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I Ran Into This Same Woman Twice Yesterday in San Francisco

Once in the Tenderloin Section of town, the other time on the border stradding the Western Addition and Nobalito. I had already seen her two days ago on Jones and Eddy Street.



Am I being stalked?

We had a great Drinking last night at Terroir. I'm no longer doing consumer tastings but have switched over to consumer drinking. The consumers seem much happier drinking than spitting. Does every wine event have to be pretentious and a copy of the 1976 Paris Tasting? C'mon guys, let's loosen up a little....life is too short.

We then went to Bar Tartine where there was an amazing Rabbit Dinner organized by a bunch of folks from Chez Panise (American's great restaurant) and the fabulous Andrew Tarlow. Andrew Tarlow is the co-owner of too many great Brooklyn Restaurants (Marlow and Sons, Diner, Romans) and is single-handedly trying to wrestle the New York dining experience out of the hands of the Dry Cleaned, James Beard Awarded crowd.

Tarlow is one of the great heroes of the American food and wine scene, joining Alice Waters and other luminaries.


- Joe Dressner 2-23-2010 12:35pm

she is not a stalker

she is a hooker....
posted by the sheriff 2-23-2010 2:28pm
i saw this person today, turning onto McGee St. in Berkeley, swerving to avoid me, as I was driving home from the Monterey Market. She was unmistakable! I'm not so sure the sheriff knows whereof she speaks!
posted by Steve Edmunds 3-5-2010 1:14am
I saw her the other day, driving up Rose St., in Berkeley! She gets around, I guess...
posted by Steve Edmunds 3-6-2010 1:19pm
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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!