A Great Tasting! We rarely do events, but it went great the other day. Everyone at Louis/Dressner worked like lunatics, the tasting was a great success. The wines tasted great, there was good food, lots of people came, they lingered and there was no Marquis Phillips Shiraz 2002. What more could a wine geek ask? I would also like to thank Mike Wheeler, wine distributor icon extraordinaire, for convincing us to do the tasting. We'd also like to thank everyone at Polaner Selections for promoting the event, even though we were showing much paraphenalia that we don't have listed with them. Yes, we're all schnooks in the wine trade. But occassionally, we transcend our miserable schnookdom. I'd also like to thank the people who came from out-of-town. The two Ricks from Connecticut, Boston Wine Impressario Steve Mosher, Melanie Mann of Whole Foods Seattle who is planning to take over the New York market, and Brooklyn Restaurant Impressario Arnaud Erhard from Red Hook. Part-time Louis/Dressner employee Mona Moore also played an exemplary role. Again, thanks to all. I'm off to Chicago this week to suck up to Sams. They're opening a mega store in New York, and we desperately need their business.
Hey, I missed it!
bravo to Melanie! all of your hardwork has paid off at last. kudos!
I want to thank the customers and thier customers, for without them we would never be in the SHOF(S).....
and it was irrefutably established that string ties are de riguer neckwear for wine tastings as they do not droop into the spit bucket!
I hope one of the Ricks was from Madison. He pushes your wares and is a real hoot.
the other rick is far more cool. oops! sorry mr. dresser. i forgot it was a banned word!
It was a monumental tasting. What a great room! Next time i'm in New York i'm going to buy Joe a Lincoln Continental.
i'm going to buy him a continental breakfast!
I'm going to buy him a heart monitor.
i'm going to buy him 12 pipers piping!
It's a crazy market that buys gifts for the Importer, but that's what I love about it. And, Joe, btw, I got a bagel at H&H, and twas great.
mr. dresser is not exactly your garden variety importer!
but mr. dresser has a variety of gardens
hey mr. dresser! how does your garden grow?
A tasting like that makes me feel mega-validated.
dude, get off the tasting, it was a week ago. let's talk baseball.
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