Monday night Global Traveler hosted its 16th annual Wines on the Wing Airline Wine Survey at City Winery, New York City — what a terrific way to start the week! Of course, this wasn’t the first time the GT team reveled in City Winery’s atmosphere; we hosted our survey at this location in 2017 as well, and it was great to be back.

This year, 23 distinguished wine experts blind tasted and scored the wines served in the participating airlines’ international and domestic first and business classes; the blind taste competition took place in the afternoon, followed by a lovely cocktail reception.

In between laughs, self-serve wines and Champagne and passed hors d’oeuvres, clients, members of our Globility Board and GT’s friends and family were able to enjoy the residual wine submitted for the blind tasting.

Do you pay attention to the quality of your wine during flights? I have started to take notes! Head to globaltravelerusa.com to read last year’s recap and start your predictions for this year’s winners.

I won’t give you too many details; be on the lookout for our August Food & Wine Issue to get to know this year’s winners’ circle and for a more detailed recap of this event.

— Yasser Ogando, digital account executive