1: Aldo Sohm
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 June 2012
⏱️ 81 minutes
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Summary
Aldo Sohm is the Chef Sommelier of Le Bernardin restaurant in New York City, and a partner in the Sohm & Kracher wine label.
Aldo discusses how he came to be interested in wine, and the role that Alois Kracher played in that process. He describes his wine career in Austria, as well as his decision to move to America. He speaks about how he came to work at Le Bernardin, and his relationship with colleagues there. Aldo is frank about his work ethic, and his drive to succeed in wine competitions. Wine and food pairings are also discussed.
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| 0:00.0 | I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, So a lot of times, we start these interviews at the very beginning and talk about people's |
| 0:30.0 | first experiences with mine, but I thought it might be interesting with you to talk about |
| 0:34.2 | something you've been doing recently, which is your new wine release, something that you |
| 0:38.9 | collaborated in inside of fruition. Now you have wine and bottle with your name on it out in the market and I |
| 0:44.8 | thought I might ask you how that came about and if you tell us a little bit more about it. |
| 0:49.8 | Well it's actually something which was growing in my head since quite a while, and I think I came from a wine trip back and I was totally inspired. |
| 0:59.0 | And that was... |
| 1:01.0 | That was actually, you know, I came, oddly enough. |
| 1:03.2 | I came from Argentina. |
| 1:04.2 | You came from Argentina. |
| 1:06.2 | And I, for some odd reason, I was thinking about making a wine |
| 1:11.2 | agreement in Argentina because I thought it would be possible |
| 1:14.7 | but it's like a Warner Herzog movie you know it's something revolutionary |
| 1:19.0 | I thought maybe I'm not to check about, you know, to go to do that, even though I was fascinated by Argentina, but I talked to a |
| 1:29.8 | to get a cracker, you know, we met in Queens. |
| 1:33.2 | The family is a towering history in the presence of the Austrian wine. |
| 1:38.1 | A lot of people who were subsequently imported in the Vaco, |
| 1:43.0 | ascribed the Kraher and Awa Kraher |
| 1:45.5 | as being the introduction to their American importer. |
| 1:48.6 | I think Alo is Kraher, you know, |
| 1:50.7 | when you go a little bit back to Austrian wine and see |
| 1:53.8 | and the standard with Austrian wine Austrian wine was always very well |
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