joe dressner

My name is Joe Dressner and I'm The Wine Importer of many French, an increasing number of Italian wines and a Port. I am part of a company, Louis/Dressner Selections, which tries to find interesting and often unusual wines that express the terroir the wines come from and the talent and hard work of the winemakers. This site is my personal spot and has no relation to the company I work for.

The point of this site is unabashed self-promotion, which I have learned is the key to success in the business world. Long and hard experience has taught me that the quality of our wines is unimportant -- it is my ability to network and promote myself that matters most in the business world. Image and illusion are all that matters and our customers feel reassured to know they are buying wine from an important personality who has his own web site.

Most of this site is true, but some of it is fictional. I often forget which part is which. Everyone in the wine trade takes themselves so seriously that I am trying to bring a little perspective and humor into what should be a joyous trade. By the way, my lawyer suggested I include this paragraph.

The site is organized by chronological posts in descending order. There are several posts on each page and you can go to earlier posts by scrolling to the bottom of the page and clicking on older posts. This is a very user-friendly feature.




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Sourcing Wines
People often ask us how we find the great wines we will be showning at the fabulous Louis/Dressner Portfolio Tasting on October 19th in New York City.

Years ago, we would go to France, Italy and Portugal. These days we get e-mail.

Like Brits buying vineyards in the Minervois now that Ryanair flies to Carcassone, like academics who have done doctorates on the characteristics of the Muscat grape who have a friend somewhere who is a broker for someone's vineyard elsewhere, like retired Canadian professors buying in the worst spots of the Cru Beaujolais, like Argentinians sitting on the next best thing at well under a dollar a bottle....anyone with a vineyard and a web browser is sending me e-mail.

Just tonight I received the following promising solicitation:

Dear Mr. Dressner,

We learned from internet that you are one of the main importers and wholesalers of
bearings,and would like to take this opportunity to introduce us as one of the
biggest bearing company in China ,located in the biggest bearing base-Linqing City.

The main products we are producing are:

Spherical roller bearings,
Tapered roller bearings,
Low-noise deep groove ball bearings,
Pillow block bearings,
Thrust ball bearing,
Adapter sleeves.

You can visit our website www.hengrunbearing.com to know more information of our
company and products.If you have any question,please no hesitate to contact
us.We will attend your enquiry without any delay.

We hope to develop long-term business and cooperation with your company.

Best Regards,
Winnie




- Joe Dressner 9-23-2005 2:56 am [link] [2 refs] [6 comments]

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