82: John Sellar

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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🗓️ 12 April 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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John Sellar is New York Metro General Manager of Frederick Wildman & Sons, a wine and spirits importer and distributor based in New York.

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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, John Seller on the show today of Wildman. He's the director of sales at
0:28.6	Frederick Wildman based in New York, closer. How are you? I'm doing fantastic today, I love you.
0:33.0	How are you?
0:34.0	Good to see you, too.
0:35.0	So you're a local boy.
0:36.0	You grew up Lower Manhattan?
0:38.0	I did.
0:39.0	Starvesantown, 18th Street and 1st Avenue.
0:42.0	And how did you get in the wine business? You're doing a little bartender for a while? 18th Street and First Avenue.
0:42.6	And how did you get into the wine business?
0:43.6	You're doing a little bartended for a while?
0:45.6	I was, yes, I did for probably more than a little while, you know,
0:49.3	that's how those things go.
0:50.5	Got out of college, wasn't sure what I wanted to do and started waiting tables in
0:55.8	Westchester County and that turned into bartending and did that on and off for probably 8 to 10
1:01.8	years, you know, different places.
1:04.0	And what era is that?
1:05.1	What years are we talking about?
1:07.2	We're talking, let's see, I graduated from college
1:11.0	in the late 80s, so that would be the early 90s into the late 90s I guess you know
1:16.6	what was the scene like back then like people were getting get Merleau
1:20.3	getting yeah Merleau was a big thing but everything by the class was Merleau again. Yeah Merleau was a big thing but everything by the class was
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