212: Thomas Duroux

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2014

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Thomas Duroux manages Chateau Palmer, in the Margaux appellation of Bordeaux. 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. Tom. Tomah de rue of Chateau Palmer on a show today.
0:28.0	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:29.0	Pretty good.
0:30.0	How are you?
0:31.0	Nice to see you. Thank you.
0:32.0	So you were born in Bordeaux.
0:33.6	I was born in Bordeaux, 44 years ago, yes.
0:37.2	From an Italian mother and French father.
0:40.3	And then you went to school for biology?
0:42.3	I went to school for biology. I went to school for biology.
0:44.0	That was my passion when I was a kid.
0:46.0	And yeah, and there was the start for a kind of biology
0:50.0	that is more related to a vineyard and to winemaking.
0:55.0	How did it all come about that you ended up getting into the wine track?
0:59.0	Well, you know, being in Bordeaux as a kid gave me a lot of exposure to great wines and when I was
1:07.8	16 you know as every kid of my age I wanted wanted to experience alcohol, you know, even if we... Well, it's not like here, it's
1:16.3	not illegal, but it's not really recommended. And my best friend's father at a wonderful cellar. So where's my friend? We went there several times to try to find bottles of wine and to drink it.
1:32.0	Was no idea to what it was. At one point his father saw
1:39.1	that few bottles were missing in his cellar.
1:41.6	Smart guy.
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