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72-349 Ka`upulehu Drive, Building D, Kailua-Kona, Hawaii, <br />TMK: 7-2-025:013. <br />Leon Dreimann, Managing Partner, and Jason Ray, Director of Food <br />and Beverage at the Four Seasons Resort Hualalai, both were <br />present. <br />Dreimann: Morning. <br />Takaba: Good morning. Can you identify yourself and your relation to the business? <br />Dreimann: I'm Leon Dreimann and I'm the Managing Partner for the Elevation Wine <br />Fund. <br />Ray: Good morning, I'm the Assistant Director of Food and Beverage at the Four <br />Seasons Resort Hualalai, Jason Ray. <br />Takaba: Have you read the application report? <br />Dreimann: Yes. <br />Takaba: Do you have any changes you'd like to make? <br />Dreimann: No. <br />Takaba: Can you describe your business? <br />Dreimann: The original business was formed in the State of California as an <br />investment fund as a wholesaler for premium wines. For the State of Hawaii, the <br />intention is to have a wholesale license for the restaurants that cater to the members of <br />Hualalai, run by the Four Seasons Resort. Currently, the members of the resort attain <br />the beer of the restaurants of the resort. They pay an annual membership fee to which <br />they're allowed to bring their own wines as part of their meals. The Four Seasons is <br />willing to change their mark ups to allow members to acquire wines though the <br />wholesale Elevation Wine Fund, which would be set up on the provided premises under <br />a lease. There would be a service and benefit to the members. Since I'm at the resort <br />and known as somewhat of an expert on wines, I was approached to see how this could <br />be done. That is one purpose. The second purpose, a number of the members are in <br />fact owners of wineries in Australia, Europe and Napa Valley. They too would like to be <br />able to provide access to their members to show off the wines they make because <br />they're neighbors and friends. This gives them the possibility to import their wines <br />through this wholesaler and put it on the wine list of the restaurants catering to their <br />members of the Four Seasons. <br />Takaba: Thank you. Do we have any public testimony? <br />JUNE 1, 2017 - LIQUOR COMMISSION MINUTES <br />13 <br />