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Yeah. Yeah, yeah. I met Rudy.

Tony!

-Tony, what's happening?

-What's up, Tony?

I met him at a tasting.

I was very, very impressed.

He identified almost all the wines blind.

He must have learned by drinking

an enormous amount of different wines.

That's the only way to learn.

You always wondered why and how.

That's why you know.

You know, 18 months and now I have, what,

pretty much like 3,000 bottles of wine,

you know.

We're going to make a booklet,

you know, yeah.

Rudy's Adventures.

I met Rudy first in 2004, I believe.

There was a luncheon

for one of the producers

and we quickly became friends.

He was very warm to everyone.

I really liked the guy.

It's fun because there's

a lot of wines today that I haven't tried.

We hung out a lot

and went to wine dinners.

-How you doing today?

-Good, man.

Tired, but good.

-Long trip?

-From 5:
00 a.m. in the morning.

Long trip.

Fourteen hours drive.

-Where'd you drive from?

-LA, man.

LA, man.

The people in this town,

excuse my language, are full of sh*t.

But not with Rudy.

Just wakes me up, you know.

Nothing he did was short of real class,

warmth and graciousness.

You like... You like everything so far?

For my birthday he gave me a bottle of,

I think a Pol Roger '49 champagne,

which is incredible.

-What do you have right now?

-Colgin, interesting.

-Yeah?

-Very different from the Herb lamb.

Yeah?

I don't know if it's 100%

Cab because... Like a Meritage.

He was just a lover of wine.

Is a lover of wine.

I keep talking in the past

because it's still very strange.

He never said something to me

that I could look at and find was untrue.

But he didn't ever say that much.

I was a reporter and I was curious

about the auction market,

and I sat there at the back of Christie's

and I noticed a very, very young man

spending a lot of money

surrounded by people that I knew

were movie producers,

clearly the focus of everyone's attention.

That's a story.

Who is this guy?

And why is he spending this kind of money?

And what does he want to do with his wine?

Today I can't, today's overbooked.

Tomorrow, call me. I might...

It took months to get him to sit down

and have a cup of coffee with me.

I've got to go in five minutes.

I have a big Burgundy tasting.

-Let me move around before...

-Go ahead! Go ahead! Go ahead!

I'll talk to you soon.

Let me have the honour to try my wine.

It was like another month or two

before I got him to sit down and actually

have an interview with me.

He proceeded to serve

some of his great wines.

Oh, my God, this is... It's corked.

No.

He lived with his mother in Arcadia

and the people around him would say

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