164: Samuel Tinon

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2014

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Samuel Tinon produces both dry and sweet wines at his Samuel Tinon winery in the Tokaj region of Hungary.

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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, Samuel Tynon of the Tynon Winon Winery in Tokai, Hungary.
0:28.5	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:29.6	Hello, how are you?
0:30.6	I'm fine.
0:31.6	Thank you for being here. Thank you very much. I'm very
0:33.4	pleased to be in New York. It's my first time and I'm very happy. Welcome to the United
0:38.4	States. So you were born in Bordeaux. Yes born in Bordeaux in 69. Wine producing family in Santa
0:46.7	Qualement and my sister run today's estates and and we are a sweet wine producer in Baltimore in Central
0:54.9	Kolimon. So I'm quite very comfortable on both it is wine.
0:59.2	Yeah so you had a history in making betritus wine from the family and did you go to
1:05.2	Vittic Culture School in France? Yes I study in Bordeaux and then in Montpellier and
1:10.5	get my study down and then I moved to Spain for a year and then I moved to Chile because my intention was to move to Chile because it's quite a paradise to make wine over there.
1:27.0	And since I was charged, that was something very important for me that finished my study and go to cheer and then I
1:36.8	start an hour over there and in France at that time we had to do one year in the army in France and then it was a possibility to make a cooperation and then I tried to make all the things to go to Chile for two years and the French administration was refusing the paperwork.
1:58.4	So I had to go back to France and the people I was working with in Chile offer me to try the same but in
2:07.3	Tokai in Hungary. So to be honest I didn't know nothing about Tokai. I didn't know that today's... I knew the name, but just even I didn't know that it's made out of both of this.
2:22.0	And then I just jump in at the right time. I was the first French
2:27.0	before privatization, before many things happened in Tokyo. It was in 91 and it was just after the Soviet Army left the country in September.
2:40.0	And I arrived in October, so that was just the right time and more less that's the basics why why
2:49.2	Tokai and why I put my figure on that story.
2:55.0	And you had been doing some consulting in other parts of the world, like in the United States and in Italy.
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