The Gabriel Boudier Wizard Awards is a competition for UK bartenders to come up with an original liqueur or crème recipe that is not commercially available and using only natural and ethically sourced ingredients.

UK Bartenders are required to register in the competition using this page, where they’ll be given neutral spirit to use to start creating their recipes. Once their happy with their recipe they can enter it using this page (deadline 31st August).

Regional final heats are then held across the UK in September with the top four bartenders being invited to present their liqueurs at the Grand Final at the home of Gabriel Boudier, Dijon, France.

Besides the cash prize of £1000, the triumphant Wizard receive product development, followed by a launch of their unique liqueur, joining the Gabriel Boudier Bartender range, alongside the previous winners.

1. Read our Terms & Conditions and Competition Information

2. Register into the competition using the button above.

3. Receive your neutral beet spirit.

4. Get creative! Create an original liqueur recipe…

5. Enter your liqueur recipe (before 31st August 24) using the button above.

6. Good luck!

• 1st March 2024 (Registration Opens)

• 31st August 2024 (Entry Deadline)

• September 2024 (UK Regional Finals)

• January 2025 (Grand Final in Dijon)

• Summer 2025 (Winning Recipe Launch)

1. Your recipe must be a liqueur, defined as either a Créme (ABV of over 15%, sugar content of over 250g/l) or a Liqueur (ABV of over 15%, sugar content of over 100g/l).

2. Your liqueur recipe must use a neutral spirit alchohol, with no limits to what ingredients you wish to include in your creation. The final recipe however must be a flavour that is currently not commercially available in your market. Emporia Brands will, on request, supply the neutral sugar beet alcohol, the same base as used by Gabriel Boudier (the competition is about the ingredients, not the base alcohol). It is, however, a condition, following Gabriel Boudier’s policy, that you must use 100% natural ethically sourced ingredients, with no artificial or synthesised flavours or colourings.

3. There is no restriction on how you create your liqueur, using either distillation, percolation, infusion, maceration or maturation. NB Some ingredients can, during these processes, create harmful by-products; these are unlikely to affect most recipes, but recipes must be submitted in advance for checking, and Emporia Brands reserves the right to disqualify any entry on the grounds of safety.

4. Entrants will discover that the optimum times for the above processes vary according to the ingredient - some very quick, some require weeks. Emporia Brands is happy to comment on any entrant’s recipe in line with the rules above.

5. The liqueur must be presented in a final filtered quality, ready to serve, but may include any of the ingredients in solid form if part of the final recipe.

6. Each Wizard needs to complete an initial registration and entry form online which includes details of the recipe and process, together with the recipe for the perfect serve cocktail.

7. All entry forms will be judged by a panel led by Jack Rackham, Director of Emporia Brands.

8. It is a condition of entry that there is no intellectual property retained by the entrant. Should the recipe be selected for commercial production no entitlement to financial or any other benefit will accrue to the entrant.

9. You must stock at least one Gabriel Boudier in the bar you work in.