Sombra Mezcal announces the return of its sustainable cocktail competition, open to professional bartenders in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico from May 31 through July 15, 2019, on Sombra‘s website. Sombra Mezcal is the only mezcal to be created by a Master Sommelier with a distillery (palenque) that sets the highest standards for eco-friendly production. Sombra’s palenque ensures consistent quality and innovation from the fields to the bottle.
Sombra Mezcal is an award-winning agave spirit and a leader in sustainable mezcal production.
Three Grand Prize winners will receive a trip to Oaxaca, a destination for Mezcal and gastronomy for a hands-on education at Sombra’s eco-friendly palenque. Groundbreaking green initiatives include using certified sustainable forestry, rainwater collection, solar power and “The Sombra Adobe Brick Project” which upcycles agave fibers and distillation by-products into adobe bricks for local housing in Mexico.
The competition taps into bars across North America that are recycling, upcycling and innovating ways to safeguard the environment. Some examples include coffee grind infusions, transforming citrus juice and rinds into cocktail shrubs and vinegars, utilizing fruit pits as the base for new cocktail ingredients and finding alternatives to plastic straws.