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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

12: Jan D'Amore

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 August 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Jan D'Amore is the owner of Jan D'Amore Wines, which focuses on importing Italian wines from a base 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, Yandayamore joins us today to talk about rock and roll, Italian wine and the life of a small importer.

0:31.6

Somebody I always enjoyed listening to, let's hear what he had to say today. So I'm here today with Yonday Amori who runs

0:37.0

Deamore selections, a Italian wine importer in the New York area. Hi, yeah.

0:43.0

Hi, I love him.

0:44.0

Nice to see.

0:45.0

Likewise.

0:46.0

So you moved to New York to work in a rock and roll band?

0:51.0

Yeah, it's a long story. I'm a full-fledged immigrant I left Italy maybe 23 24 years ago and

1:01.7

New York was my second port of arrival. I first arrived in Los Angeles.

1:08.0

Okay. Yeah, Los Angeles. It was all about rock and roll back then.

1:12.0

Sure. What kind of rock and roll back then. Sure.

1:13.0

What kind of rock and roll are we talking about?

1:15.0

Like who was big at that time?

1:17.0

The bands that I, I mean, we went to LA was hair metal.

1:21.0

And we were... I remember hair metal. Okay.

1:23.0

I remember that time.

1:24.0

We had hair, but we didn't play that kind of metal.

1:27.0

So we were kind of an extreme heavy metal, speed, demons from Rome and we don't have pop songs, we don't have hooks,

1:37.5

with the enough makeup on, we just had long hair and a crazy look and... What was the clothing apparel like at that time?

1:46.4

Well we are spreading flowers on the sunset strip back in 1987 sharing the sidewalk with war and with guns and roses.

1:55.6

Wow!

1:56.6

They were like, we're all like struggling bands.

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