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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

340: Eugenio Jardim

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2016

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Eugenio Jardim was a longtime sommelier in California, at Jardinière, and is now US Ambassador for the Wines of Portugal.  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, Yugeni O'Jardim, longtime Sommee on the

0:27.0

west coast on the show today.

0:28.5

Hello, sir, how are you?

0:29.5

I'm very well, how are you?

0:30.7

It's nice to see you.

0:31.5

It's nice to be here. Nice to be seen in New York City, especially in a beautiful day like this.

0:36.1

He picked a good day. Yeah. So you grew up in Brazil? I did. I grew up in Brazil. I lived in Brazil until I was 25 and then I honestly got really bored with my life not that I had a bad one I was working I was partying a lot and it was a good life.

0:53.0

What part of Brazil?

0:54.0

The central part very close to Brasilia in a city called Goyania.

0:58.0

It's a city of about, I would say like two or three million people

1:02.0

that's small for Brazilian standards.

1:04.7

You have some mixed cities down there? Yeah very much so. What was it like when you were a kid?

1:09.1

Growing up it was fantastic because we always had a farm and I grew up, you know, most people here in America

1:15.3

grow up having a little puppy in the house. I grew up having a horse on the farm and a cow

1:20.1

that was given to me when I was one and then I saw the babies coming up and all of that and every

1:24.9

vacation was either on the farm or on the beach in Rio and so it was fun. I had family

1:30.9

all over the country so it gave me opportunities to travel a lot.

1:34.8

You drink wine as a kid or?

1:36.4

Oh God no I hated wine.

1:39.0

Is that true? Oh, I hated it. My dad insisted that we tasted wine every Sunday with him because of his

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