“If it’s beatboxing that’s going to make the guests happy, I’m going to beat box to make the guest happy.”

Aaron is the Wine Director at the renowned Metropolitan Grill in Seattle, which won the prestigious Grand Award from the Wine Spectator in 2018. He oversees five temperature-controlled cellars containing 17,000+ bottles of wine. In this episode, we talk bagel science, bartending at Red Robin, and what it’s like to have walked the famed floorboards of the Met Grill for almost 10 years now.


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