May 28 2024 61 mins
You’d be hard-pressed to find a bartender that doesn’t know the guest today - Imbibe Magazine has even called him, ‘the most famous cocktail bartender in the world’.
Dale DeGroff humbly deflects it to Joe Baum but is credited with transforming cocktail culture while working at the Rainbow Room in New York in the 1980s. He popularised a number of things including the use of fresh juice and garnishes, the Cosmopolitan as we know it today and even named the Nick and Nora glass.
Dale has received numerous awards, trained many of today’s greats and authored bestselling cocktail books - including The Craft of The Cocktail.
He’s the founding President of The Museum of the American Cocktail, serves as a consultant for Holland America Line and continues to entertain audiences with lively presentations on TV and stage worldwide.
Recorded inside the world’s first standalone Grey Goose bar at Crown Melbourne, Le Martini. Officially open, the venue offers a range of martinis designed by Dale.