IDTT Wine 471: Jeff Kellogg Enters the Other Side of the Wine Business

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🗓️ 6 August 2019

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

Jeff Kellogg is the co-founder of Kellogg Selections, a wine distributor in North Carolina. Jeff is a former sommelier, who previously appeared in I'll Drink to That! episode 230.

Jeff discusses his decision to start a wine distribution business, and the financial and personal realities around launching such a business. He also describes a changing demographic in North Carolina, and what that means for the wine market of that state. Jeff weaves in several personal and professional insights from his earlier jobs in explaining what he is up to today, discussing the appeal of working in distribution for a former sommelier. Those who have never worked in wine distribution will likely learn a lot from what Jeff has to say, whether they work in wine professionally or not.

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0:00.0	And the This episode is dedicated to the memory of Ned Benedict, who recently passed away.
0:21.0	Ned was interviewed in episode 21 of this program and he was a friend to many in the
0:26.4	wine business.
0:28.7	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:32.2	I'm Levy Dalton. I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Jeff Kellogg returns to the show. He is now a distributor at Kellogg
0:55.2	selections in North Carolina. Hello sir, how are you? I'm doing great. Thank you for
0:58.7	having me. Love it. Great to be back and also you probably don't hear this
1:02.1	enough. I want to compliment you on what you do for this podcast because honestly as somebody who loves wine and wants to learn more about producers and regents, just the people you have on and getting a collection of their stories and their family history is amazing and
1:14.9	will be for a long time.
1:15.9	That's interesting because you used to be super sarcastic but now you're kind of a kiss up.
1:19.2	Is that the transformation that I've seen?
1:21.2	It's still very sarcastic, so it's a great combination of both.
1:24.4	Kind of optimistic and nice with a sarcastic edge, which goes over extremely well in North
1:29.0	Carolina.
1:30.0	I remember that you worked in North Carolina before.
1:32.4	You opened a few restaurants there, right?
1:34.1	I did I worked for a restaurant group I was in North Carolina for about seven years
1:37.8	opened five concepts for a restaurant group where I was there before I went to the Green Bar
1:41.5	and Russ Virginia and then spent time in California and of course New York as well.
1:45.0	So, I mean for me honestly it was kind of like going home even though I grew up in Ohio it very much felt like going back home and that was part of the attraction to go there.
1:53.2	And that's where you met your wife too, North Carolina, right?
1:55.2	Exactly right.
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