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I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm going to David Beckwith of Grand Crew Wine Consulting and Pick a Bottle.

A little sir, how are you?

Great, thank you for having me, Levy.

Nice to have you here.

So you grew up in New York and how did you get into the wine thing?

What happened there?

I was always surrounded by wine a little bit.

I'd say growing up.

My father would drinks a bottle,

have it on the table and stuff like that parents enjoying

wine meals and I definitely remember though when it really hit was when I was

studying abroad in Florence years ago junior year semester, semester abroad, you know, it was spring of 2000, I guess it was at that point.

So a little while ago, and I took a wine class one evening, you know, I'm like, oh, I'm in Italy here. I'm going to learn about food and wine a little bit what I can you know

I was an art history kind of history double major so it all it all fit perfectly if you will I find that those

things do fit really well yeah art, art history, like, you know, wine,

the aesthetics of wine and art together,

you know, history, vintages, things like that.

So they definitely work.

And I remember this one class I took it was just

standard wine class that they had at Syracuse University where I did it at and it was

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