I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Liz Willette is on the show today. She's got a long career in the vineyards of France, Italy, and as an importer in New York.

So, you know, one of the things that's so interesting about you is you've had just so many amazing experiences in the wine world.

How did it start out? You were in Italy?

Well, the sort of the the real origin of the the beginning

beginning I would say would be that I always worked in the restaurant

business sort of growing up in high school and stuff waitressing I was in the kitchen a little bit

then I realized that the money's in the front of the house and true that you know and

there's no there at the time there was no glory in the back of the house either. I mean chefs were like

criminals. If you couldn't get a job you went to a kitchen. So that was sort of my background just sort of always wanting to have that experience

because it's so translatable no matter where you go you can always fall back on that kind of thing.

And then I spent a year in Italy studying, I studied art history, which doesn't prepare you for anything,

except talking about wine actually in fact.

It's good if you end up in a museum, but otherwise.

Right, exactly.

So, spent a year in Italy, after I graduated from college,

I went to work at the Guggenheim in Venice

as an intern and moved out west to ski for a few years came then went back to the

Guggenheim to do the Bienale because the Guggenheim in Venice owns the American Pavilion.

Oh, I didn't know that.

Which is the big art show.

Exactly.

Every other year, international art show where every country chooses an artist to highlight. So that was an amazing experience.

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