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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

46: Joe Salamone

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2012

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Joe Salamone is a wine buyer at retailer Crush Wine & Spirits, located in Manhattan.

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0:00.0

I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Joe Salomoni on a show today from Crush Wine and Spirits.

0:27.0

Hi Joe, how you doing?

0:29.0

Not bad. How about you?

0:31.0

Good to see you.

0:32.0

Well, I mean, so email blast. How about you? You. Good to see you.

0:33.0

Well, I mean, so email blasts, there weren't so many of those before you guys started up the shop.

0:39.0

Is that always been a big focus for you or?

0:42.0

For sure. And how does that go down? I mean like when you do an email blast

0:47.0

you focus on one wine or you focus on a producer?

0:51.5

Often it's one wine sometimes we do do producers. Frankly, the more options you give people,

1:00.4

the more kind of they pull back and almost feel confused.

1:05.0

Oh, is that true? For sure.

1:06.0

It's kind of like focused their interest on this topic and

1:09.0

that whether that be one wine or two wines and kind of get them to make a decision?

1:13.4

Totally. I didn't realize that that's how it went down. Are there other keys to like

1:18.0

making a good email? For sure and sometimes it's like,

1:23.0

like we kind of send kind of somewhat informed spam

1:27.0

and that people just look at the price

1:29.0

and don't read the emails and whatever,

1:32.2

but you can really tell when an email is well-written

1:36.0

informed seems to come from the heart.

1:40.7

It does better. People actually read them. I feel like when I have seen you guys as

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