I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Patrick Capiello on the show Patrick is the wine director at Gilt

restaurant in midtown Manhattan. Hello sir how are you?

Levy how are you? Nice to see you. It's great to be here. What are you? Lavi, how are you? Nice to see you. It's great to be here.

What are you up to these days at the old guilt restaurant?

Almost four years now, so...

A lot of awards and wine that flowed under the bridge.

In the meantime, however.

Yeah, it's been we you know I I think

I had some particular goals that I wanted to try and reach and I think I reached most of them so yeah

it was it's you know it was an intense few years, it was it's you know, it was a it was an intense few years, but a but a fruitful

Four years I would say yeah. What are the things you're you're most proud of so far?

Um, you know, I mean, it's, I guess, the grand award, I think it's pretty clear.

I've made that pretty clear with...

A tattoo for instance.

Yeah, yeah, I guess we gotta talk about that right away. Yeah, yeah, I guess we got to talk about that right away. Yeah, yeah, I did that. I and I was sober when I did it. That's the best part, but yeah, yeah. So the Grand Ward was obviously an issue. You know, it's... So the Wine Specter, yeah,

Wine Spectator, yeah, wine Specter's gonna work. I think, you know, in our generation,

and I think you and I are kind of in the same generation, I think our paths were a little

different, but we're that, we're that kind of next generation of

Somalay's post actually probably third I guess after like you know Daniel and

Larry and then and and David Gordon and you know I think it was a third way yeah I think it was kind of a smaller wave to or at least a lot of those people have left. Yeah. I mean yeah I mean well you I think I think you know Eric Zillier is still doing great things and then Josh Nadell I think all those guys

that were a crew and then all the guys that came up through Veritas.

It was kind of those that the guys that worked under Robert and Tim I think they were the

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