Where else but at Tales of the Cocktail, is someone going to be able to sit a bar and have a completely normal conversation with two of the industry’s biggest stars. Me and Dale DeGroff on the top, and me and David Wondrich on the bottom. Both, extremely cool.

Funny story. After sitting at the bar talking with Wondrich for an hour or so, he and his wife went to retire for the evening. They were replaced with a couple out of Cali that make vermouth(www.quadywinery.com). VYA is one that we sell at the Citizen. And by the way, it won vermouth of the year the past two years. Anyway, she wanted a ‘White Lady’. Which is like a ‘French 75′ without champagne. The bartender, who was very good and must of make a grand yesterday, didn’t know what was in it. So I looked it up online from my phone. The first site that the search brought me to was written by none other than David Wondrich. I looked at the lady and was like, “The guy who wrote this was just sitting where you are now”. I thought that was cool.