"Wine is about going somewhere," says Dan Philips, wine expert and founder of the Grateful Palate, when describing the inspiration for his new Shiraz, Boarding Pass at the 2007 Food & Wine Classic in Aspen."Wine is about going somewhere," says Dan Philips, wine expert and founder of the Grateful Palate, when describing the inspiration for his new Shiraz, Boarding Pass.
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[MUSIC] This was written up in Food and Wine Magazine
and it's a new wine that took me 10 years
And about two million miles of flying to come up
with the idea of a wine [UNKNOWN] boarding pass. But
it was in Food and Wine magazine last month and
it's a [UNKNOWN] and it took me also about eight
submissions from the U.S. government to get that back label
approved. But it's 100% [UNKNOWN] and the reserve wine of
course, does anyone want to guess what it's called? Exactly
first class. Once you fly first class you never go
back. This is also a reserve level Shiraz and it's
actually a wine that I literally came up with, because
of all my experience and travel. But it taught me
something about wine. Wine's about going somewhere. When you open
a Tuscan wine you go to Tuscany. When you open
up a wine from Napa, you have a little bit
of Napa in your life. And so this wine sort
of [UNKNOWN] speaks to the idea of going to a
destination of wines. [MUSIC]