430: Becky Wasserman-Hone Gives a Burgundy Tour

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🗓️ 29 September 2017

⏱️ 96 minutes

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Summary

Becky Wasserman-Hone is the founder and co-director of Becky Wasserman & Co., an exporter of wines from Burgundy and other regions of France and Europe.

Becky looks back on her career in this interview, and talks about what would be become a key period for Burgundy, as it increasingly found an audience amongst American consumers. She also recalls some of the keys friends and mentors she made along the way, including Michel Lafarge, Gerard Potel, Hubert de Montille, Lalou Bize-Leroy, Aubert de Villaine, Richard Olney, and others. And Becky divulges her personal descriptions of key Burgundy communes, such as Gevrey-Chambertin, Flagey-Echezeaux, Vougeot, Nuits-Saint-Georges, Vosne-Romanee, Beaune, Volnay, Chambolle-Musigny, and more.

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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. The Becky Wasserman Hone on the show today. Hello, how are you?
0:28.0	I'm very well, thank you.
0:29.5	Very nice to see you.
0:30.5	And it's so nice to see you again.
0:32.4	So it turns out that I live in the Upper East Side of New York and you were born and lived in the Upper East
0:36.7	side of New York.
0:37.7	I did indeed.
0:38.7	I was born in 1937 in January and for what I remember I think that my family was very well
0:48.2	off for a short period of time so I remember a Norwegian nanny and all sorts of good things like that and then you know sort of a gentle slide to the other side.
1:01.0	My father was a Wall Street man, had his own firm, and specialized in railroad bonds which became obsolete, and it was very hard for him to adjust.
1:12.0	Your mother was a ballerina. She was a prima ballerina in Romania, which was really used to be hungry, and she was put into the court of ballet at the age of four.
1:22.8	Eventually she worked in Cabaret.
1:25.0	She did because she left Romania, moved to Germany,
1:28.3	and nobody wanted a classic, a classical ballerina. She used to talk about, oh that was the time of Isidora Duncan and she was just
1:37.4	stamping around the stage, no style whatsoever. So she went to work, she had to, and began in cabaret and then met an out of work for Yanez
1:47.7	composer and went on the road in Germany for 10 years doing not classical ballet but doing everything from lullabies to all that sort of thing.
1:58.4	What do you remember about the childhood?
2:00.6	I remember really the childhood. I remember really the schools I went to more than anything and those experiences.
2:10.0	First I went to a school that was run by an English woman called Mrs. Glaves, and it was full of children
2:15.5	who had been sent away from London during the Blitz, and that was quite good, and then I went
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