10: Rita Jammet
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 27 July 2012
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Rita Jammet is the owner of the La Caravelle Champagne brand, and the onetime co-owner of La Caravelle restaurant, which was located in New York City.
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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, you know, you know, |
| 0:14.0 | and the and the |
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| 0:18.0 | and and and and |
| 0:20.0 | you you you and you you So we're here today with Rita Jame, sort of an icon of both restaurants and wine in the New York and Manhattan scene. |
| 0:33.0 | Thank you so much for taking a time to meet with us. |
| 0:35.0 | Béjou, and thank you very much for having me. |
| 0:37.0 | I'm very excited to be here. |
| 0:39.0 | So what was your original vision for El Calcarevel in 84? |
| 0:41.0 | What were you thinking about? |
| 0:42.0 | In 84, actually actually it's more stepping into a new situation for us. |
| 0:47.2 | Yeah. Meaning with a history already, heavy history. As when Lacharvelle started in 1960, it was instantly a success thanks to the Kennedy family patronizing it from day one. |
| 0:59.0 | Do they keep wine there as well? I always heard about like their cellar and did they have special wines in the cellar I look at |
| 1:05.0 | Well in 1960 a couple of years later you had Petru 61 on the you know at that time it was still very young but they were building an amazing list that they had a beautiful seller |
| 1:17.0 | Wow and it just must have been kind of a golden error for like pricing of those kind of wines to |
| 1:21.6 | Definitely definitely you can kind of wines to accessibility. |
| 1:22.8 | Definitely. |
| 1:23.8 | You can kind of like go through multiple integers of Patruz and it would be like $20. |
| 1:28.0 | You know? |
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