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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

239: Oz Clarke

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Oz Clarke is a British wine writer and television personality. 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, So I should call you Oz Clark. That's pronunciation.

0:30.0

Oz Clark is the way to pronounce it.

0:33.0

Pronounce it.

0:34.0

Let's start by pronouncing it.

0:36.0

Oz Clark is my name and I'm glad to be here.

0:38.0

But originally it was Robin though.

0:40.0

Robert Owen.

0:42.0

They call me Oz because I play cricket like an Australian

0:46.2

What does that mean exactly? Well it means that if someone bolts at your head and tries to kill you you whack him over the, literally you whack him over the third baseline.

0:56.2

Oh, okay.

0:57.2

It's basically taking a baseball of a sort of a sluggers approach to cricket.

1:03.8

Because cricket normally you play with a straight bat.

1:06.1

I used to play softball and I used to hit loads of home runs

1:09.7

over first base.

1:11.2

And everyone said, how do you hit that?

1:12.4

Because I thought of it as trying. first base. And everyone said, how do you hit that?

1:12.6

Because I thought of it as trying to hit a cricket ball, which you have your elbow up in the air for your

1:17.6

cricket ball and the bat is vertical to the ground, the exact opposite of baseball.

1:23.2

But of course, when someone is burning at your head

1:25.4

and you're a 12-year-old and half the rest of the members of your team

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