Congratulations to Shawn Mead!
Shawn Mead, the former sommellier at Campagne Restaurant in Seattle, has joined Louis/Dressner Selections!
Shawn has a long history in the wine trade and is one of the West Coast's most respected wine authorities, educators and wine activists. She has been a strong supporter of our wines and has twice travelled to France with our company. Shawn has great conviction, wine knowledge, charisma, intelligence and a strong appreciation and respect for the vineyard and cellar work of the vignerons making real wine. She is also sufficiently crazy to work with us. We are delighted to have her joining us at Louis/Dressner.
Pictured above is Shawn Mead, the manager of the Najjar Car Care Garage of South City in Missouri (somewhere near St. Louis). Garage services include all basic maintenance needs-- from oil changes, to manufacturer's recommended mileage services, to even state inspections!
Mr. Mead has earned the respect of his clients, even though he has never been in the wine trade. Don Siener of St. Louis reports:
"I'm 63 years old. This is the first time I've ever been to a car repair shop where I could've been charged a lot more, but he [Shawn] didn't. All the people treated me well. The whole crew was very nice."
Shawn Mead the garagiste has no relationship to Shawn Mead who has just joined Louis/Dressner Selections. The Louis/Dressner Shawn Mead is a woman and easily distinguished from Shawn Mead the Garagiste.
Pictured above is yet another Shawn Mead who is not working at Louis/Dressner Selections and who also has no relationship to the Shawn Mead at Najjar Car Care Garage in Missouri.
This Shawn Mead is the faculty advisor of the Phi Beta Lamda Chapter at Labette Community College in Parsons, Kansas. Phi Beta Lamda is very active in community service and Mr. Mead is shown preparing meals for senior citizens at the Faith Methodist Church. According to the sorority: "citizens benefit both from the delicious food and the great fellowship."
It is unclear if they drink wine at the Faith Methodist Church. Currently, Louis/Dressner Selections does not have distribution in Parsons, Kansas.
Joe, Shawn Mead, the excellent former sommellier, did a fantastic job today at Triage Seattle's tasting. Great work on the new hire! I'm incredibly excited for her new future!
Rumour has it that she sold large quantities of Blaterle!
My mother works at Labette Community College in Parsons, KS, and last December I brought her a bottle of La Jalousie from Domaine du Closel that she liked very much.
I could maybe hook you up with this Shawn Mead character. He looks like he might be a real asset to the firm.
It is unclear to me, as well, whether or not they drink wine at Faith Methodist, however:
The United Methodist Book of Worship says, "Although the historic and ecumenical Christian practice has been to use wine, the use of unfermented grape juice by The United Methodist Church and its predecessors since the late nineteenth century expresses pastoral concern for recovering alcoholics, enables the participation of children and youth, and supports the church's witness of abstinence."
In other news, a google search of "methodist" and "wine" will indeed bring up the Wine Importer as the seventh listing from the top.
Thank you for the note Vagueperson.
Yes, I am considering a conversion to Methodism. Already, my good friend the Sheriff has jointed the Methodist ranks.
Joe,
The Najjar Car Care where Mr. Mead works is in the City of St. Louis proper. South (pronounced "Sowt" by the locals) City is merely a reference to the southern portion of the City (generally anything south of Interstate 44 (pronounced "Farty-Far" by the locals).
While I am not native to St. Louis, my secretary grew up not far from the Najjar at issue and has confirmed the geography and the pronunciations. In addition, I have driven by this particular Najjar location on several occasions, as one of my best friends lives a bit further south on Hampton.
BTW, my father in-law (a big fan of Louis/Dressner wines, at least when I'm buying . . .) is a Methodist minister in Chicago. He'd be happy to answer any questions you may have.
Cheers,
Dave
Dear Dave:
Let me personally assure you that this is an ecunemical site.
In a recent survey of our readership, 14% were Methodists.
We welcome Methodist participation here and have always been proud of the Methodist prescence in our comments section.
Personally, I'm not a Methodist.
google + wine + methodist = Joe Dressner
I'm not a Methodist either. Though I expect I am now linked with this faction forever by Google as a result of posting here. I may have to look into conversion now.
Cheers,
Dave
I converted yesterday. You won't regret it. It's a great religon!
Hi Joe,
This is Shawn Mead the one from Najjar car care in St.Louis,we are in a part of St.Louis,called St.Louis Hills 63109 Zip Code.
There is a new picture of me on our website,one of my other employees came accros your sight and sent it to me,I am also a graduate of R,L,Oconnor in Seattle Washington.
Just thought I would tell you nice job on website.
Hey Joe,
I am also a great wine taster and a great drinker,I can
drink more than anyone.Includes Shawn from St.Louis.
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