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NYCWFF: Top sips at the Southern Wine and Spirits Trade Tasting
First stop on Meal Ticket's tour of the Food Network Wine & Food Festival was an epic wine tasting with plenty of fabulous Italian vintages, Champagne, Scotch and a new vodka.
NYCWFF: Top sips at the Southern Wine and Spirits Trade Tasting
Note: This weekend team Meal Ticket is checking out the eats at the Food Network Wine & Food Festival. Check back all weekend for updates and be sure to follow the action on Twitter.
We kicked off Friday with the Southern Wine and Spirits Trade Tasting, which ended up being so much more than your typical wine tasting. Plus everything we tasted from Southern's catalogue is available in Pennsylvania, if not on the shelves of your local state store or local bar, through special order online.
The first room of the event was home to 28 tables of wines from every region in Italy including a damned fine Franciacorta from Bellavista in Lombardia and some truly wonderful Barolos.
Other stand out sips included Pig's Nose Scotch, a whisky blended with six single malts that just happens to be behind the bar at Pub and Kitchen.
In the French section of the tasting Champagne was flowing like nobody's business with magnums of Lanson and Nicolas Feuillatte.
Vodka doesn't generally inspire too much excitement around these parts but Karlsson's, a potato-based vodka out of Sweden impressed for a new reasons. Could be something to do with the fact that the bottles were suspended in a ice sculpture or an impressive cocktail made with Cocchi Americano and an orange twist.
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