502: Matt Dees Likes How Grapevines Think

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 1 April 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Matt Dees is the winemaker at JONATA, The Hilt, and The Paring, wineries which are located in California's Santa Barbara County.

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0:00.0	coming up in April, I, your host, Levy Dalton, will be leading two amazing wine dinners in New York
0:07.3	City. On April 7th, I will be opening up two of the greatest vintages for Wright Bank Bordeaux
0:13.1	of our time, 1998 and 1989, and I'll be serving the wines over at dinner in the private dining room
0:20.5	of the esteemed Gramercy Tavern restaurant,
0:24.0	which is one of my favorite places.
0:26.2	On April 28th, I'll be pouring a vertical of Chateau Margot back to the 1983 vintage,
0:31.9	alongside Chateau Palmer Vintages, back to, and including 1989.
0:37.1	Go to All Drink to Thatpod.com and click on the wine dinners tab for all the information about
0:43.6	these dinners in April.
0:45.8	That's ILL Drink to That POD.com and then select the wine dinners tab to find out all the
0:52.8	details and to purchase seats to attend these really fabulous wine dinners tab to find out all the details and to purchase seats to attend
0:55.1	these really fabulous wine dinners in New York City.
0:58.9	And I look forward to seeing you there.
1:03.4	I'm Levi Dalton, and this is all drink to that, where we get behind the scenes of the wine
1:09.1	business.
1:26.2	Music where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Matt D's on a show today. Matt is the wine maker at Honata, the Hilt, and the pairing. Hello, sir. How are you?
1:31.8	I'm well. I'm honored to be here. Thank you for having me. So you work in California today, and you have for some
1:36.3	decades, but originally you grew up in Kansas City. I grew up in a place where you kind of learned how to
1:43.9	enjoy the small things in life,
1:45.6	kind of the peaceful moments.
1:47.2	There were no oceans nearby, no mountains, so you learned to find pleasure in the simple
1:54.6	things.
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