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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

161: Mark Hutchens

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2014

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

Mark Hutchens is a partner in Robert Houde Wines, a wine distributor and importer based in Illinois.

Also in this episode, Erin Scala discusses some highly unusual beverages.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.4

I'm Levy Dalton.

0:06.4

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, So the other day I was drinking a cocktail called the igloo. It was served in a one foot by one foot cube of ice with an empty

0:36.6

sphere in the middle and the sphere was filled with a cocktail and he drunk it through a straw

0:40.8

that was stuck into the middle of this huge block of ice.

0:44.2

And I wondered, what were some of the craziest drinks that other people have had?

0:47.6

So I took to the streets to find out.

0:51.9

What is the craziest drink you've ever had?

0:55.0

I had a few weeks ago and it was a 1996 champagne but it wasn't sparkling and big into like sour beer so it was like real funky and it was killer and it's from Vufoni

1:06.0

It was a kartouchampanoa versus Blanchardna I think it's really right to find in the US. I don't think anyone wants to put it if you ever find one try it.

1:13.0

Probably the coolest drink that I ever saw was my friend Selso where we were working out in the

1:19.4

yard by the woods and it was a very hot humid summer day and we didn't have our

1:26.4

coolers with her with us so so so so so also took his machete and he chopped a big fat vine then went down from a tree and drank a huge stream of fresh water coming out of the vine.

1:40.8

So it was water in the woods while we were thirsty. That was the most outrageous

1:44.8

drink I ever had in my life.

1:46.6

There was a couple of inches in a glass that looked exactly like apple juice and I picked it up

1:52.4

and swigged that and it was a beer. So that was my first

1:55.2

taste of beer. I think I must have had an obsession with apple juice because I thought everything

1:59.9

that looked like it was apple juice.

2:03.0

Okay, Antoine's restaurant, New Orleans, the grasshopper.

2:07.0

Cement mixer was baileys and lime juice.

2:12.0

Ew. And it curdles in your mouth. Bailey's and lime juice. Eel!

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