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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

3: Talia Baiocchi

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2012

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Talia Baiocchi was the Wine Editor of "Eater.com".

Talia contrasts online wine writing with print, and also describes some of the difficulties in becoming a wine writer. She explains why and how she came into the wine field, and answers questions like: Is food writing dead? And is there a need for wine list reviews? She discusses what a good wine list is, and how wine lists may look in the future. Talia also hashes out some recent changes within the wine scene.

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I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, you know, you know,

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and the and the

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the

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and

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the

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the and the

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and

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and and uh... uh...

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uh... uh... I think you missed your calling. I think that you could have been like a really good

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you look like very at home with that. If you had been here an hour ago you wouldn't

0:32.3

have said that. Let me tell you. I heard. Yeah. All right, so we're here today with the fabulous,

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talented, and very smart and kind of like my hero.

0:43.4

Tala Beoki, thanks for taking the time to be here.

0:46.2

Thanks.

0:46.9

So you've been recently given the role of Wine Editor

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for Eater, International actually,

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and you've been writing for them for a couple of years and now they've kind of given you this really great position and congratulations.

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Thank you.

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What's it been like writing for online publications versus print?

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You did some work for the Chronicle in San Francisco,

1:09.2

you did a little bit for Wine and Spirits,

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some freelance articles, but most of those were in print.

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