I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, So how do you think about the blog? How did you get started with it?

I was working for a government agency and you're part of the CIA. I'm not at liberty to discuss.

And you were traveling a lot at the time. No I wasn't doing any traveling and I wasn't feeling

stimulated by my job at that point. Weird, government agency not

stimulated by your job? Well to be fair you know I was there for five years and for the first half of that time I was as as involved and creatively challenged and stimulated intellectually as any other work I've ever done.

But equally in the last half of it,

it was equally kind of soul crushing.

And you know, while I was trying to figure out what I was going to do,

I needed to sort of keep learning about something

if it wasn't going to be what was going on at work and I wanted to learn about wine.

And I was finding that there wasn't a way that I was finding easy to do that.

I didn't want to read, you know, mainstream wine media.

I just had nothing, it wasn't speaking to me at all, and so I was looking at blogs.

And some of them I found that I liked a lot, many also weren't speaking to me so much, and

I realized that the ones that I liked were sort of describing wine in

contextual terms and personal experiences with it and sometimes were inspiring me

to want to try things and so I just decided to kind of keep a diary slash try to do some of that

myself not assuming that I had something to teach anybody because that is still not the way I think of it.

More just about, I do have experiences though, and if I'm going to be honest about what I'm thinking

and learning about, if I find that interesting when I read what someone else does that, then maybe someone, you know,

and actually I wasn't even thinking about anyone else reading it.

I never advertised it, it's done anonymously, you know, it was really was and mostly still is for myself although I will say that you know

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