Wynn Palace's award-winning bar unveils a new menu inspired by travels, guest shifts, and cultural connections across the world
Macao, September 18, 2025 – Nestled within Wynn Palace, Wing Lei Bar has become a crossroads where East meets West and where cocktail culture is defined not by geography, but by dialogue. Having recently played host to the Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025 awards, complete with international guest shifts and visiting icons, the bar has emerged as both a showcase of Wynn's luxury hospitality and a platform for global mixology, where the world's leading bartenders and ideas converge.
It is against this backdrop that Wing Lei Bar introduces its latest menu titled "UNITY" on September 18. Curated by Head Mixologist Mark Lloyd, the collection is the distillation of the past year of travel, guest shifts, and cultural encounters, weaving together influences from Mexico to Milan, Singapore to Seoul. Each cocktail embodies a connection: a memory of a night behind a different bar, a friendship forged across borders, a flavor discovered in a new city. Together, they create a passport through taste, inviting guests to immerse in Mark's personal accounts with each of these award-winning bars while seated in the heart of Wynn Palace.
The menu unfolds in four chapters—Classics, Sours, Alternatini, and Stirred—each tracing an everlasting style of cocktail but also a thread of cultural exchange. From timeless recipes reframed with unexpected hyperlocal twists, to riffs born in late-night conversations across continents, UNITY is both a bar program and a global dialogue.
Since its debut, Wing Lei Bar has been celebrated for marrying Wynn's spirit of refinement with a bold approach to storytelling in drinks. With UNITY, the bar reaffirms its role not only as a destination for world-class cocktails, but as a participant in shaping the future of cocktail culture worldwide.
Classics Reimagined
The Classics section opens UNITY with drinks that bridge timeless forms and contemporary encounters. Each recipe is both homage and reinvention, rooted in friendships and guest shifts that have shaped Wing Lei Bar's identity.
"The classics are where conversations begin," says Lloyd. "But what excites me is how they change when seen through another culture's lens. That's where the spark of UNITY really lives."
Tommy's Holiday is both homage and evolution: a tribute to Julio Bermejo's iconic Tommy's Margarita, created in dialogue with Bermejo himself during a dream-come-true guest shift at Asia's 50 Best Bars 2025. Each month, the cocktail takes on a new identity, shaped by flavors of a different region, becoming an endlessly traveling margarita that never stands still.
Not Quite a Penicillin reflects another half of that guest shift legacy, nodding to industry legend Sam Ross. Here, Lloyd bends Ross's smoky classic toward Cantonese traditions with oyster sauce and sand ginger. Familiar yet unexpected, it captures the balance of East and West in a single sip.
Peanut Pistol tips its hat to Americana, born from nights spent with the team at Honky Tonks Tavern. A playful riff on the Revolver, it combines bourbon, coffee liqueur, and peanut butter with a swagger that's as charming as it is bold — a cocktail that shoots straight from the hip.
Sours with a Story
In Sours, memory, tradition, and travel intermingle. From Manchester to Singapore to Seoul, these drinks trace a path through cities where Lloyd and the team have worked, collaborated, and shared tables. Each cocktail reflects not just a flavor profile, but a sense of place which serves as a reminder that sourness is universal, yet infinitely adaptable.
Manchester Tart is a nostalgic ode to Lloyd's boarding school childhood in northwest England, when afternoons ended with custard and raspberry jam. Reinterpreted with coconut-infused gin and custard-infused coconut, it recalls both home and the craftsmanship of Manchester's Schofield's Bar.
Kaya transports the gimlet to Singapore, drawing on a collaboration with the agave-and-rice-spirited Cat Bite Club. Blending sake, mezcal, and the city's beloved kaya jam, it is both comfortingly familiar and radically inventive in forming a gimlet with a soul steeped in Southeast Asia.
Dak-Galbi captures the essence of Seoul, inspired by spirited evenings with Pine & Co. A savory sour made with chili mezcal, banana-infused makgeolli, and drunken chicken marinade, it is smoky, fiery, and rich with the convivial energy of a shared Korean table.
Alternatini: Cocktails Without Borders
Here, Lloyd leans into playfulness and provocation. The Alternatini section reflects moments of experimentation during guest shifts from New Delhi to Singapore to Milan. Each drink refuses to be confined by category, instead embracing the spontaneity that happens when bartenders collide across cultures.
Unfaithful Scotsman traces its lineage to Wing Lei Bar's first guest shift with New Delhi's Sidecar, channeling Scotch whisky through Beijing-inspired flavors of chili crisp peach and cumin.
Clear & Spressy Danger was born of a misheard dare during a night with The Pontiac team in Singapore. Elevating the chaos into clarity, this espresso martini riff is reimagined with coffee-washed vodka, pandan, and soy sauce.
Basil Smash recalls the summer in Milan with Moebius, where pesto martinis met Lloyd's enduring affection for fresh basil. Parmesan gin and pesto create a savory twist that is as much an aperitivo as it is a Wing Lei Bar cocktail. Think of it as Italy reframed for Macau.
Stirred, Strong, and Spirited
The Stirred chapter grounds the journey. These are the drinks that linger, contemplative and confident, shaped by influences from Buenos Aires to the Isle of Man to Bangkok. They reflect Wynn's belief that innovation need not abandon tradition, but can instead push it into bold, uncharted territory.
Hand of God is a banana-forward ode to Buenos Aires' Tres Monos, one of Latin America's most spirited bars. With layers of banana-infused whiskey, banana peel Campari, and crème de cacao, it is both decadent and irreverent.
Miami Vice Negroni blends Italian tailoring with island indulgence, inspired by Kiki Lounge's tropical irreverence. Rum, strawberry, pineapple, and coconut stretch the Negroni into a vacation.
Soi on the Left takes the flavors of Thai soy milk tea, encountered with Bangkok's Bar Us, and folds them into Chinese tea liqueur and rum. Creamy yet refreshing, it captures the spirit of a side street in Bangkok which is vibrant, fragrant, and always alive.
A Vision of Global Unity
For Lloyd, UNITY is a statement about the role of bars in a global age.
"Every one of these cocktails is born of connection," he reflects. "Guest shifts, collaborations, nights out that turn into lifelong friendships, they remind us that cocktail culture is a global dialogue. UNITY is about inviting guests into that dialogue, one experience at a time."
With UNITY, Wing Lei Bar strengthens Wynn Palace's reputation not only as a destination of luxury, but as a cultural player shaping the future of mixology. Guests are invited to experience a global journey through flavor. One that begins, fittingly, in Macau.
MOP 150 per cocktail with 10% service charge.
