112: Daniel Johnnes

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2013

⏱️ 83 minutes

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Summary

Daniel Johnnes is the Wine Director for Daniel Boulud's Dinex Group, as well as an importer, and the founder of La Paulee Burgundy themed events in New York, San Francisco, and Aspen.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala speaks with actress Crystal Arnette about Crystal's portrayal of a sommelier in a production for the stage.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. So, So today we have Crystal Arnett with us. She's a fabulous actress. You may have
0:29.3	seen her in the House of Van Macromay at the Bushwick Star or down at the Flea Theater where she's been a company member since 2010.
0:37.0	Crystal, welcome.
0:38.0	Hello.
0:39.0	We are so happy to have you with us today.
0:41.0	And I also heard that you do some singing too. I do actually. What fans do you sing with?
0:45.9	Well I have this folk chamber collective as I like to call it. It's
0:51.4	basically my simple folk songs and then I have a roster of musicians I I
0:57.8	Perform with and they bring a lot of new elements to the songs and we sort of become very big or very small depending but
1:04.9	when it's at its largest we've got guitar cello mandolin violin
1:10.3	electric guitar drums it's just sort of this, this, yeah, a collective is a good way to put it.
1:16.0	So I front, I front that band, yeah.
1:18.6	So today we have Crystal here because she's playing a very special role in the play certifiable that's running right now in the New York International Fringe Festival.
1:28.0	Crystal, you're playing a sommelier in this play, isn't that right?
1:31.0	That is, that is correct.
1:32.0	So tell me, I'm so interested, how much did you know about
1:35.3	wine before you started working on this play? Well, I actually have a pretty good wine background.
1:40.5	I, like a lot of actors, have worked in restaurants over the years. I actually worked at Veritas NYC for a few months when they reopened in 2011. Did you work with Rubin? I did work with Rubin.
1:57.3	Oh cool! Hey Rubin are you listening? I know. We got Chris Larnette here.
2:00.7	What's up? Hi, I really loved working there because of the wine, because of the incredible wine program
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