Levi Dalton Sits Down with Daniel Johnnes

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Levi Dalton Sits Down with Daniel Johnnes New York City is a particularly sommelier-rich city, and if you were to trace the lineage of the modern sommelier, you would find one common ancestor: Daniel Johnnes. While still a young man with some two decades and change in the business, Daniel has had a profound impact on what we drink, how we drink it and who we take advice from. He is quite simply the proto-modern sommelier, and Levi Dalton recently caught up with him in a fast-paced and enlightening interview!

Since 2005, Daniel Johnnes has been the wine director for Daniel Boulud’s WINEX group. With a full range of restaurants under his watchful eye, Johnnes is in the enviable position of buying wine for all restaurant comers, from those who want something to pair with a DBGB Burger at the bar to those seeking the ultimate in wine pairing and refinement.