I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, David Lily takes a moment out of a busy wine buyer's schedule to join us and tell

us a little bit about what is one of the most fascinating retailer histories in the business.

David brings a phenomenal amount of knowledge to the subject and is someone that I personally

find to be a huge inspiration in his work at

Chamber Street Wines in Tribeca in Manhattan. Somebody I'm always pleased to take a

moment to listen to and I hope you will too.

So we're here today with David Lily,

and David is a brilliant icon in the retail world.

Now, come on you are. Come on, in the retail world now come on you are come on in the retail world I

I hate the word icon that's a really awful word well don't use that to get not

going to get really mad scratch that is the owner and, co-founder and co-owner of

Chamber Street Wines on Chamber Street in Tribeca in Manhattan and it's a

business he founded in 2001. So you started in 2001 and it was Tribeca, Manhattan and maybe that was somewhat

of a difficult time. Is that possible? Yeah, but Jamie Wolf, who is my partner, co-owner, felt very strongly that that was a good location.

He had to convince me and the place was available and that

was really fortunate for us to find a space that had been a store that had failed and maybe I was a little nervous about you know okay why had the

store failed. But Jamie was convinced that the neighborhood would support us and we had the beginnings of a national clientele

already in place from my years at the previous shop at Garnett.

Oh, okay, so I was pretty confident that we had

um, a concept that would work that we, you know we knew who our clients would be

so I think it was it was a relatively safe bet for us despite my misgivings about the

neighborhood not I mean despite my misgivings about the neighborhood.

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