It was hard to miss Thirsty Girl at the New York Wine Expo last weekend: With banners, stickers, attention-getting T-shirts (“I don’t spit…”), the booth manned by high-energy women dispensing champagne was the buzziest corner of the room.   Thirsty Girl is the latest brainchild...

Of all the luck: the New York Wine Expo was going on at the same time as the New York Times Travel Show – in the same building, no less. So after the travel show, I headed to the other side of the Javits convention center for the Expo’s first Grand Tasting.