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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

137: Justin Christoph

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2013

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Justin Christoph is a Riesling specialist at New York-based retailer Acker Merrall and Condit, as well as the founder of wine importer Crystalline Selections.

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0:00.0

I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

0:05.0

I'm Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Justin Christoph on the show of Acramarrel.

0:27.0

Well, sir, how are you?

0:28.0

I'm great, thanks.

0:29.0

Great to see you.

0:30.0

Thank you for having me.

0:31.0

So you got your start in Pennsylvania.

0:32.0

Yeah, or as we like to say, pencil touch. Thank you for having me. So you got your start in Pennsylvania?

0:32.8

Yeah, or as we like to say pencil tucky, so out there in the sticks,

0:37.7

grew up there, went to school there, and had my first job in the wine business there.

0:41.7

And what was that?

0:42.8

I was selling wholesale for a small company.

0:45.7

But as probably many people know,

0:47.9

Pennsylvania is one of the last bastions

0:49.7

of liquor, state-run liquor control boards.

0:51.6

So everything had to go through the state so it was

0:54.2

so that's a blast that's good times it's quite repressive even by a New York and other

1:00.4

state standards any any words of wisdom for those who are under the yoke of the government man?

1:08.0

Well, it's a short drive to Jersey or Delaware.

1:12.0

But they make small steps there to improve it a little bit each year just to perpetuate

1:17.2

the system. So it's a little bit frustrating in that regard. And they were threatening

1:21.0

this year to dissolve it, but it seems like with the unions and everything like that it didn't gain the traction necessary.

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