I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, So we're here today with Mike Madrigal, Mr. Magic. How are you? Mike,

thanks for taking the time. My pleasure, buddy. Thanks for having me.

Here we are to sell our balloon suit your your home your place your your territory. Yeah and I thought we'd do what you do best which is talk about some wine

Hope that's okay. Yeah, I'd love to do that you know I I pulled two bottles of

wines that you know I love to smell I love to taste they really have a lot of

complexity to them and they're easy to talk about. So the first one I have is it's an Alsatian reasoning, Vinebach who, you know, I was in Alsas in October, and it was the first time I really figured out what they have there.

And you know, when people talk about reasoning, they talk about Germany and they talk about reasoning, they talk about Germany and they talk about Austria, but

Alsaz seems to be... Kind of in between. It's like almost on neither pole so it's sort of forgotten

about somewhere. Right, but you know in this country... on neither poll so it's sort of forgotten about some way.

Right, but you know in this country you have a guy like Terry These,

you know and he's really shaped an advocate.

Right of Austria and Germany. And so many people listen to that voice well that's what I'm saying but

Terry loves alsas right he goes to Boxler every year for sure but I mean he doesn't

import it he doesn't bring it it doesn't bring it right and champion

it right and no one's championing the wines and you know it's almost like you

forget about it because it's not in your face all the time and when I went there

I was like what is going on that nobody is

talking about and also great cuisine like a history of great restaurants yeah and a

lot of chefs that we think of as great French chefs are from that region John

George you know worked there for a long time.

Well, you know, it's funny, the wines are so good with food.

Is that true?

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