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contents DEPARTMENT HEADER PANEL | December 2010 Vol. 68 No. 11 SPECIAL SECTION 35 CLASS OF 2010 YEARBOOK FEATURES 5 UP FRONT – Heaven Can Wait The Sky’s the Limit for Blue Angel Vodka 60 Heading Into the Second Year of Its Single Vineyards Estate Program, Trinchero Napa Valley Is NO ORDINARY WINERY 68 At Hi-Time Wine Cellars, These Sugar- cane-based Spirits Gave Us A RUM RUSH 72 CHARMED BY CHAMBORD 76 ‘TIS THE SEASON Our First Cocktail Speed Tasting Showcases Seasonality, Personality and Funkinality 87 MAKING SPIRITS BRIGHT SWS Mixologist Bridget Albert Gets Four of the Country’s Leading Cocktailians to Share Some of the Holiday’s Merriest Secrets 90 TIGHT GENES Antica Napa Valley Is the Stuff of Piero Antinori’s DNA 92 A NEW BREED: SHOTOLOGISTS Meet the Certified Experts Who Are Raising the Bar in the Art of the Two- Ounce Pour, a Movement Developed by HARLEM Kruiden Liqueur 103 THE YOUNG GUNS OF VEGAS A Sixpack of Up-and-Comers: Two Mixolo- gists and Four Sommeliers 112 DRY SPELL Germany’s Efforts to Classify Dry Riesling Mean Trockens Have Never Tasted Better / the tasting panel / december 2010 “Rock Star Retailer” Alberto Roca of Top Hat Liquors, Miami, with his Dewar’s display. 64 COVER STORY DEWAR’S THE ROCK STAR OF SCOTCH PHOTO: TOM CLARK