Craft Cocktail Contest

Craft Cocktail Contest


The Perfect Purée Craft Cocktail Contest is closed as of 9/14/15 11:59PM PST

Thank you to everyone who entered The Perfect Purée Craft Cocktail Contest! All entries were an impressive display of passion and skill for the art of craft cocktails.

The Winning Cocktail Is…

Moon Bridge Over The Koi Pond

by John Holland (@Porchmaster)

2 1/2 oz. Fords Gin
1 1/2 oz. The Perfect Purée Lychee Puree
1 dash grenadine
1 dash honey syrup
lime & mint (muddle)

Muddle lime, mint, and honey syrup. Then add Lychee Puree and gin. Shake and strain. Garnish with lime and mint.

John’s cocktail “Moon Bridge Over The Koi Pond” featuring The Perfect Purée Lychee Puree was randomly selected as the winning cocktail.

As winner, John will enjoy a $200 Cocktail Kingdom® gift card, lifetime access to A Bar Above’s Cocktail Design Program and one case of The Perfect Purée!

 

Honorable Mention: @TheRocksGlass

We would also like to thank @TheRocksGlass for submitting the most entries to the Craft Cocktail Contest!

 

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OFFICIAL RULES for The Perfect Purée Craft Cocktail Contest 

NO PURCHASE OR PAYMENT OF ANY KIND IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN THIS CONTEST. A PURCHASE DOES NOT IMPROVE YOUR CHANCE OF WINNING. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

1. Eligibility: To enter the “The Perfect Purée – Craft Cocktail Contest” (the “Contest”), the entrant (“You” and “Your”) must be a legal resident of the fifty United States or the District of Columbia and be 21 years of age or older on the date of entry. You must also be a foodservice trade professional (which includes chefs and bartenders) who works for a restaurant, bar, or other foodservice establishment. The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley, LLC (“The Perfect Purée”) reserves the right to determine Your eligibility based on these criteria. Employees, officers, and directors of The Perfect Purée, its subsidiaries, affiliates, advertising and promotion agencies, including A Bar Above, and anyone involved in the production or administration of the Contest, and any member of the immediate family or household of any such persons, are not eligible. The Contest is subject to all applicable laws and regulations. The Contest is void in jurisdictions outside of the fifty United States, the District of Columbia, and where prohibited or restricted. By participating, You fully and unconditionally agree to and accept these Official Rules and the decisions of The Perfect Purée, which are final.

2. How to Enter: Entry begins at 12:00 am Pacific time on July 13, 2015 and ends at 11:59 pm September 14, 2015 Pacific time (the “Contest Period”). During the Contest Period, post your original recipe containing at least one flavor from The Perfect Purée to Twitter, Facebook or Instagram by following the guidelines below. Full recipe guidelines are listed in Section 3.

2.1 To enter by Twitter: Compose a tweet and include: a photo of your original cocktail, the name of your cocktail, The Perfect Purée flavor(s) featured in the cocktail, the contest hashtag #CraftPureeContest, and tag The Perfect Purée’s Twitter account by including @ThePerfectPuree in your tweet. Optionally you may also provide more details about your cocktail in your tweet. To work around Twitter’s 140 character limit, you can reply to your initial tweet to provide more recipe details.

2.2 To enter by Facebook: Compose a post and include: a photo of your original cocktail, the name of your cocktail, The Perfect Purée flavor(s) featured in the cocktail, the contest hashtag #CraftPureeContest, and tag The Perfect Purée’s Facebook Page by typing an @ sign, typing The Perfect Puree of Napa Valley and selecting the account. Optionally you may also provide more details about your cocktail in your post. Please note that Facebook may not support Page tagging on a mobile device. In this case, please make your post on a desktop or use Twitter or Instagram.

2.3 To enter by Instagram: Post a photo of your original cocktail and include in the caption: the name of your cocktail, The Perfect Purée flavor(s) featured in the cocktail, the contest hashtag #CraftPureeContest, and tag The Perfect Purée’s Instagram account by including @ThePerfectPuree in your caption. Optionally you may also provide more details about your cocktail in the caption.

2.4 Multiple recipes may be entered during the Contest Period.

2.5 The same entry entered on multiple social media platforms (Twitter, Instagram and Facebook) will count as 3 entries. The same entry entered twice to one social media platform will count as 1 entry.

3. Entry Content Guidelines: Create an original recipe containing at least one flavor from The Perfect Purée and take a photo. Your entry must be based on Your own ideas, recipe, work, and experience. The Perfect Purée reserves the right to verify all facts. Failure to be able to validate the authenticity of the Recipe or recipe image and Your information may result in disqualification. You may submit multiple Recipe entries during the Contest Period. Please enter each cocktail only once by posting only once onto the qualified social media platforms. Winning and non-winning Recipes, as selected by The Perfect Purée, maybe be displayed on the Contest Page and shared on social media. Entries will not be acknowledged or returned. All entries must be received by the end of the Contest Period. Proof of transmission is not proof of receipt. The Perfect Purée’s computer is the official timekeeping device for the Contest. Entries must not transmit anything that contains viruses or anything else that is harmful to any computer. No responsibility is assumed for late or misdirected entries, or any failure or unavailability of hardware, software, electronic communications, or Internet uploading or other connections. The Perfect Purée is not responsible for any changes or effects caused to Your computer system, mobile phone or camera equipment as a result of submitting an entry. Your submission (including the Recipe and any other materials and information You submit) (the “Entry Materials”) must comply with the following guidelines:

3.1 The Recipe must be an original work that was created by You and cannot have previously won a sweepstakes, contest, or other promotion. Previously published recipes will be disqualified, unless the recipe entered features changes considered substantial by the judges. Recipe images must be original images of Your recipe.

3.2 If the Recipe features or includes any reference to an Establishment, including its image, name, logo, trademark, or any other proprietary classification, You represent and warrant that You have permission from the Establishment for such use.

3.3 The Entry Materials must be created by You, and must not infringe the copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, or other personal or proprietary rights of any person or entity.

3.4 Entries that are lewd, obscene, sexually explicit, pornographic, disparaging, defamatory, libelous, obscene, not in keeping with The Perfect Purée’s image, or entries that otherwise contain inappropriate content or objectionable material as determined by The Perfect Purée in its sole discretion, will be disqualified.

3.5 By participating in the contest you consent to these Official Rules.

3.6 Samples of The Perfect Purée can be obtained from the Official Contest Page https://perfectpuree.com/craftcocktailcontest. These samples can be used to create the cocktail entry. Samples are complimentary to foodservice professionals only. Please note samples must be requested by 9/9/15 8AM PST to receive samples in time to enter.

4. Usage Rights in Entries: The Perfect Purée and its designees shall have the unrestricted and non-exclusive right to edit, adapt, publish, copy, display, perform, broadcast, modify, and otherwise use any or all Entry Materials, alone or in combination with other materials, in any and all media, whether now known or later discovered, in perpetuity, without restriction of any kind whatsoever, without compensation to You or anyone else. Without limiting the foregoing, any and all entries may be posted on the Contest Page or the webpages and social media accounts of A Bar Above and The Perfect Purée for public viewing. The Perfect Purée reserves the right to review any entry prior to any such posting, to remove any entry at any time after posting, and to remove any incidental material that could be deemed infringing as determined by The Perfect Purée. No guarantee is made that any particular entry will or will not be posted or as to the length of time between submission and posting. The Perfect Purée reserves the right, in its absolute discretion, to determine if any particular entry is appropriate for posting. All entries that are uploaded and made available for viewing by the general public will be deemed posted at the direction of the You within the meaning of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act and the Communications Decency Act. Entry constitutes permission for The Perfect Purée and it designees to use Your name, biographical information, moving or still image/likeness, and/or voice in any and all media, now or hereafter devised, worldwide, in perpetuity, for internal, advertising, Contest and other purposes without compensation, notification or permission, unless prohibited by law.

5. Contact: By entering the Contest, You agree that The Perfect Purée and its parent, subsidiaries and affiliates may contact You by social media, postal mail or electronic mail for promotional purposes. If You wish to be removed from such mailings, please contact The Perfect Purée at the address listed in Section 12 below or by following the instructions in any promotional email that You receive. Selection and Requirements of Potential Winner: A potential winner of the prize specified in Section 6 below will be selected from the overall pool of entrants. The potential winner will be chosen by random. The potential winner will be required to complete and return a declaration of eligibility and liability/publicity release within five (5) days of notification. The potential winner also will need to provide copies of a valid driver’s license or state issued identification card. The potential winner will forfeit the prize, and an alternate potential winner will be selected in his/her place if the potential winner fails to complete and return the declaration/release, with the required copies of his/her driver’s license or state issued identification card, within the specified time period. The Perfect Purée reserves the right to disqualify any contestant who does not meet the eligibility requirements and to re-award the prize to an eligible contestant. Odds of winning depend on the total number of eligible entries.

6. Prize: One (1) Craft Cocktail Contest winner will be randomly selected to receive a $200 Cocktail Kingdom gift card, access to the A Bar Above Cocktail Design Program and a case of The Perfect Purée (6 flavors) and subject to limitations contained herein.

7. General Conditions: In the event that the operation, security, or administration of the Contest is impaired in any way for any reason, The Perfect Purée may, in its sole discretion, suspend, modify, and/or cancel the Contest. The Perfect Purée reserves the right in its sole discretion to disqualify any person it finds to have tampered with the entry process or to have acted in violation of these Official Rules or in a disruptive manner. The Perfect Purée’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that or any other provision. In the event that a Recipe submission Your sole remedy shall be another Recipes entry into the Contest. If any provision of these Official Rules is held to be invalid or unenforceable, such provision shall be stricken and the remaining provisions shall be enforced.

8. Sponsor and Others Released from All Liability: Except as prohibited by law, by participating, You agree to release, discharge, and hold harmless The Perfect Purée, the parent, subsidiaries and affiliates of The Perfect Purée, any advertising or promotion company involved in the Contest, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees, managers, members, and agents, from and against any claim or cause of action arising out of participation in the Contest or the receipt or use of any prize, including, but not limited to: (a) unauthorized human intervention in the Contest; (b) late, lost, misdirected, delayed, inaccurate, illegible, garbled, stolen or incomplete entries, or entries not received for any reason, or for electronic transmission errors resulting in omission, interruption, deletion, defect delay in operations, or transmission, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to or alterations of entry materials; (c) technical, network, telephonic, electronic, hardware, or software errors or malfunctions of any kind; (d) inaccurate transmissions of or failure to receive entry information by The Perfect Purée on account of technical problems or traffic congestion on the Internet or at any web site or any combination thereof; (e) any other errors or difficulties of any kind whether human, mechanical, electronic, computer, network, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Contest; or (f) any loss, injury or damage to persons or property which may be caused, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, from participation in the Contest or the receipt or use of the prize. You waive the right to claim any damages whatsoever, including but not limited to punitive, consequential, direct, or indirect damages.

9. Disputes: You agree that any dispute arising out of the Contest shall be resolved in the state or federal courts of California. The laws of the State of California, without regard to any conflict of law rules, shall apply. EXCEPT WHERE PROHIBITED, BY PARTICIPATING, YOU FURTHER AGREE THAT: (A) ANY AND ALL DISPUTES, CLAIMS, AND CAUSES OF ACTION ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE CONTEST, OR ANY PRIZES AWARDED, SHALL BE RESOLVED INDIVIDUALLY WITHOUT RESORT TO ANY FORM OF CLASS ACTION; (B) ANY CLAIMS, JUDGMENTS AND AWARDS SHALL BE LIMITED TO ACTUAL OUT-OF-POCKET COSTS INCURRED, INCLUDING COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ENTERING THE CONTEST, BUT IN NO EVENT ATTORNEY’S FEES; AND (C) UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES WILL YOU BE PERMITTED TO OBTAIN ANY PUNITIVE, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES.

10. Privacy: Any information You submit to the Contest Page is subject to The Perfect Purée’s privacy policy posted at www.perfectpuree.com/catalog/privacy.

11. Severability: If any provision(s) of these Official Rules are held to be invalid or unenforceable, all remaining provisions hereof will remain in full force and effect.

12. Identification of Contest Winner: The name of winner will be posted on the Contest Page. If You would like to receive a list of these individuals by postage mail, send a self-addressed, stamped envelope to The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley, LLC, 2700 Napa Valley Corporate Dr., Suite L, Napa, CA 94558.

13. Promotion void where and to the extent prohibited by law.

14. Sponsors: The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley, LLC, 2700 Napa Valley Corporate Dr., Suite L, Napa, CA 94558. A Bar Above http://www.abarabove.com/

15. Questions: If You have any questions, please contact The Perfect Purée at (800) 556-3707 or info@perfectpuree.com

 

Contest Sponsored By:
The Perfect Purée of Napa Valley

 

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