244: Elin McCoy
I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk
Levi Dalton
4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2015
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Elin McCoy is a wine and spirits columnist for "Bloomberg News" and a contributor to other publications, including "Zester Daily." She also authored the book "The Emperor of Wine: The Rise of Robert M. Parker, Jr. and the Reign of American Taste."
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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 going to Ellen McCoy on the show of Bloomberg News and also Zester Daily. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello, how are you? |
| 0:28.8 | I'm very good. |
| 0:29.8 | How are you? |
| 0:30.8 | Nice to see you too. |
| 0:31.8 | So you once told me that you viewed wine as a window onto adulthood. |
| 0:35.6 | What was that like for you as a child? You know my parents did drink wine, which was |
| 0:45.0 | that only adults, |
| 0:48.0 | that only adults seemed to get the glass with the stem |
| 0:52.0 | and only adults, you knowde and odd and the first time I ever felt like |
| 0:58.0 | Uying and aing was when I was 14 with my dad who took me to a French restaurant in Chicago called Jacques and which is what all French restaurants I think were called at the time. |
| 1:12.0 | It was the other that or Shay Jacques, right? |
| 1:13.6 | One of those two. |
| 1:14.3 | Yeah, one of those two. |
| 1:15.4 | This didn't have the shape. |
| 1:17.2 | But it did have on the menu on the wine list, |
| 1:20.4 | if we say. |
| 1:21.7 | And my dad was a fan and ordered a bottle |
| 1:25.4 | and told the waiter to bring a glass for me. |
| 1:29.0 | And he then went about telling my father that he the waiter was not going to be allowed to pour a glass of wine for me since I was clearly underage and my father said that's okay I'll pour it and that was |
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