Back in the mid 90s my wife and I became interested, ok- obsessed with Loire wines, which led to two visits to the region, in 97 and 98.
A youthful, good-looking, pre-bypass Dressner helped us set up many of these visits, and in doing so in his gruff/kind way, transformed our lives. I posted text in 97 to Compuserve and then completed (in the days of dialup) an html version after the second trip.
Well Brad has been gently, persistently hounding me these past few years at with "Why did you take your Loire site down? You should put it back up. There's good information there."
I just thought it had become obsolete and had to go. Plus, I had a tasting-note writing crisis of confidence. And yet it was through posting these pages that I got to know many of you here, some of my best wine friends.
I thought I had permanently lost the files, but just last week they resurfaced. They found me. Message received.
So, here is a look at the Loire in the 1990s. Plenty of familiar characters, at least one of whom has passed away.
You'll find barrel tasting the Freres Foucault 96 and 97s, the Foreau 97s, a discourse by Robert Denis, post-apocalyptic visits to Olga Raffault and Pierre Bise. An early Pinon sighting. Jasnieres before it was hip.
I've removed many youthful exclamation points in the text. Otherwise the html has a nice, dated 90s sort of simplicity. Hopefully this peek into the not-so-distant past will be of interest to a few of you here.
http://web.mac.com/donrice1/iWeb/loire90svin/pageone.html
A youthful, good-looking, pre-bypass Dressner helped us set up many of these visits, and in doing so in his gruff/kind way, transformed our lives. I posted text in 97 to Compuserve and then completed (in the days of dialup) an html version after the second trip.
Well Brad has been gently, persistently hounding me these past few years at with "Why did you take your Loire site down? You should put it back up. There's good information there."
I just thought it had become obsolete and had to go. Plus, I had a tasting-note writing crisis of confidence. And yet it was through posting these pages that I got to know many of you here, some of my best wine friends.
I thought I had permanently lost the files, but just last week they resurfaced. They found me. Message received.
So, here is a look at the Loire in the 1990s. Plenty of familiar characters, at least one of whom has passed away.
You'll find barrel tasting the Freres Foucault 96 and 97s, the Foreau 97s, a discourse by Robert Denis, post-apocalyptic visits to Olga Raffault and Pierre Bise. An early Pinon sighting. Jasnieres before it was hip.
I've removed many youthful exclamation points in the text. Otherwise the html has a nice, dated 90s sort of simplicity. Hopefully this peek into the not-so-distant past will be of interest to a few of you here.
http://web.mac.com/donrice1/iWeb/loire90svin/pageone.html
