It was on November 20th at Lago (Paris 11). Aurélien Thomas (Gentlemen 1919), Jules Bernard (Les Planqués), Grégoire Soushko (L'Ours Bar), Maxime Mannevy (Bar Kléber - The Peninsula), and Oliver Eardley (Ivy Cocktail Bar) gathered for the very first final of the Coq Tail competition by Coquerel.

At the end of this event, where the challenge was to create the best pairing between cocktail and chocolate, the competition was so tight that the jury decided there would not be one winner, but two!

Thus, Maxime Mannevy and Oliver Eardley emerged victorious, with the following recipes:

Tea Time by Maxime Mannevy

• 60 ml of Coquerel Fine Pale
• 60 ml of Lapsang Souchong tea
• 2 dashes of saline solution
• 20 ml of homemade watercress syrup

Garnish: a watercress leaf

237 by Oliver Eardley

• 45 ml of Coquerel Fine Pale
• 10 ml of vanilla liqueur
• 1 barspoon of Benedictine
• 4 dashes of Spiced African Cacao Tincture*
• 2 drops of saline solution

Garnish: Dark chocolate truffle with calvados

*Homemade with African beans, cinnamon, Sichuan pepper, nutmeg, cardamom seeds, and Coquerel apple brandy