The Philip Duff Show
Liquor, bars, cocktails: the people and companies who make them, sell them and drink them, plus everything & everyone in-between, with your host, globetrotting spirits guy and escaped bartender, Philip Duff.
Episodes
82 episodes since 2022
#82, Marshall Minaya, beverage director Valerie, Madame George and Lolita, New York City.
Marshall - and the three top-notch places he runs the beverage programs for, Valerie, Lolita and Madame George - is one of Manhattan's best-kept secrets. If you come to New York, I'll take you to one of these places (or all three, as they'r...
September 09, 2024
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Episode 82
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1:49:15
#81, Tim McKirdy, managing editor, VinePair, recovering chef, host of the Cocktail College podcast
Myself and Tim have been threatening each other with a podcast taping for over a year, and we finally found time to sit down, beverages to hand, and make it happen!(This is a satisfyingly lengthy episode, clocking in at over 2.5 hours, and ...
September 02, 2024
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Episode 81
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2:33:23
#80 Simone Caporale, co-owner Sips & Sips Esencia (#1, W50BB 2023), Amaro Santoni, Canaima Gin, MUYU Liqueurs & The Art of Shaking
Simone has come a long way since his Italian childhood in Como: while part of a legendary double-act with Alex Kratena, he led London's Artesian Bar to an unprecedented four #1 listings in World's 50 Best Bars. Simone's post-Artesian career...
August 26, 2024
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Episode 80
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1:15:10
#79, Mark Pascal & Francis Schott, hosts of The Restaurant Guys podcast, owners of Stage Left Steak and Catherine Lombardi restaurants, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Francis, and, later Mark, have been friends of mine for a long time; we must have bumped into one another in Manhattan or at a Tales of the Cocktail event in New Orleans, but it was our mutual friend Dale de Groff who persuaded me to make the t...
August 19, 2024
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Episode 79
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1:37:07
#78 Erik Lorincz, owner Kwānt (London), Antique American Bar (Bratislava), BIRDY by Erik Lorincz bar tools, ex-head bartender The Savoy, former Diageo World Class global champion.
Me and Erik go waaaaaay back, to when I taught a class on the IBA's elite John Whyte residential training course in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, before Erik moved to London to start his stratospheric ascent to the top of the bartending world. ...
August 12, 2024
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Episode 78
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1:42:01
#77 Simon Difford, founder Diffordsguide.com, creator Difford's Easy Jigger, chronicler of the Second Cocktail Golden Age
Simon's been a mate since the late 1990s, when he created CLASS (standing for Cocktail Liqueur And Speciality Spirit) magazine, the print forerunner of Difford's Guide and, in a pre-Internet world, just about ...
August 05, 2024
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Episode 77
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1:42:21
#76, Natasha Bahrami, The Gin Girl, The Gin Room (St. Louis, Missouri), Gin World festivals (everywhere), member The Gin Guild
I've known Natasha for ages and it's no exaggeration to say she's changed the landscape of gin consumption in her native Missouri, and indeed in the wider USA as well. Much as Julio Bermejo built a dedicated band of fanatics drinking 100% B...
July 29, 2024
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Episode 76
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1:19:14
#75 Zev Glesta, spirits specialist Sotheby's New York, ex-bartender at The Modern, The Fat Duck/Dinner
Zev's had one of the most interesting career arcs of any bartender I know, but when we finally sat down to tape an episode, it turned out to have even more twists and turns than I thought! From Brooklyn to Melbourne to Montreal and back to ...
July 22, 2024
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Episode 75
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1:47:20
#74, Anna Sebastian, UK-based hospitality consultant, founder of #CelebrateHer, ending homelessness with @underonesky
Anna is brilliant and this episode - taped partly in a hotel lobby in London, and then on Zoom - is just like having a drink with her, which is always great. She's not afraid to say the things others won't, and her goal is to eleva...
July 15, 2024
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Episode 74
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2:06:58
#73, Ago Perrone, Director of Mixology, The Connaught, co-author, The Connaught Bar book
Well, I've know Agostino since he was a fresh-faced young buck at Montgomery Place, one of London's best cocktail bars back in the day. I remember when he moved to take the reins at the Connaught when it reopened, and the dream opening duo ...
July 08, 2024
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Episode 73
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1:20:23
#72 Benji Cavagna, partner, Farmily Bars Group (Milan), co-founder, Bitter Fusetti
Benji (whose actual name is Fabio), is a friend, and a tremendous host even among his fellow Italian bartenders, which is really saying something. After studing philosophy and being a professional soccer player (!), Benji went into bartendi...
July 01, 2024
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Episode 72
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1:36:19
#71, David Thomas Tao, Kentuckian, whisky writer, fitness commentator (!), voiceover actor, theatre investor
I kept bumping into David at events (like Philip Duff Show stalwart Tony Sach's regular get-togethers for writers and other waifs and strays) and he was always good fun to chat with, so me and him sat down in a shady spot inside Central Park* o...
June 26, 2024
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Episode 71
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2:26:31
#70, Gegam Kazarian, founder Yerevan Cocktail Week, Magika Cordials, champion bartender, renaisssance man
What to say about my old mate Gegam Kazarian? In his native Armenia, he studied biochemistry, then floral design, then silversmithing, started bartending, followed his passion for Spanish classical guitar by emigrating to Spain, started sev...
June 17, 2024
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Episode 70
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1:27:50
#69 (nice!), Shannon Mustipher, tropical drinks guru, bartender, author, consultant
Shannon, a Charleston native, is a powerhouse: an artist who left art due to its restrictions, a New York City bartender who championed rum when no-one cared about it (spoiler: a lot of people still don't care), the award-winning author of "Tik...
June 10, 2024
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Episode 69
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1:24:19
#68 Jim Meehan, award-winning mixologist, bartender, author and consultant
Me and Jim met in 2006, when he entered the Bols 200 contest I organised, and I dropped by Pegu Club to see him next time I was in New York (I was living in Holland at the time). He went on to open PDT (Please Don't Tell) in 2007, which alm...
June 03, 2024
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Episode 68
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2:06:11
#67, Robb Jones, owner, Meteor bar, Minneapolis
Robb's been a mate for a long time - I think we met when he was a Tales of the Cocktail Cocktail Apprentice (CAP) - and the first event we ever did after I launched Old Duff Genever in Minnesota was at his bar, Meteor, which he opened in late 2...
May 27, 2024
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Episode 67
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1:09:35
#66, Negotiation Book Club with Bianca Grisolia, BG Communication, Barcelona
Another first for the Philip Duff Show!Bianca, a Barcelona-based PR maestra, is a good friend and we were chatting about all sorts of things during the recent Paradiso Sustainability Summit* in Barcelona, and it turned out we both were inte...
May 19, 2024
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Episode 66
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1:30:05
#65, Linden Pride, co-owner Caffe Dante, Dante West Village & Dante Beverly Hills
What to say about my mate Linden? He built Caffe Dante, already a decades-old fixture in New York, into the #1 rated on the World's 50 Best Bars list, then opened Dante West Village in the teeth of the COVID pandemic, and recently open...
May 13, 2024
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Episode 65
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1:20:57
#64, Mark Reynier, founder of Waterford Whisky, Renegade Rum and former owner of Bruichladdich
Mark is one of the most interesting people you could meet in the liquor business; drawing on his and his father's experiences importing and selling fine wines in his native England, he applied the logic of terroir to spirits, starting back in 2...
May 06, 2024
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Episode 64
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1:47:12
#63, Ciaran Smith, founder, The Bottle Cocktail Shop (London), former award-winning cocktail bar owner & hotel executive
He was a bit knackered because he just got back from consulting on a banqueting event in the Middle East, but London-based Tallaght* bowsie Ciaran Smith brought the heat in this episode, from supplying me with one of his Bottle Cocktail S...
April 29, 2024
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Episode 63
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2:04:31
#62, Nick Papanicolaou, founder No Sleep Beverage liquor incubator, former mergers & acquisitions at Pernod-Ricard USA
UPDATE SUNDAY 28 April - fixed the audio, which cut out at 15mins on Friday & Saturday. The full 1 hour 45min session is now live!Nick Papanicolaou just founded No Sleep Beverage, an innovative incubator taking minority investme...
April 26, 2024
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Episode 62
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1:45:51
#61, Amir Babayoff, Mixologist, Actor & Teacher
I was introduced to Amir a few years back by our mutual friend Oron Lerner, of Imperial Group in Tel Aviv. Amir came to New York decades ago to try his hand at acting, and began working in hospitality as a side hustle. Along the way he also wor...
April 20, 2024
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Episode 0
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1:30:19
#60, Phil & Tony Sachs Eclipse Special!
I sat down yesterday with Philip Duff Show stalwart and drinks writer Tony Sachs to catch up, drink some of the colossal amount of booze he has in his apartment, and pre-game an event yesterday evening which saw New York bartending legend Brian...
April 09, 2024
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Episode 60
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1:49:00
#59, Jillian Vose, Hazel and Apple (Charleston), Outwalker Whiskey
Jillian's an old friend from her acclaimed days heading up storied New York cocktail bars such as Dead Rabbit, Death & Co, and Maison Premiere, to name but a few. She relocated to Charleston, South Carolina a while back to open her next...
April 01, 2024
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Episode 59
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55:48
#58, Margarita Sader (Paradiso, Barcelona), Bianca Grisolia (BG Communications), Kaitlyn Stewart (Likeable Bartender)
Well, I couldn't pass up this opportunity!I was at the third and largest edition of the Paradiso Sustainability Summit in Barcelona recently, organised by #1 W50BB 2022 bar Paradiso, which brought together speakers and bars from around ...
March 25, 2024
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Episode 58
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2:09:12