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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

113: Grant Reynolds

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2013

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Grant Reynolds worked as a sommelier at the New York restaurant Charlie Bird. He is now a partner in that establishment, as well as others.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala finds out who can pronounce the names of famous German vineyards.

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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. And to And today I have a fun game for you.

0:27.0

So once in a while, a brave guest will try to pronounce something wine related and they'll completely

0:31.6

mangle it.

0:32.6

Like the other day somebody ordered a bottle of chablis for me.

0:36.1

And of course you know it's chablee and you going at the bottle and you pointed out and

0:39.2

you say it right.

0:41.2

And at least for a year when I started working in restaurants my dad would tell all of his friends,

0:46.0

my daughter is a Somalia.

0:48.0

So we're all used to translating mispronounced words in this business, but there's a category of wine words that's more challenging

0:54.6

than the rest. Well, I took to the streets and I got non-wine people to give their best shot

0:59.8

at pronouncing some of Germany's most famous vineyards.

1:03.3

And now for the game.

1:04.6

This is good practice for taking orders on the floor.

1:07.8

Can you name that German Vineyard?

1:11.3

How often do you drink wine?

1:13.6

As often as I can.

1:16.7

Have you ever drinking wine from Germany?

1:18.8

Mm, I don't know.

1:21.8

Well, there's amazing wines in Germany and they usually come from single vineyards with incredible names.

1:27.0

And I have a couple names here and I was wondering if you could read them off for me.

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