I'm Levy Dalton and this is all drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the wine business. Oh, Free Form,

with Michael Foyerstein of Paul Mall.

Hello, sir, how are you?

I'm good, how you?

Nice to see you.

Pledger's mine.

So you're in the wine business now, but it wasn't always so?

No, actually I wasted a good deal of my life in the textile business.

What was that like?

It was a pretty rough business. I was in it about 35 years and there were probably

10-15 good ones. It kind of got to the point where if you can think about it the famous duck press at

Tordogont. Yeah I've heard of that. We became the duck. I'm sorry to hear that.

Yeah, it was a little, it was rough. How many threat count? Lots. Lots of threats. But I mean, seriously, this is a serious question. I go shopping for sheets. What does it mean when it says?

The more threads per inch, the finer the yarn, the silkier the sheet.

You're always a pretty finely dressed man, is that something that's carried over from your days

uh what did you do men's clothes back then?

No actually I designed fabric for women women's wear. Oh okay so you're

around you were in women's pants as much as possible. But after you got out of that business, which sounds like it had the ups and downs.

It was it was a became at the very tough place to live

The wine business was actually sort of an accident

A friend of mine Becky Wasserman refers to me as the accidental wine merchant

You were friends before you started business?

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