Gra’it Challenge Grand Finale Winners Announced

The Grand Finale of the Gra’it Challenge was held on June 21st, 2017 at Byblos, Miami.

The Gra’it Challenge was the world’s first bartending competition featuring a grappa brand. The Grand Finale was live-streamed on the Gra’it Facebook page and received over 50,000 views across the globe.

Over the course of the past six months, the program:

• Engaged over 400 top bartenders across five US States (Florida, New York, Illinois, Texas and California)
• Opened doors to many top cocktail bars in the key US cities
• Massively boosted the Gra’it awareness and enhanced its credibility in the on-premise channel
• Served as a mean to educate 100s professionals on what makes a good grappa
• Sent a strong signal to all our current and future business partners (wholesalers, media publications, trade accounts, etc.): we’re here to stay and to build not just a brand but the entire category
• Selected by an outstanding and world-class judging panel made up of Cesar Diaz, Julie Reiner, Fabio Raffaelli, Ben Potts and Camper English, here are the finalists (pictured left to right):

• Hector Acevedo (Cocktail Cartel – FL)
• Giorgia Crea (Zucca – Coral Gables – FL)
• Ms. Franky Marshall (Le Boudoir – New York – NY)
• Meredith Barry (Vol. 39 – Chicago – IL)
• Will Benedetto (Blind Barber – Brooklyn – NY)
• Ryan Wainwright (The Ponte – Los Angeles – CA)
• David Bonatesta (The Nomad Bar – New York – NY)

The seven winners will travel from Milan to Venice, Florence and Rome and meet their colleagues in some of the top cocktail bars in Italy.

For more information, visit Grait.It.