178: Kostas Bakasietas

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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🗓️ 1 June 2014

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Kostas Bakasietas is a viticultural researcher and the owner of a vine nursery in Nemea, Greece. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Kostas Bakassietes on the show today. Hello sir, how are you?
0:28.0	Fine, thank you very much for the invitation.
0:31.0	So you run a Vine Nursery at Bacchishetus fine nursery in Greece in Namea?
0:37.0	Yes.
0:38.0	And you live in Namea.
0:39.0	Yes, I have born in Namea, 79 and all my life I was in the vignia and my dream it goes to study in the vignia with the
0:50.5	culture so that's what I did and I have studied in the University of Athens,
0:57.0	agronomists and I have studied from 98 to 2004 and then I was in Mopalee. I going to Mopalee for three years.
1:10.8	Because you speak French well yes
1:13.4	but paler france not so much okay
1:17.0	what was it like in Montpellier because then later you were in bordeaux so what was
1:20.9	yeah I was in Bordeaux in fact just for six months okay the mainly studies
1:26.2	go to Montpellier because there is a center in viticulture so I did a master in viticulture. I'm also in knowledge, but I don't say, I don't use this.
1:41.0	Okay? So you can make wine and sometimes you do but it's not something you really talk about.
1:44.7	No no no I don't really I don't like us to talk for wine.
1:48.8	So and from 2007 when I finished my studies I returned to the nursery I
1:57.8	take I continue the I get in the nursery with my brother and we now go on the nursery both of them.
2:07.0	So what is the business of a nursery? What is it that you do?
2:11.0	Oh, quite complex, okay, quite difficult now.
2:14.0	It's not like the nursery here in the USA because just a few days ago I visited
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