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Welcome.
“Welcome to the best five minute wine podcast”
with Forrest Kelly.
Hello, and welcome to the Ian Kabul Quiz Show.
Produced and hosted by yours, Truly, Rusty Sellers. Today's questions comes straight from our conversation with one of only 274 master simileas on the planet, Ian Kabul. Now let's find out how closely you've been listening to rounds. Zero Mercy.
Let's play. [MUSIC PLAYING] Here we go. Round one, multiple choice. Four choices, one right answer.
Question one, Ian Kabul grew up in which Southern California City, a Malibu, B. Santa Barbara, C. Huntington Beach, or D. San Diego. Correct answer is Huntington Beach. Surfered kid, tennis player, future master similea,
not a bad origin story, moving on.
“Question two, Ian attended which university”
before launching his wine career? A, UC Davis. B, Sonoma State University. Checkmark C, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo. D. Napo Valley College.
[MUSIC PLAYING] Did you say Sonoma State? That's correct. Right in the heart of wine country, coincidence? Ian would say destiny.
Question three, before committing to wine, what career did Ian originally consider pursuing? A, surf instructor, he grew up in Huntington Beach, seemed like a safe bet. B, Portuguese ditched digger, technically what $2 an hour
gets you. C, reggae festival organizer, the man's been to a lot of reggae festivals. D, doctor. The doctor will see you now.
Correct answer, doctor. Ian Cobbl M. D. Can you imagine?
“Instead of take two aspirin and call me in the morning,”
it's take two glasses of burgundy and call me never
because I'm on a camel in Morocco. His doctor clients are now jealous of his job. I have no clients. Nobody is jealous of rusty sellers. Question four, Ian's first job abroad,
working for the oldest porthouse in Portugal, paid him roughly how much per hour. A, $10 an hour, B, $5 an hour, C, $2 an hour, D. He volunteered for free. C was the correct answer, $2 an hour.
Working 15 hour days up the duro river. His words, he would have done it for free. That's either passion or a bad negotiator. I'll let you decide. Question five, what specific wine
are paired with goat cheese, fresh balsal and a dark purple tomato, sparked Ian's love of wine at age 17, A, Russian river, Pinot noir, B, Sonoma, Chardonnay, C, Napa Cabernet Sauvignon, D frog's leap. Answer is frog's leap, Sauvignon Blanc,
Brotherford, Napa Valley. All right, round one is finished. Add up your score and hold tight. Round two is coming in hot. True or false.
No hiding behind multiple choice now. Round two, true or false. Question one, Ian rates himself a nine out of ten on the Stuffy Somalia scale. Correct responses, false.
He said three or four out of ten. The man will drink wine out of a dixie cup and a motel six off the side of the five freeway of the situation calls for it. Stuffy, not even close.
Question two, the master Somalia exam has approximately a 3% pass rate. True. And it gets worse only three to seven people in the entire world pass it in any given year.
Three parts, knowledge, blind tasting, and service. All of it graded by other master Somalia's who are actively trying to trip you up. Question three, Ian says most of the great wines he sells through thecoveless.com,
come from American producers. False. He said the majority come from Europe. Spain, France, Italy, Greece, Germany. He loves the classics, Oregon and the California coast
get honorable mentions, but Europe runs his cellar.
Question four, Ian has out of pure habit,
accidentally started swirling a glass of water.
True.
“His exact words, I start swirling and I'm like,”
what am I doing with my life? 25 years of muscle memory will do that to a person.
Question five, Ian is a big fan of Peyton at wine.
False, Petty, y'all, natural. Same fermentation all the way through the bottle. Is not really his thing.
“He was polite about it, but the answer is no.”
All right, pencils down. Here's how you stack up. 10 to 12 correct.
You might be ready for the master Somalia exam,
or at least the trivia round at your local wine bar. Seven to nine correct. Solid, you were paying attention. Four to six correct.
“You listened, but perhaps with wine in hand.”
Zero to three correct. That's okay, that's why we're here. If this episode inspired you, go find Ian Coval at thecovalist.com and follow the show at the best wine pod.
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