256: Beth von Benz

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 April 2015

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Beth von Benz works as a wine consultant at her company, MVB Consulting. 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, Beth on Vennz of MVP consulting on the show today.
0:27.8	Hello, how are you?
0:28.8	Fine, thank you, thank you for having me.
0:30.5	Really nice to have you.
0:32.1	So you grew up in Boston? Yes. What was that like?
0:34.4	It was okay. I grew up outside of Boston and then I summered every summer on Cape Cod in Truro which is second to the last town.
0:43.0	Oh okay.
0:44.0	So a little bit more sleepy.
0:46.0	Right definitely definitely and this point to the
0:49.0	Kennedy had taken over and half the town was gone to the national seashore so it was really beautiful
0:54.5	beaches that were like serene and a few people and it was lovely. When did you
1:00.8	head to New York? In the mid-80s. What was that like at that time? What to New York in the mid 80s?
1:03.0	And what was that like at that time?
1:05.0	It was pretty wild. I lived in the East Village. I mean, I knew people who got up in the morning and at 6 a.m.
1:11.0	dressed to go to work and got mugged on their way to the subway.
1:14.3	So it was a time pre-Juliani in New York City.
1:18.9	But there was a lot going on in these villages and around.
1:22.3	I'm not sure about the food world and the wine world at that point.
1:25.6	What was your thing at that time? What were you up to? I was working as a bartender and I was just sort of hanging out and
1:32.4	traveling and doing a bunch of things and then I started designing
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