Don't Miss Chambers Street Beaujolais Tasting on June 7th! Taste the Banned Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais!
I just read on the Chambers Street web site:
GREAT WINEMAKERS OF THE BEAUJOLAIS FROM LOUIS-DRESSNER SELECTIONS AND OTHER GROWERS THEY HAPPEN TO LIKE - 4pm TO 7pm
Cru Beaujolais from the best natural producers are some of the world's most delicious and food-friendly wines. To prove it, Joe Dressner will lead us on a tasting of artisanal Beaujolais from producers he represents - Alain Coudert, Michel Tete, Louis-Claude Desvignes, Jean-Paul Brun and Georges Descombes - and producers he doesn't represent, like Marcel Lapierre, Pierre-Marie Chermette and Jean Foillard. This will be a fabulous tasting so plan to stay in town, and why not have dinner at Cerle Rouge afterward?
Along with our growers, we will be tasting Marcel Lapierre, Jean Foillard and Jean-Marie Chermette. These are growers we do not import (Lapierre & Foillard are imported by Kermit Lynch, Chermette by Peter Weygandt), but whose wines we love. You can buy our wines or those wines -- either way you will be very happy.
This is a free event and your other option is to buy no wines at all.
Kermit Lynch, Fresno State University
Peter Weygandt JD in 1975, Washington University in St. Louis
Joe Dressner MA in Journalism 1984, New York University
This is your opportunity to taste the 2007 Jean-Paul Brun Beaujolais that will not be able to continue to be called 2007 Beaujolais because of the recent INAO ruling.
The tasting starts at 4 pm and I promise to insult at least three consumers attending the event. The lucky consumers will be picked at random and will never buy a single bottle of wine at Chambers Street Wines for the rest of their lives.
Salespeople from competing wholesalers will be brutally expelled from the store.
Ownership or usage of an I-Phone is strictly banned.
"Salespeople from competing wholesalers will be brutally expelled from the store."
Perhaps they should return the favor sometime....
Love K
They should, particularly if I show up! I've been out of control too long.
I often get on my bike and go for long rides to get rid of all my energy and anger. All that horrible industrial wine out there gets me too angry. I'm fuming 24 hours a day! I'm a natural wine guided missile! But even long bike rides don't always work!
I once assaulted Monsieur Touton at a store for supporting the War Against Iraq. He had offered one dollar on every case of wine his company sold to benefit our boys in Iraq. I couldn't stop myself.
Well, I might not regret that one, but I often forget that salespeople just have a job. Even if I disagree with the ownership of the companies they work for, we can't possible employ every salesperson out there. Otherwise, I'd be raiding the crack sales staff over at Southern Wine & Spirits.
Most New York stores have banned me. Several in California won't let me in. The entire State of Colorado has banned my presence. I once threatened to punch out a major wine writer at a major wine publication, a guy who gives us favorable reviews. Just last week, I insulted the owner/publisher/editor of a magazine who adores our wines. Salespeople at Polaner Selections refuse to work with me, even though our wines sell well, because I invariably insult their clients. I'm banned from seven internet wine boards. My blog is loathsome and I suffer from profound personal morbidity.
My apologies to K. for any misunderstandings.
I saw my internist this week and am starting medication. Let's hope it works!
Best,
Joe
Yeah, yeah, yeah. So you have your enemies in the wine world, so what? The real question is, has anyone blocked you on Twitter?
So far, I'm good on Twitter. By the way, I had a delicious breakfast today of wheat toast and cottage cheese.
Twitter sucks my big fat hairy ass. Man up for your tasting at CSW Joe D.
Lyle
Lyle:
Really? How does it do that?
It's complicated but it does. I truly believe Twitter is useless and will be terminating my account soon. I find it unbelievably useless.
In Twitter you have to use the "track" function. I have been tracking Jean Paul Brun and you can't believe the furor in geekdom as a result of this injustice with the INAO. They're really going INAO to INAO out there.
Is Jean-Paul on Twitter? I had no idea!