I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Katerina Prum from Germany's Mosel, J.J Prum, is here today with us.

Hello, how are you?

I'm fine. How are you? Great to have you here. Thank you. So you're a lawyer but you

decided to get involved with the family wine business. How did that all come about?

I grew up of course in the wine business together with my two sisters but after high

school I thought I should do something else get a different experience in life leave

home leave the estate and went to law school.

And I did that for a couple of years, but then the more distance I actually had,

the more I found out about the enthusiasm I had for this life with wines and so I I decided to return.

That's interesting. How did that come about that leaning on that enthusiasm? I think it was a long process first if you grow up

in a state like that it's all you know that's your life you know and I think I needed a distance to really see it from a different perspective because you see it as a kid from the inside but you don't see it really from the outside and you have a different connection which I of course wasn't aware of but I actually wanted to leave

and to just get a different experience and I think it was a combination of having this distance as such and just seeing it from the outside and being confronted with a different life.

Maybe also missing the wine business or the wine world somehow with having the distance because I at

law school had no contact with wine except one one or another time having it in a pub, but usually the wine was very bad,

so I started to drink beer even, which I've never expected before.

So I think it was a combination of this and then also because of my law studies I did American law in addition to German law and that brought me to America first and so it was also this yeah this first

confrontation with wine in foreign countries and really being involved in some

wine tastings which which was more or less a coincidence that I did it, but I met a lot of people and also the people connection I saw from a different perspective because before I was the daughter at home and I was maybe saying

hello and goodbye but not really involved.

So after that I was leading wine tastings, pouring wines, meeting people that knew our wines very long and that made a huge difference for me.

Because your dad, Dr. Manford Prum, doesn't travel much outside of Germany, so this may have been the first opportunity for certain people in the United States

where you're living at that time to meet a prune.

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