About & winners
About & winners

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Archers & Peachtree Cocktail Competition

Winners announced!
Our competition to find the best new cocktails with the vibrant fresh peachy flavours of either Peachtree or Archers peach schnapps closed on the 25th October 2024, and our friends at De Kuyper Royal Distillers, the brand owners, have announced the winners.

Congratulations to the winners and runners-up! And many thanks to all who added their peach schnapps cocktail recipes to Difford's Guide, where they remain accessible to other members of our community of Discerning Drinkers.

Click the cocktail names or photographs for the full recipes and story behind each cocktail.

Professional bartender winners

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Winner: Dimitrios Demertzis from Bar Montez Rosewood with Peach & Smoke wins €1,000 euros.



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Runner up: Arran Lin from BarDionysus with Whispers of Autumn wins €500 euros.









Home cocktail enthusiast winners

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Winner: Lee Clarke with Peach Melba Sour wins €1,000 euros.



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Runner up: Cesar Pailhes with Velvet Orchard wins €500 euros.









Behind the competition

With our friends at De Kuyper Royal Distillers in the Netherlands, we challenged professional bartenders and home cocktail enthusiasts to create delicious peach schnapps cocktails, using either Peachtree or Archers, that others will want to make and enjoy.

We sought cocktails that are easy to replicate, made using easily available ingredients without the need to pre-combine ingredients. Cocktails entered had to include at least 15ml (½oz) of either Peachtree or Archers peach schnapps.

Cocktails based on less than seven ingredients were preferred, but nine was the maximum number permitted, including fruit juices, syrups, drops, or dashes. Solid garnishes were not counted as ingredients, nor was an additional spray of citrus fruit zest over the drink if specified as a garnish.

Entries were only considered where a photograph of the finished cocktail accompanied the recipe.

Judges & judging criteria

The competition was judged by Max de Smit, the Global Brand Ambassador for De Kuyper Royal Distillers and Arno van Eijmeren (founder of Barrelproof Company).

The most delicious yet easy-to-replicate recipes received the highest scores. As a cocktail's name greatly influences its popularity, the name of each cocktail also impacts the score. Points were awarded as follows:
Taste = 40%
Name = 20%
Ease to replicate = 20%
Photograph = 20%

Key Dates

Competition opened – Tuesday 1st October 2024
Competition closed – Friday 25th October 2024 at midnight Greenwich Mean Time
Winners announced - Friday 1st November 2024

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