Approach Guides wants to welcome all travel bloggers that are attending TBEX ’10 to our home city of New York! Although we will miss seeing you this year (we are in Mexico writing a guide on Mayan architecture); we want to welcome you with a list of our favorite NYC wine bars for meeting up with friends and colleagues.

Given that many of the TBEX events are taking place downtown, here is a list of our favorite spots, which we originally shared on Andy Hayes’ Sharing Travel Experiences blog:

• Tribeca. The recently-opened Terroir Tribeca has a fun wine list put together by a very knowledgeable staff.
• SoHo. Boqueria. Spanish tapas bar/restaurant offers many Spanish wines that you don’t typically see outside of Spain.
• Lower East Side. ‘inoteca. An all-Italian wine bar-restaurant offers a fabulous wine list that has some really unique offerings and some great values.
• Greenwich Village. Gottino is a super-cute, well-run wine bar. Go twice and the owner will welcome you by name!
• East Village. Veloce, one of New York’s most famous Italian wine bars is one of our absolute favorites in the city. They have expanded their brand to include a Spanish wine bar (Bar Carrera, located next door) and a pizzeria (Veloce Pizzeria).

If you have an iPhone, check out our iPhone wine app, Approach Guides Wine, which will help you navigate the wine lists at each of these places like an expert. AG Wine consistently ranks within the top wine apps on iTunes and is now ON SALE (for the next few days only)!

For more information on what’s going on in NYC, check out GoBackpacking’s schedule of TBEX-related events and Brooklyn Nomad’s NYC Tips.