I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Charlie Woods of Bonamie imports comes to tell us about a long history with

wine, sales, and import in the New York Manhattan area.

Charlie Woods on the show today of Bonami Imports.

Hello, sir, how are you?

I'm good.

Thanks for having me, Levy.

Let's talk a little bit about Charlie Woods.

How'd you get started, wine, the food, the thing?

What happened? Well, you know, I was always drawn to food and I was kicking around in my early

20s trying to figure out what to do with life and I tried to

Tried to be in academia for a little bit and that was pretty much going nowhere.

So I started working in restaurants, in restaurant kitchens.

And I got my first job at a great place which no longer is in existence at, in Cambridge, Massachusetts

I was living in Boston at the time, and I started working for a great

guy named Chris Schlesinger, who owned a restaurant called the East Coast Grill.

I know that cat.

Nice guy.

He's a great guy.

He at the time had a very cool little barbecue shack next door called Jake and Earls Dixie

Barbecue, which I got hired to you

know basically put a little coal slaw in some portion containers and and do that

kind of thing well Well, you know, long story short,

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