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I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

54: Steve Wildy

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2013

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

At the time of this interview, Steve Wildy was the Beverage Director of the Vetri Family of restaurants, based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Steve discusses his Irish roots, love of Italian wine, and explains why he won't drink Guinness anymore.

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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, Steve Willy on the show today from the Vettree Family restaurants in Philadelphia.

0:29.0

Hello sir.

0:30.0

How you doing love you?

0:31.0

Nice to see you.

0:32.0

Thanks for having me on.

0:32.8

So you beverage director for a fairly large group

0:37.6

of Italian themed restaurants quite often

0:40.1

in the Philly area, but how did you get there?

0:43.2

I mean, were you always in restaurants or what was the story?

0:46.7

Not always, so long arduous process.

0:50.4

I was born and raised in Northern Ireland.

0:52.4

Okay. And I moved to Northern Ireland. Okay.

0:53.0

And I moved to the states in 92.

0:55.0

I moved to Pittsburgh.

0:56.0

Where are you eating in Ireland back in the day?

0:59.0

Ireland, you know, it took me a long, long time to realize it,

1:01.0

but Ireland has a really great culinary tradition

1:04.3

awesome dishes awesome food but it's very kind of quiet very restrained culinary

1:08.9

seen there it's you know if you go out in Ireland you're typically going

1:12.1

somewhere international you're going to like an Indian restaurant

1:14.9

Or maybe you're going to like a Chinese restaurant or I remember it was a really big deal back then

1:20.0

Maybe like 89 90 the first McDonald's opened in a Belfast and that was maybe like

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