Who are the World’s 50 Best Bars judges and how are they chosen?
It’s always a mystery how a movie, a restaurant or a hotel is chosen as the best in the world. With bars it’s no different. If the list published yesterday by The World’s 50 Best Bars raised doubts, relax, we’ll explain how it works.
The list is an initiative of the World’s 50 Best Bars Academy, an academy made up of 700 members spread across 28 geographic regions. These experts specializing in the global bar scene are selected by the Academy Presidents, a sort of regional “presidents”, who also vote.
Among the experts there are bartenders, consultants, journalists and other “drink writers”, half made up of men and half women. Everyone is entitled to eight confidential votes based on the best bar experiences of the last 18 months, and absolutely everything is vetted by Delloite, a nearly 180-year-old multinational corporation based in New York.
Example of professional voter selectors, Sorrel Moseley-Williams is an independent food, drink and travel journalist, sommelière, oenologist (she is Sorol wines) and representative of the Academy of the 50 Best Bars for all of South America.
Sorrelita, as she is better known, is English, but has Colombian blood and a Buenos Aires heart: although she spends most of the year travelling, she adopted Buenos Aires as her home 18 years ago. The 50 Best entered his life a bit by chance: “In 2013 I went to visit Lima and they gave me two contacts, one was Virgilio MartÃnez and then I started writing about the 50 Best Restaurants”. When he saw him, he was inside the Academy.
For the president of every country, from Colombia to Venezuela on down, a good bar is subjective, as style and company can influence him. However, he believes that “The responsibility of the bar is in hospitality. Human contact is everything and must be precise, neither exaggerated nor scanty. It makes me feel special and wins me over, and quickly, because in a bar you spend less time than in a restaurant or a hotel!”
Attentive to details – and also to emotions -, Sorrel is a fan of the martini, dry or dirty, and also of the gin and tonic. Modesty aside, though, she’s fascinated by the white wines themselves, two Mendoza-made semillons that have just been launched.
He doesn’t have the after-effects of yesterday’s party at the Arena Madrid, he can’t reveal how many jurors he selects each year, but he already knows that, like every year, he will change some of them to maintain freshness in the voting.
Source: Terra
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