E124 Christian Delpech
The Art Of Flair Bartending
Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Christian Delpech started working in bars in 1995 at the age of 17. It was at this time that Christian fell in love with flair bartending after watching the movie Cocktail. This prompted him to start practicing by himself in his home’s backyard. Christian worked in numerous places in Argentina doing shows and working flair. In 1998 Christian traveled to Spain to start his global bartending adventure and worked in Tenerife, Ibiza, Miami, Cancún and found his home in Las Vegas (which was also his dream location to work). Christian started competing in flair bartending competitions and after winning his first Pro World Championship in Vegas - Christian gets an offer to work at Caesar’s Palace - which of course he took!
Christian started to compete all over the world and winning multiple flair competitions - with many of them being world championships. After winning Legends of Bartending for the second time, Christian gets a job offer from Carnaval Court (a prestigious flair bar worldwide), where he worked for 10 years straight. After Leaving Carnaval, Christian opened The D Bar in downtown Las Vegas where he worked for 2 years, then opened The Fuel Bar. After 14 years of being in the best flair bars in Vegas, and being feature on bill boards in Las Vegas Boulevard (only bartender to be feature in 3 different billboards in Las Vegas Boulevard) and having his name in a Bar (The D bar), Christian leaves for a new adventure - this time to Miami and to join the team at the Bleau Bar at The legendary Fontainebleau Hotel.
After Fontainebleau, Christian jumps into a new adventure, working at Mr Coco in Las Vegas - a luxury high end cocktail bar with his mentor in the cocktail world, Mr Francesco Lafranconi.
In 2019, Christian returns to Miami to join the Spanglish team where he worked as head bartender for the next two years. Christian’s next move - and where he currently works - was on to Sweet Liberty - where he joined the team as head bartender. Sweet Liberty was rated one of the top 100 best bars in the world.
Christian has been in over 45 different countries competing, training people and performing. Christian has 19 World Championships tittles in Flair bartending under his belt, and over 60 other international competition winnings, including speed comps, and the King of Daiquiri in Florida, La Habana (the only bartender from out of Cuba to ever win this competition). Christina loves bartending in general and he consider himself a bartender (not a Flair bartender, not a mixologist, just a passionate bartender). Christian also spends time furthering his reach and influence by creating content for Social Media - especially Instagram. @christiandelpechofficial
Links
Christian's Youtube Channel - https://www.youtube.com/christiandelpechofficial
TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@christian_delpech
Additional Links
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