a pleasure to be here but you've been in belmont now about four years now i remember when you came before the board of selectmen so you're a liquor license right one of the you know the first one of the first you know that you know and there were some interesting things that you had to say about your business plan for the for the for the wine store and and it's proven to to to be true if we had sent a camera crew down jeffery hansel and and hi there you are i'm carolyn kemp welcome to bitch is adventures in wine while my husband and i eric had we had met in california and that's actually where we started our exploration of wine and food and we joined both  we came to boston after our son was born to be with family and settled in belmont this is about eighteen years ago i ended up getting a job in boston my husband is a kind of a renaissance man he's a musician an artist he cooks he was a caterer did all kinds of things to kind of you know take care of our son working on making it all work for us at a certain point it was time for us both to make a change and we looked into a restaurant we were looking into wine and a wine shop in concord we found out they were looking to sell it and we thought wow you know maybe this is something we can try we could put the wine in the food together perhaps in some way so we took the plunge found out we absolutely loved it it was something that yet another talent that my husband has a upon many of his other talents and we just that was it was really the first start of the step of our journey and we're very pleased that you know three years ago we were able to achieve this part of our our dream which is really have a you know design a space that was focused on wind with the materials that were you know wood cork slate and just present these beautiful lines and share our enthusiasm and passion for what we feature wines from italy france and spain and the wines that excite us most have something in common which is most of them are for our small production wines from a family a states that  speak about the land and its traditions you're sure i'm happy to do that you can see that what i did mention that things that excite us about wine are a a sense of place where wise to speak about their origin so one side of the store is italy and we do have a focus on northern have probably the largest selection of those winds anywhere you go to the new york to find anything similar tuscany of course you know brunello many people visited tuscany and have tremendous memories of a visit to this beautiful region so we have the winds  first time they've been in the boston area in massachusetts very recently when we were able to you know help him find an importer and bring his beautiful wines are just exceptional so we of course and john we have tastings every friday here there's p which was a tremendous event so we do that's part of the experience we enjoy offering and people really enjoy meeting a wine maker you know be able to discuss with them tasting the wines from one place one produce we really can learn a lot  too and also some whites from spain here that are trafficked so these are the white wines from france germany austria etc so there's kind of the white sort of near each other so you california wine same with a tete a tete so we do in the sense it's based on sort of the grapes because those were those winds were inspired by their own valley and so they are sort of california interpretations of of these grapes so they're here in this champagnes other ones are long all just excellent examples of a little more distinct style of champagne quite beautiful and excellent value is also from italy and a few other places too and finally here at bordeaux which is really like a cabernet and we're alone grapes featured whether they're from california or from france bordeaux france  so again some we try to have different vintages all the different appellations different places in each region to get that character or of the great point it's grown in that particular place looking for an education and wine i should come here we yes i would say absolutely the most fun way to educate yourself of course is to taste taste wine drink wine you have to you know try new wines i would say one way that's tremendous education self education is to find a couple favorite lines favorite producers and just buy them every year we got lists of what was a good or bad thing to just follow them along and  let the maid look by six at least or maybe even a case open a couple right away maybe next year open a couple more five years over a couple more to see how the wind changes in develops over time it evolves and you can just do that for one or two producers  it's a really it's a wonderful it's a way to experience why you learn so much about wine and how can the age at our dinner recently we had a two thousand and four bottling in the two thousand and one two thousand and one was just tremendously different same exact wine just three years separated it from zero four and yet it was a completely different experience because it partly because of the age probably because the vintage and you know not enough people get to experience that you can start anywhere  and stay there or you can just kind of start walking along and take a little size steps here and there and and try and a little different you know expand in your information and your palate you will be surprised how maybe to learn more about it and pursue it please we invite you to come to our tasting so you can certainly learn a lot just by coming in those and just just coming in saying this is what i enjoy now what would you recommend and just start there just we'll start again in september and september so we you know we don't we publish through our e mail or through the website you can find out what we're doing sometimes it's a little impromptu and you know new arrivals come in we get very excited we have to open them right away we can't wait for other welcome to come and taste again it was just you know we had to do and some very nice falzon and just very different things sometimes it's all from the same producer sometimes it's the same region we take different approaches to pan what we want to present ted to buy six bottles of wine of sort of unique italian wine and i send them to villages and he came back absolutely raving about the selection you had that it was very very  just come in and just look around you know you know counter by saying i know it sounds a lot of people might be you know a little nervous they walk in they don't recognize anything it's not familiar but that's what we offer we offer the same thing that you can get many other places we do have one of the wines there all their own great so come in if you see a label grab it you know face to face to buy the pretty label because we've taken them all we only have you know really good quality any preconceived notion of what i'm looking for you've had some great recommendations i think that you guys do a phenomenal job in that regard so i invite all of our viewers to to want stop by minute just advantage and whine  located at the on line that street thirty two lead street in belmont stop and see carolyn whether it's for a very special dinner or an anniversary dinner or for whatever reason just for a great bottle of wine to sit down and relax with  you have it two great businesses from belmont center the vintages adventures in wine and craft beer both of them unique both of them just welcome businesses to belmont so thank you very much carolyn thank you girls for for your efforts at craft beer and until next time i'm angela forensically and we'll see you again on the next issue of the next version of the belmont business report thank you very much