Recent content by Joe Dressner

Alberto Tedeschi from Emilia Romagna will be in New York City and Boston this week. Please come and meet him and taste his wines from the local, authentique Pignoletto grape. He will be showing the 2007 Spungola Bellaria still version, the 2008 Sur-Lie sparkling version, and the soon-to-arrive...

For me it was 1985 and 1986

I have been solicited by this Matt Aronowitz for years and have always dismissed his as a quack. I get dozens of solicitations like this a month and do not respond. I don't think these sort of guys are taken seriously by anyone in the trade. There is a problem that from the outside it is very...

Who are all these people? Why don't they get their own board? What a ridiculous tasting!

www.louisdressner.com Let me know what you all think about this.

The dots are tribute to Herb Caen.

No such luck.

Too depressing

We are redoing our web site and my blog will now be published at www.louisdressner.com This will be a collaborative effort including contributions from Jules Dressner.

Of course they apply. Not for every wine made in any given region. But a 2009 Patrimono from Antoine Arena is much different from his 2008, 2007 and 2006. That's a vintage generalization based on the concrete not the vague conjectured. Long live vintage generalization!

Too much analysis. Overnoy ouillé and vin jaune have more elegance and depth than any others I have enjoyed. It is a personal, tasting and gustatory judgement, not a quantitative one. Plus I eat the perfect comté when I drink it in France and often drink the wines in sight of the vineyards and...

Fredonia already has a good will wine ambassador in America.

I have been appointed the American good will ambassador for the The Wines Of Liechtenstein. While this is a promotional job, approved by the Liechtenstein authorities, I intent to remain independent in my judgements and writings about these wines. For the time being this is pro-bono work...

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Calm down! You are being silly.