Angus Winchester wins coveted 2014 Golden Spirit Award

Angus Winchester, global brand ambassador for Tanqueray Gin, has been given the Golden Spirit Award for the best presenter at the 2014 Tales of the Cocktail.

Angus Winchester, global brand ambassador for Tanqueray Gin, is the seventh recipient of the Golden Spirit Award

The coveted award is voted for by seminar attendees at the annual New Orleans event, and recognises the most outstanding talent in communicating the world of spirits and cocktails with an audience.

Having totted up the scores, Winchester was declared the winner with his seminars The Godfathers and Healthy Wealthy and Wise.

Philip Duff, director of programming for the New Orleans Culinary and Cultural Prevention Society, said: “Angus can sell out a room on the strength of his name alone, but continues to up the ante with every single seminar he teaches, always stretching himself, always staying up-to-date.

“He is driven to share the truly encyclopaedic knowledge of bars, spirits and cocktails he accumulates during his astoundingly peripatetic lifestyle, and in this he has inspired countless other presenters and educators.”

Winchester is the seventh recipient of the award, following in the footsteps of Charlotte Voisey (2007 & 2009), Jeff Berry (2008), Francesco Lafranconi (2009), Jacob Briars (2010), Claire Smith (2011), Philip Duff (2012) and David Wondrich (2013).