53: Chris Barnes

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2013

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Chris Barnes is National Sales Manager for Jose Pastor Selections, an importer of Spanish wines.

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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, Chris Barnes is on the show today.
0:25.0	Chris has had a long career in retail at Chamber Street Wines, but now he's off on his own working with Jose Pasture as a national sales manager.
0:33.3	Suites-Del-Marquez.
0:36.1	You do that quite well.
0:38.1	Yes.
0:39.1	Well I was saying it to this Colombian guy and I was like,
0:41.8	Swerte's-de-Marquez and he's like, huh? What? I'm like,
0:44.6	Suertes de Marquez? He's like, oh, you mean Suertes de Marquez?
0:49.0	And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly. There are accents over the end. It's just that...
0:56.0	Going to Montforte and asking for Conterno and they're like, oh, you mean Conterno.
1:00.5	Right. Okay, great. Okay.
1:03.0	It was that different, was it?
1:05.0	Yeah, yeah, so this is the Siete Fuentes, a new project that we love.
1:11.0	A whole cluster and concrete tanks and foot trod and shit like that.
1:17.0	And it's from the Canary.
1:19.0	From the Canary Islands, Tenerife.
1:20.0	Making the birds thing over there, are you?
1:22.0	Well, the Canary Islands... Tenerife. Making the birds thing over there are you? Well the canary islands are not
1:25.2	named after birds. I did not know that. What are they named after? There's a dude
1:28.6	named canary that walked around the earth? No, the the Greeks when they showed up to the islands and they're exploring going to the end of the world.
1:38.0	They found the canaries and they found the islands were overrun with wild dogs.
1:44.4	Oh I didn't know that.
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