{"id":3720,"date":"2025-06-03T15:27:23","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T15:27:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/?p=3720"},"modified":"2026-10-14T11:58:59","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T11:58:59","slug":"master-cocktail-the-williams-and-humbert-cocktail-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/master-cocktail-the-williams-and-humbert-cocktail-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"Master Cocktail, the Williams &#038; Humbert cocktail competition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez, winner of the fifth edition<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Master Cocktail winner has an outstanding career as an entrepreneur in the hospitality sector, where she has shown great experience and creativity as a bartender.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez receives the Master Cocktail award\" class=\"wp-image-2340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail-1140x794.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2-Master-cocktail.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This young Asturian is co-founder of three successful venues, including \u201cThe Black\u201d, \u201cLa Loca del Mo\u00f1o\u201d and \u201cEl Patio de Butacas\u201d. With the latter, she began her meteoric career, pouring all her interests, research and love into it with her partner Alberto D\u00edaz Noval. \u201cHere we focus on cocktails inspired by the rural world, with roots, tradition and attachment to what\u2019s ours,\u201d Tania L\u00f3pez tells us. In fact, she started out working at the bar owned by the man who would become her partner, \u201cto earn a bit of money\u201d. It was there that Tania entered the world of cocktails, first mastering the classics and later creating emblematic menus such as \u201cMadre\u201d and the current \u201cMelecina\u201d, \u201ckeeping the common thread of using local produce from our gardens and lanes\u201d. She began working with Jerez wines unexpectedly, on a holiday to Sanl\u00facar de Barrameda. On that trip she soaked up the whole history of the wine region and began to study and learn about wines, production processes, vintages and grape varieties, until she fell head over heels for the bodegas and their products.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Black Bar\u201d is another of her venues, a cocktail bar inspired by English clubs and pubs, with lighter, more playful cocktails. And \u201cLa Loca del Mo\u00f1o\u201d is what Tania calls \u201cher toy\u201d, an unpretentious bar with a big following in the most emblematic building in Pola de Siero.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez in the Williams & Humbert cellar\" class=\"wp-image-2345\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2-1140x794.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/3-Master-cocktail-2.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We share Tania L\u00f3pez\u2019s experience during her visit to Bodegas Williams & Humbert, where we got to know her better and enjoy her winning cocktail, \u201cSur Fashioned\u201d, a Rum Fashioned based on Oloroso-poached pears \u2013 pears picked from the Master Cocktail winner\u2019s own garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Sur Fashioned<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2-1024x713.jpg\" alt=\"Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez making her cocktail in the cellar\" class=\"wp-image-2344\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2-1024x713.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2-768x535.jpg 768w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2-1140x794.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-Master-cocktail-2.jpg 1365w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When cooked, transfer the pears to a vacuum bag and add pectinase at 2% of their weight. Leave for 24 hours at room temperature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reduce the Don Zoilo Oloroso left in the pan over a high heat until you have a bitter caramel with Oloroso aromas and a sweet flavour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The next day, strain the liquid released by the pears. To make the cocktail, add to a mixing glass a bar spoon of the Oloroso syrup, 35 ml of the Oloroso pears and 100 ml of Dos Maderas 5+5 rum. Stir for 6\u20138 minutes, adding ice for dilution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Serve in an Old Fashioned glass with ice and garnish with an orange twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"872\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-Master-cocktail-872x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez smiling behind the bar with Don Zoilo bottles\" class=\"wp-image-2346\" srcset=\"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-Master-cocktail-872x1024.jpg 872w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-Master-cocktail-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-Master-cocktail-768x901.jpg 768w, https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/6-Master-cocktail.jpg 1140w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 872px) 100vw, 872px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Organised by Bodegas Williams & Humbert, Master Cocktail is the cocktail competition launched in 2019 for industry professionals. A platform to boost the creativity, talent, technique and work of bartenders, with great brands such as Cubical gin, Dos Maderas rum and Gran Duque de Alba brandy. Making a cocktail with one of these Williams & Humbert brands is one of the requirements to enter. All the information about entering Master Cocktail and the prizes available to the winners can be found at mastercocktail.es<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tania L\u00f3pez Fern\u00e1ndez, an Asturian bartender, wins the fifth Master Cocktail competition with her Sur Fashioned, a unique creation combining Dos Maderas rum and Oloroso-poached pears, at the event organised by Williams &#038; Humbert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1171,1106,1172],"tags":[1256,1247,1181,1213,1095],"class_list":["post-3720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cocktails","category-events","category-spirits","tag-cocktails","tag-cocktails-en","tag-dos-maderas-rum","tag-master-cocktail","tag-williams-humbert"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3720"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3940,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3720\/revisions\/3940"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/global.williams-humbert.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}