336: Cedric Nicaise

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2016

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Cedric Nicaise is the Wine Director of Eleven Madison Park, a restaurant in Manhattan. 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. Center. Cedric Necays of 11 Madison Park, the wine director at that esteemed restaurant.
0:28.3	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:29.2	I'm well, thank you for having me.
0:30.6	Very nice to see you.
0:31.6	So you're actually from Belgium, you were born in
0:34.3	Belgium. I was. My family moved to the US when I was five and I would go kind of
0:38.5	back and forth between my parents and my grandparents a couple months a year in
0:42.3	Belgium until I was
0:43.2	17 or so. What were your grandparents like? Very different you know my maternal
0:49.0	grandparents were city people they lived in. My grandfather was a professor. It's really
0:55.2	interesting where like sort of my background and my brother's background comes
0:58.8	from. My grandfather was a super successful physics professor but he was also really
1:04.4	involved in wine and was a big wine collector he was a member of the Belgium
1:09.3	solely a organization of some nature and was involved in like testing and education but in general just a big wine collector.
1:16.0	Is that true? He was a wine guy back then?
1:18.0	Oh yeah, yeah, huge wine guy. Burgundy in particular had a relationship with Armand Russooussou and loved Burgundy in particular, but wine in general and had like an amazing wine collection. So there's that side of them and then there's a science side and my brother and I are like exact descendants of him me the wine guy and my brother is
1:36.0	literally a rocket scientist really yeah that's what he's up to these days works for
1:39.6	NASA okay at least he's on our side yeah it's not like he's you know North Korea
1:43.3	No, no, right still so yeah, yeah, yeah saving the world not ruining it. He defected a while ago. We haven't heard from him for years. Yeah, yeah, it's really cool to you know hear my mom talk about that and like how we're like direct descendants with my grandfather's is really interesting.
1:58.0	How does she feel about that? I think pretty good. You know, I think my career path was probably a little bit not as fun for them to watch as my
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