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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

264: Justin Berlin

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 May 2015

⏱️ 82 minutes

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Justin Berlin is a founding partner of Spanish Wine Exclusives, a Spanish wine importer. 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, Justin Berlin of Spanish wine exclusives on the show today. Hello sir, how are you?

0:28.0

I am very well, very happy to be here and as always happy to talk about Spanish wine.

0:33.3

Nice to see you.

0:35.0

So you have a company called Spanish wine exclusives?

0:38.0

Yeah, my company is Spanish wine exclusives.

0:41.0

Started by myself and my Spanish partner who lives in Rioja.

0:46.0

She is a veteran of the export side of Spanish wine. She used to work for a number of different wineries

0:56.3

and winery groups traveling all over the world, which is one of the reasons why

1:01.2

our portfolio of wines is not only here in the states but we're also

1:04.8

selling in other countries.

1:07.6

So we've chosen our portfolio to be special low production things. We started off not trying to be the big

1:17.4

players and doing big moves. We started small bit by bit with really cool producers that had really high quality stuff and

1:27.0

we're not kind of fitting in the typical importers concept of what made it worthwhile. In other words, two small quantities,

1:36.0

especially for the bigger players who were in multiple markets and all that.

1:40.0

Our concept is to bring in, even though they may be price competitive, but wines that offer a little edge and quality, a little more bang for the buck, a little more wine for the money.

1:53.0

So that's kind of our strategy at the moment for expanding.

1:57.5

And you're also sussing out older vintages.

2:00.3

And that's our other specialty that actually has been a big hook into the market for us,

2:05.7

has been finding old collections.

2:09.7

Old Rioja is probably my favorite, the thing I love and seek out the most and have struggled

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