I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. So, Charles Curtis on the show today. Hello Sir, how are you?

Fantastic Levy, thanks for having me.

So you just published a book called The Original Grand Cruise of Burgundy.

Yep. And what was that like? And how did that get started? called the original Grand Cruz of Burgundy. Yeah.

And what was that like and how did that get started?

You know, it was my first book ever and something I always wanted to do.

It was the culmination of a project that really took about 15 years. I was mulling it for about

12 years and actually writing it for about three years. What was the original origin of the idea?

The original idea came about when I was studying for the MW exam

and one of the MW's who was teaching on the course

gave me a photocopied edition of LaValle's book on

the Burgundy and so I started reading and I thought it's the coolest thing ever and so I kept talking about it to people and drawing blank

stairs nobody knew what it was it had never been translated into English I was

completely aghast so I thought one day I thought well that's what I've got to do

who is Laval?

Dr. Laval, Dr. Jule Laval, was a medical doctor, a botanist, a chemist, all-around science guy in the way that people were in the 19th century and a resident of

Dijon so he loved wine wrote about wine he was not in the wine trade but but he

knew just about everybody that was and so he wrote a very

detailed description of all the vineyards who owned them and what was special about them and

then sort of before that and after that for each of the villages he would give a little of the history what other people had thought and it was really to me it was almost like the Rosetta Stone of Burgundy because it gave you all the secrets that you ever wanted to know.

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