217: Stellios Boutaris
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 16 November 2014
⏱️ 38 minutes
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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, Stelios Butaris on the show today. Hello Sir, how are you? |
| 0:27.0 | Hi, how are you living? |
| 0:29.0 | Nice to have you here. |
| 0:30.0 | Thank you. |
| 0:31.0 | So your family has for a while now owned the Kiryani Estate in Western Greece. |
| 0:36.2 | Northwestern Greece, yes. |
| 0:37.2 | Curiana State, located on Nausa, the appellation of Nausa, one of the oldest appellations in Greece, |
| 0:45.0 | which is situated about 100 kilometers west of the Saloniki. |
| 0:49.0 | And it was your dad who purchased that property. |
| 0:51.0 | Yes, he purchased the property in the 60s. |
| 0:54.0 | My family has been making wine for five generations now. |
| 0:57.4 | My great-great grandfather started in 1879. |
| 1:00.8 | He was the first one to bottled Greek wine and sell it under the now |
| 1:06.2 | separation. Back then during the Ottoman years I mean Greece was not |
| 1:11.3 | liberated at that time in North Greece. |
| 1:13.0 | Most of the wine was sold in bulk without any branding whatsoever. |
| 1:18.0 | However, Salonica, the Saloniki, always was very much of a cosmopolitan town which is the city in |
| 1:25.5 | northern glee the largest city of Greece and your dad's the mayor |
| 1:28.9 | this day yes anyway at that time, my Gregra father, he would take champagne bottles, |
| 1:38.6 | huge champagne bottles and actually wash them up and bottle butari now at that time and sell it in the local market. |
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