Seminar Speakers     Neil Mathieson     Craig Harper     John Gakuru     Tony Hart & Jake Burger   Salvatore Calabrese     Mark Ridgewell     Simon Difford     Noel Sweeney     Sasha Petraske     Angus Winchester     Alex Fitzsimmons     Peter Dorelli     Audrey Saunders     Robert Hess     Stanislav Vadma     Dale DeGroff     Tony Conigliaro     David Wondrich     Gary Regan	Seminar 5: Salvatore Calabrese 'An Audience with Salvatore Calabrese'   Currently overseeing the bar at 'Fifty' - a new private members club in West London, the bartending maestro built his reputation whilst working the bottles at the Library Bar in the Lanesborough Hotel, where he was bar manager for ten years. Before that he worked in the Duke´s Hotel, St James´s where his slickly prepared Martinis gained him an almost legendary, cult status amongst the capitals most discerning drinkers. Calabrese has over the past decade established himself as a world expert on vintage Cognacs, and has spent many years tracking down, collecting and serving some of the world's oldest and rarest vintages. Their dates mark some of history's most important events, and his most memorable experience was opening a bottle of 1789 Cognac, the year of the French Revolution, and selling it at £1,000 a glass! Coining the phrase, 'Liquid History', Calabrese has built up a reputation amongst Cognac enthusiasts who have travelled the world to sample his collection of vintages that stretched back to 1770.