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Exciting Events in San Francisco on April 20th

The Real Attack is nearly on!

There is the hyper-secretive trade tasting. You have to ask your Farm Wine Rep for an invite. You can meet K. Mckenna, D. Louis and J. Dressner at this once in a lifetime event.

But that night there will be a bunch of special events:


Terroir, 6-9pm,
no rsvp required, wines by the glass or bottle. The growers will mill about and tell entertaining stories.

Francesca Padovani
Silvio Messana
Luca Roagna
François Pinon
Thierry Puzelat
Pierrot Bonhomme
Franck Peillot
Eric Texier


Barbacco, 6-9pm
Half of the restaurant is held for walk-ins. Each grower will have one wine by the taste, glass, quartino or bottle, with other wines available by the bottle. Have dinner, a small plate, or just a glass of wine. This will be informal, with ample opportunity to talk to the growers and hear their entertaining stories.

Arianna Occhipinti
Alessandra Bera
Francesco Maule
Mauro Vergano
Sasha Radikon


Chez Panisse
Will serve a Muscadet and Beaujolais menu downstairs, with these growers' wines by the glass or bottle. The growers have a table at 6:00 but they won't circulate like at Terroir and Barbacco so there will be less opportunity to chat. This event is more the wine and food than meeting the growers. You'll only get snippets of entertaining stories here.

Marc Ollivier
Jean-Paul Brun
Damien Coquelet
Georges Descombes


- Joe Dressner 4-15-2010 11:05pm
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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!