A Supplier's Manifesto

I will no longer attend meetings where someone calls me a "supplier."

I won't attend meetings where people don't call me a "supplier" but think I am their "supplier."

Our vignerons don't make supplies.

They make wine.

We sell wine.

Not supplies.

Let's put the wine back into The Wine Trade.

- Joe Dressner 6-3-2009 11:02am

wine flu

posted by real wino 6-3-2009 11:07am

Are the words "importer" and "producer" okay?

-Eden (some of the distributors of my acquaintance may find "vigneron" too difficult to pronounce)

posted by -Eden 6-3-2009 1:09pm

Importer is ok

The problem is that English does not have an equivalent word for vigneron.

You call someone from France a winemaker and it is practically an insult. Call them a farmer and they don't know what you're talking about.

Because in the New World, a farmer is some guy with 400 acres somewhere and a winemaker is a technician. The European notion of someone who works their land and makes their wine is not known here. We're organized on a different scale.

posted by Joe Dressner 6-3-2009 1:38pm

We're organized?

holy shit! who knew?

posted by Steve Edmunds 6-3-2009 2:01pm

Something . . .

I've always thought and never said. Thanks Joe!

When I wandered into my first Touton meeting back in 2001 they were throwing around the world "supplier" almost as much as horrible pay d'Oc Merlot!

posted by lwfass 6-4-2009 4:04pm

Rule #1

Don't get high off your own supply.

I know for a fact that you've watched the Wire. You should know this. God!! New Yorkers are pussies.

posted by the vlm 6-4-2009 4:31pm

how about dealer?

posted by scottreiner 6-8-2009 10:06am

I thought you moved brands, no?

SFJ

posted by SFJoe 6-9-2009 1:37pm

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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!

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