion 2012 - Tim Philips, Australia
Diageo Reserve World Class Champion 2012 – Tim Philips, Australia
@WorldClassLive
@WorldClassLive

And after my many blogs from Rio I best better tell you who actually won! Congratulations Tim Philips from Hemmesphere, Sydney who is now officially the world’s best bartender! Yup the finals were held at castle in Rio no less! I’ve been obsessively watching Game of Thrones so was particularly pleased about this 🙂 anyway I will now let the pictures (and video) do the talking, since they always seem to tell it best!
PS. Spike Marchant (global brand ambassador for Diageo) is possibly the best emcee of ALL TIME, check it out! xoxo

Spike Marchant
Spike Marchant

If you were not paying attention click here to figure out what Diageo Reserve World Class is!

Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Rudy Paoli
Rudy Paoli
Christina Hendricks
Christina Hendricks
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Tim Philips wins Diageo Reserve World Class 2012
Tim Philips wins Diageo Reserve World Class 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Tim Philips
Tim Philips
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Hot Bar Chick and Tim Judge
Hot Bar Chick and Tim Judge
Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012
Diageo Reserve Global World Class Finals 2012

Category winners:

Global winner/overall champion: Tim Philips, Australia
Signature Serves challenge: Kae Yin, Taiwan
Speed challenge: Shigeki Yoshida, Japan
Street Market: Dennis Zoppi, Italy
Food matching: Andy Mil, UK
Cocktail Mastery: Olivier Jacobs, Belgium
Tropical Journey: Jimmy Barrat, Dubai
Hollywood, Bollywood etc: Giuseppe Santamaria, Spain
Retro Chic: Varia Dellalian, Lebanon
Regional winner, Western Europe: Fjalar Goud, Netherlands
Regional winner, Asia Pacific: Kae Yin, Taiwan
Regional winner, Latin America: Stephon Scott, Trinidad
Regional winner, Rest of the World: Jimmy Barrat, Dubai

Ordering a cocktail will never be the same 🙂