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Who you'll be drinking with

Hi, I'm Matt

Matt smiling as he measures a cocktail at an outdoor competition bar
Competing in the MONTZI cocktail competition, Liverpool.

I've spent ten years behind the bar in the Lakes, and this year I made the semi-finals of the MONTZI cocktail competition.

Honestly? Because I love it. Ten years in, I still get a kick out of a properly balanced drink. And whatever I'm into, I end up showing other people how to do it. This is just that, with shakers.

Spirit & Proof brings that to your holiday home: a proper bar set up in your kitchen, everyone with their own shaker, and three drinks you'll actually be able to make again at home.

  • Ten years behind the bar in the Lakes
  • MONTZI cocktail competition semi-finalist, 2026
  • Personal licence holder
  • Fully insured: £5m public and products liability
  • Based in Bowness, travelling to holiday homes around Windermere

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From the notebook

Every spec I teach lives in a notebook first. Here's one of the old ones.

Handwritten notebook page with a Pornstar Martini recipe and a sketch of the glass
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