Palazzi Vesper Meets Bell & Ross Bellytanker in This Special Limited Edition

Mark Cho shares with a laugh, “Because I’ve been coming since I was a teenager, Alessandro has given me special dispensation to have two and a half martinis. But the first time I drank the final half martini, I ended up not inside the taxi waiting for me but under it.”

I, too, have succumbed to Alessandro’s titanic powers. One Pitti Uomo, Mark Cho had hired Palazzi to guest bartend at Harry’s Bar Florence. I was supposed to attend a symposium on men’s style in an hour and decided to stop in. Palazzi had made me my very first Vesper. His secret is that instead of Lillet Blanc, he substitutes a special amber vermouth he had created in collaboration with Sacred Gin of London. The flavor profile was subtly nuanced. The drink has this almost magical uplifting effect. I began sipping on this drink and after what I thought was 15 minutes, I checked my phone, surprised to see several missed calls from my fellow panelist and founder of WM Brown magazine, Matt Hranek. I rang him back and he explained that our symposium had already started and the organizers were panicking over my whereabouts. I checked the time and realized I had spent an hour talking to Mark and Alessandro.