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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

17: Justin Chearno

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2012

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Justin Chearno was a wine buyer at Uva wines, a wine retail shop in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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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, Justin Chairnellon show today. Thanks for stopping by. Of course. So you're over at

0:31.0

the Uva Wines there on Bedford Avenue.

0:33.0

That's right.

0:34.0

Why don't you tell me a little bit about it?

0:35.0

UVA is, I guess the best way to put is, you know, neighborhood shop.

0:40.8

It really is just, it speaks to the Williamsburg neighborhood. We've been there for almost 10 years now.

0:47.0

We've got about 750 wines on the floor.

0:50.0

Maybe another, depending on the time of year, three to four hundred in the on the list.

0:56.0

We have a reserve list stuff we keep downstairs and about probably 300 or under under

1:01.9

around 1314.

1:04.3

It's hard to say every year they get more

1:05.4

and wine gets more expensive and but used to be

1:08.1

300 under 12 now now it's like 300 under 1314.

1:12.1

And my personal preference is we skew toward organic, natural,

1:15.4

and biodynamic wines.

1:17.0

So you're in Williamsburg?

1:18.4

Correct.

1:19.4

So let me just get this out of the way so I don't do it for the rest of the show.

1:22.8

Okay.

1:23.3

Hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster, hipster.

1:25.3

All right, I just have to get the...

1:27.3

It's fine.

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