Ric Forman

I'll Drink to That! Wine Talk

Levi Dalton

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4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 June 2014

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Ric Forman is the proprietor of the Forman Vineyard winery in California's Napa Valley. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0	I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.
0:05.1	I'm Levy Dalton.
0:06.1	I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, Rick Foreman on the show today.
0:25.0	Hello, sir, how are you?
0:27.0	I'm very well.
0:28.0	Thanks very much. Nice to have you here.
0:29.0	Yeah, it's nice to be here.
0:30.0	This should be fun.
0:31.0	So you do the Foreman Vineyards now for a long time? Oh my gosh I've been in the business of making wine for 46 years, 30 I guess at Foreman. I started Foreman vineyards in 19, well I bought the property in 1978
0:46.9	Started developing it then but didn't actually start the brand until 1983.
0:53.6	Originally you had works while you were a student at Stony Hill.
0:57.4	I did.
0:58.4	I went to UC Davis undergraduate and graduate school in food science and you know gee while I was in graduate school the last couple of years of college I
1:08.4	worked for the harvest at Stony Hill,
1:11.1	1967 and then the harvest of Robert Mondavi in 1968.
1:15.8	What were those two experiences like?
1:17.8	Oh, they were fantastic.
1:19.1	You can imagine.
1:20.1	Here I am a student thinking that I wanted to make wine.
1:24.0	Pretty darn sure I did. Very excited about it.
1:27.0	The wine industry was just beginning to open up.
1:30.0	You know, Robert Mondavi kind of turned the new page for the whole industry and in 66, up to that point, there had been almost no development since practically prohibition.
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