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

I'm Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Monica Kahane, on the show today. Hello, how are you? I'm fine. Thank you.

Nice to see you. So you're an Austrian wine importer today, but originally you were cooking in New York City.

So I have different phases in my life, and I guess the wine phase started in 2003, but before that I had a restaurant in New York where obviously wine was a part of my life at that time already.

In 2000, we closed the restaurant to open a new restaurant and unfortunately 2001 changed everything and basically I was thrown off my course and plan to open

this restaurant which up to this day is not totally out of my system.

I lived across the World Trade Center and the events of that day

obviously changed everything. I lost my apartment. I was dramatized by this day. I was in the

building when both planes hit the building and buildings and I was also there when the buildings collapsed and as a matter of fact my building was also damaged and I can't believe that I actually survived this without any harm.

Ten days after that I went to Austria

because I didn't really know what to do.

My investors pulled the investment out,

so the restaurant was out of the question and I couldn't live in

the building until the end of November. I didn't really want to stay in New York at that time for many reasons. I was, I had some sort of stress from the experience and I was very disappointed that the investors pulled the money out so I was like it's time for going back to Austria and so ten days after the event I was in Vienna kissing the floor on the airport because I was kind of afraid still.

I was dramatized by every sound, by every plane flying close and I at that time did not know where my life was going and as a matter

fact I was sitting on a park bench somewhere in Vienna,

thinking, what the hell am I going to do?

I miss New York, I miss my friends.

I, what should I do?

Should I?

And the phone rang and a tonalist friend of mine called and said,

I just heard you in Vienna.

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