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The New York Wine Market is Crazy These Days!

A distributor called me today and offered to take all our wines. After 15 minutes on the phone, he realized that I wasn't Charlie Woods and abruptly hung up the phone on me.

Some guy named Ab Simon called and made a big offer to buy our company. After 15 minutes I realized Ab Simon is now dead.

I had a wild dream about Victor Schwartz's Parisian brother selling me to VOS Selections at a 11% Commission that Denyse would have to pay, rather than Victor.

I discovered my middle name is Merinoff. Joseph Merinoff Dressner. Someone from The Empire called, whoever they are.

I was kidnapped by a gang of Lubavitch in a Mitzvah-Mobile going up Lafayette Street serving Kosher St-Pourcain to certified Jews. They wanted to form a joint distributorship.

I realized that two major Spanish Wine Importers are in North Carolina! How do you explain that!

There's a lot of activity these days and it is making it dizzy. Frankly, its very silly.

We're very happy with things as they are now!


- Joe Dressner 12-16-2009 6:00pm
Sounds more like nightmares, you're sure the first two incidents weren't also dreamt? Hey maybe selling you off is worth an 11% commission to your wife.

Happy Chanukah and better dreams.
posted by TWG 12-16-2009 10:05pm
The New York Wine Market (NYWM) has become a nightmare. You don't know who to trust or believe anymore.
posted by Joe Dressner 12-17-2009 12:18am

somehow, somewhere...

there has to be one man in new york who can give us the truth!
posted by the sheriff 12-17-2009 9:27am

its only up from here

posted by real wino 12-17-2009 3:02pm

St. Pourcain?

Is that like a California Rhone?
posted by Steve Edmunds 12-17-2009 7:10pm

Distributor?

Did you happen to catch this guys name, Joe?
posted by Charlie Woods 2-8-2010 12:49pm
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Joe Dressner - Captain Tumor Man!


Hi, I'm Joe Dressner the famous wine importer and I have brain cancer!

I already have a wine blog and frankly wine is such a luxury business that I hate to mix my cancer problems with my wine observations. I think it would be a general downer for the lifestyle crowd out there.

Furthermore, we in the wine trade always claim there are tremendous health benefits to drinking wine. I've already had cardiovascular bypass surgery over eight years ago and now I got a tumor aggressively rattling in my brain. My colleagues in the glamorous wine industry want me to keep it quiet.

So, I've started this wonderful new blog to discuss wine, brain tumors, my life and to give you hot tips on handling the cancer stricken around you. There will also be practical wine/radiation pairings when I start radiation therapy and chemotherapy next week.

Having brain cancer means I might both physically and intellectually decline. So, I will be using this blog as a venue to pursue petty vendettas against relatives, acquaintances and people in the wine trade.

I might also lose touch with reality and say things that are not true or are only half true. The important thing is to have fun and enjoy this rare and precious time in my life.

One of my pet vendettas is my cousin Dr. Barbara Hirsch. Dr. Barbara Hirsch is a very important Great Neck Endocrinologist, who was raised and nurtured by my parents. Dr. Hirsch waited until my father was near death and my mother was suffering from a rare neuromuscular disorder, to write them a seven page letter denouncing them for being horrible to her for the entirety of her life! Despite my concerns, Dr. Hirsch still refuses to apologize.

Last night, I drank a beautiful bottle of Bourgueil Clos Sénéchal 2005 from Pierre Breton. It was sublime and reminded me that I used to be healthy. Not only that, the vineyard used to be there before I existed. It exists independently of my having cancer and will continue to exist. You ought to buy some.

August 2009 Postscript: Not only does it exist independently of my cancer, it also exists independently of Louis/Dressner Selections. After 18 years, they have dumped us for Kermit Lynch. Oh well. At least I'm alive!