The Dram Attic

Building on the momentum of Asia’s 50 Best Bars 2025, Wing Lei Bar is doubling down on Macau’s position as a sophisticated cocktail capital. Rather than asking enthusiasts to chase the world’s best bars across multiple cities, Wing Lei Bar brings the global circuit to Macau, inviting the industry’s most respected talent to gather under one roof.

If you’ve been in the know about Asia’s best cocktail bars in recent years, then you are probably very familiar with the names causing a stir. One of these is Wing Lei Bar in Macau’s iconic Wynn Palace Hotel – an address that towers over every other for its sheer grandeur and size, and that also happens to be Colin Farell’s playground in his most recent Hollywood thriller Ballad of a Small Player.

Wing Lei Bar sits at the heart of this gargantuan hotel, offering refuge from the casino and tourists as it hides unobtrusively behind heavy velvet drapes, waiting to welcome those seeking an adventure of a different kind. But don’t be fooled by the bar’s quietly luxurious demeanour, for what goes on behind the scenes will take you by surprise. Home to Head Mixologist Mark Lloyd’s curious experiments and obsession with Chemistry, Wing Lei Bar is shaping what the future of cocktail culture looks like for Macau. Scotland born Mark has travelled and worked extensively throughout Asia for the past 15 years. Having founded multiple bar concepts across five continents, the industry veteran further cemented his credibility in global bartending knowledge through successful tenures in Bangkok, Hong Kong and Shanghai. A spirited host and beloved figure in the beverage world, Mark brings warmth, ease and familiarity to complex drinks, ensuring they are as unforgettable as they are effortlessly drinkable. 

Needless to say, this is by no means an easy task as the city of Macau attracts people from all walks of life and from every possible corner of the world. The diversity of tastes and expectations is a challenge unto itself, with the team having to navigate added layers of cultural nuance. The Wing Lei Bar team nonetheless, has never shied away from a challenge. 

As captured in UNITY, Wing Lei Bar’s four-category, twelve-drink signature menu chronicling Mark’s 2025 collaborations across continents, bar camaraderie remains central to a bartender’s creative process. This shared understanding and cultural exchange continues to elevate both craft and ingredients, resonating with bartenders, guests, and enthusiasts alike. Wing Lei Bar proudly bridges continents by bringing the world’s most respected bars together through mutual admiration, all beginning in Macau. What sets UNITY apart is its ability to translate relationships into cocktails, from fan favourites like Hand of God and the Banana Boulevardier inspired by Argentina’s Tres Monos, to Basil Smash, Daisy, a nod to Mark’s favourite Moebius Milano cocktail, and Tommy’s Holiday, a hyperlocal tribute to Julio Bermejo’s iconic creation poured at Wing Lei Bar last July.

In the spirit of embracing this diversity in culture and craft, the journey now builds toward the next evolution: Wing Lei Bar & Friends – a celebration of the best of cocktail culture from Asia and beyond, taking place every few months. These evenings will feature a notable bar from among the world’s most prolific bars who will bring their signature style and drinks to regale guests at Wing Lei Bar. Billed as four quarterly volumes, each weekend takeover will host bars from a different region. Volume 1 kicks off with a focus on Asia, welcoming Good Friends Club (Penang), Chimney (Hangzhou), and Sugar Ray (Bangkok) from the 23rd to the 25th of January. Volume 2 in March 2026 shifts the lens to the world’s most iconic cocktail capitals: New York, London, and Tokyo.

But that’s not all. Alongside this series, and in an industry first, Wing Lei Bar will also be launching a year-long collectible sticker campaign inspired by the global obsession with football sticker albums, tapping into bartenders’ love for the game as anticipation builds toward the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Each quarterly edition of Wing Lei Bar & Friends features limited-edition Panini-style stickers of guest bartenders and their signature cocktails—some matte, others rare glossy variants—available exclusively during weekend guest shifts and designed to be collected, traded, and completed in an official album. Blending cross-generational collector nostalgia with the shared values of sport and mixology—teamwork, discipline, craft, and legacy—the campaign reimagines the guest shift as something tangible, community-driven, unmistakably luxurious but with fun and games at the heart of it all. Head Mixologist Mark Lloyd quips, “We’re turning guest shifts into a collector’s sport. Other luxury bars might hesitate to launch a sticker campaign. We see it as the perfect expression of our values: serious craft delivered with joy.”

Wing Lei Bar is redefining cocktail culture in Macau, breaking free from the conventions of the classic hotel bar and proving that luxury can be playful, progressive, and unconstrained by outdated expectations. With access to some of the world’s finest bars, a riveted audience from neighbouring cities, and a laser sharp focus on providing an unforgettable experience to cocktail enthusiasts, the team here are on to something bigger – building Macau into becoming one of the key destinations to experience Asia’s undeniable cocktail moment. 

As the next few months unfurl at Wing Lei Bar, we urge you to keep an eye out for announcements on their Instagram page, plan a trip to experience Wing Lei Bar & Friends, and above all, get your hands on those stickers and hopefully forge new friendships over a shared love for cocktails, play, and luxury. 

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