I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Joel Peter. Joel Peterson on the show today, the founder and winemaker at Ravenswood

Winery and then also the founder of Once in Future Wine.

So, sir, how are you?

I am doing really well how are you doing today?

Really good, thanks for asking.

So you were born in 1947?

I was born in 1947.

My mother was a nuclear chemist who had worked on the atomic bomb at Oak Ridge.

My father was a physical chemist, he made high-temperature greases for shell development. And I have to say that if they hadn't discovered wine,

it would have been really grim conversations around the dinner table because they were into what they did,

but they discovered food and wine in the early 1950s.

How did that happen that they discovered food and wine?

My mother did something quite unusual when I was born.

She stayed home with me. I once asked her about that and she said, well, she said, you know,

maybe I was ready. That's what women did during those days and I said, well, you didn't do anything women did during this day.

She said, well, she said I was ready for a break.

But you weren't much of a conversational as she said and I got bored very quickly.

So I learned to cook because it was like chemistry and she really did learn to cook like chemistry

When she taught me to cook she taught me for instance to scramble eggs I didn't learn to scramble eggs I learned a teenager protein and there were different levels of protein denatoration that gave you different textures in your egg.

So she read a book by Elizabeth David.

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