Sotto Enoteca

Italian wine bar serving extensive wines by the glass and pasta

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#Punch a good read! The Evolution of the Martini from Sweet to Dry - Whether as an old neon sign hanging in a tavern window or the emoji on your smartphone, the conical stemmed glass with a speared olive plunged into it is recognizable to people of al... https://t.co/dM97FsjdQi

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#Punch a good read! Martini, Up, with a Blue Cheese-Stuffed Olive - On a day in December last year, in the early morning hours, the peace inside St. John’s Lutheran Church in Somonauk, Illinois, was shattered when an unseen vandal threw an object thro... https://t.co/Glj87CWJA4

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#Punch a good read! A New Way to Think About Drink Sustainability - Up until now, the discussion about sustainability in bars has very much focused on three key aspects: seasonality, locality and urban foraging. But at London’s Dandelyan—which launche... https://t.co/VpZoifZxVX

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#Punch a good read! If You’re Gonna Drink a Blue Hawaii, Drink This One - Often tied to poor, late teen decision-making or filed away under “forgotten,” liqueur-based drinks don’t have the best rap. But some of these cocktails, once made with Technico... https://t.co/idyINc9pEX

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#Punch a good read! Getting Lost in Minas; Or, How to Love Mezcal - The road through Matatlán is lined with the shitty, cinder-block construction ubiquitous to Central America and Mexico. The floor of valley is flat, baked and uninspiring—a dramatic c... https://t.co/20OqnfFYI9

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#Punch a good read! Wine Doesn’t Make Itself - “We make a lazy man’s wine, since we do nothing,” proclaimed Louis-Antoine Luyt in a recent interview. The Burgundy-born winemaker, now living in Chile, credits the motto to natural wine legend, Marcel La... https://t.co/x0rjSsiAgD

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#Punch a good read! Bar Review: The New Face of the Hotel Bar - Not long ago, if you were visiting an American city and looking for a good time, the first thing you did was get the hell out of your hotel. You’d leave behind its lifeless, functional lo... https://t.co/4Hs9pn1FB9

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#Punch a good read! Lookbook: Liz Pearce, Owner & Operator at Chicago’s The Drifter - This story is published in partnership with Bacardi’s Spirit Forward Women in Leadership series, an annual summit dedicated to championing the spirits trade communit... https://t.co/WL1Z4UeBj4

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#Punch a good read! Meet Your Essential Guide to Low-ABV Cocktails - While the low-ABV cocktail is nearly as old as the cocktail itself (see: ye olde sherry classics), over the last several years, we’ve seen a new kind of “session” movement materializ... https://t.co/69dlWCkITo

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Alice Feiring Blog! We've Moved! - Fresh blog content from Alice can be found at the new The Feiring Line Natural Wine Newsletter site. https://t.co/8btTSdkIxZ

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#Punch a good read! In Search of the Ultimate Sazerac - When is the best time to drink a Sazerac? For St. John Frizell, owner of the Brooklyn bar, Fort Defiance, and a former resident of New Orleans, the cocktail’s spiritual home, the answer is all th... https://t.co/VQYbYSf9Xi

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#Punch a good read! The Retailers Changing How We Buy Wine - There are two throwback stories that wine buyers of a certain age love to tell. The first is a Rumpelstiltskin-esque fairytale in which a guy buys bottles of first-growth Bordeaux in the ’80... https://t.co/ioSxLHiBHz

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#Punch a good read! The Revival of France’s Answer to Sherry - The first thing you notice when you arrive at Domaine de Rombeau is a jumble of wine-filled orbs, each one tucked into the dirt, glowing orange-yellow in the sun like a preternatural pumpk... https://t.co/3MxZ6xxHMF

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#Punch a good read! Mastering the Dukes’ Martini with Alessandro Palazzi - Hidden within the quiet streets of London’s St. James neighborhood, the bar at the Dukes Hotel has, for the past 35 years, been home to a Martini so unique that it’s become a m... https://t.co/7nL8N2rPvg

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#Punch a good read! What We’re Into Right Now - Each month, we pull together a selection of drinking-related items that have, for one reason or another, grabbed the attention of PUNCH’s editors, who spend pretty much all day, every day surrounded by b... https://t.co/YUsjTsTsYW

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#Punch a good read! Hack Your Drink: The “Regal Shake” Technique - It’s called the “regal shake.” Drop a bit of citrus peel into a cocktail shaker to add a hint of bitterness without bitters, citrusy aroma without juice, complexity without additional ... https://t.co/M6mtRwXKin

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#Punch a good read! Three Drink Minimum: Bartending with Karri Kiyuna - This story is published in partnership with Bacardi’s Spirit Forward Women in Leadership series, an annual summit dedicated to championing the spirits trade community and accelera... https://t.co/9EJ1VTV8Wx

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#Punch a good read! Inside the Wine Cellar at Boulder’s Frasca Food & Wine - It has been 14 years since chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and Master Sommelier Bobby Stuckey teamed up to open Boulder’s iconic Frasca Food & Wine. In that time, with its u... https://t.co/v6kjxvxW00

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#Punch a good read! The Ultimate MGP Rye Whiskey Showdown - “Why do people pay more for the same whiskey distilled in Indiana from one NDP [non-distiller producer] vs another? [sic],” pondered a man on one of Facebook’s private whiskey groups. What he... https://t.co/nYSQ0cTfvb

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#Punch a good read! Mastering the Gibson with Meaghan Dorman - “I never really loved the Gibson all that much,” admits Meaghan Dorman, who has nonetheless created a picture-perfect version at her New York bar, Dear Irving. Although she’s made them fro... https://t.co/eB6b4R9wmh