Tracy Smith
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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He was bottling no-name wine, making what they call shiners.
So the wine didn't even have to really be that good.
And you knew enough to know that he didn't know a lot.
Dahl had moved to wine country with his wife and three children.
Within a couple of years, his bottling business was a big success, and Dahl liked to show it.
So it was in 2011 that Robert Dahl took his next big step toward his dream of making it big in the wine business.
He linked up with that prince of the wine country, Dominic Fopoli.
He didn't have his own personal vineyard yet, and he needed more product.
Over the next year, Fipoli and Dahl became close.
Fipoli staked everything he had on this partnership, even his house.
Fipoli didn't think it would be a stretch for Robert Dahl.