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.

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Puzelat

I've mentioned several times that vintage 2000 is the year of Pineau d'Aunis.

50 cases of Thierry Puzelat's La Tesnière Pineau d'Aunis 2000 just popped
into our New Jersey warehouse. We are not sure how they got there but someone will certainly bill us for the transport.

Wow! What a delicious wine!

La Tesnière is a vineyard near the Clos Roche Blanche. The owner, whose
first name is Michel but whose last name escapes me (although I could call France tomorrow morning and find out), is the president of a small cooperative that is entirely in biodynamie. What an oddity!

He is also a childhood friend of Catherine Roussel from the Clos Roche
Blanche. Anyhow, Michel has a great vineyard site. He sold some of his grapes to Thierry Puzelat from the Clos du Tue Boeuf.

Thierry and his brother Jean-Marie are known by every French hipster for their micro-vinifications of Cheverny and Touraines. It is rare that they get the AOC because there is always something atypical about their wines. Thankfully there is still some non-conformist wine out there!

Anyhow, Jean-Marie Puzelat is single and Thierry is married with children. Money is tight and Jean-Marie doesn't want to expand Tue Boeuf, so Jean-Marie gave his blessing for Thierry to start a small négoce business on the side. The current bottling of La Tesnière Pineau d'Aunis comes from this négoce.

One word describes this wine:

Wow!

We also got in the Tue-Boeuf Brin de Chevre Ménu Pineau 2000. Concentration, fullness and length. By the way, this is a white wine.

We also got in the Tue-Boeuf Chevery Rouge. As everyone knows, this is 60% Pinot Noir and 40% Gamay. It is light, almost troubled. It looks like some grapes dropped off a vine, somehow got pressed, then somehow got vinified without any human intervention. Lovely, delicious stuff. Cloudy because it ain't filtered or stabilized, but luscious. Numbskulls will complain it is short. Wine lovers will be delighted out of their minds.

Although it ain't that Pineau d'Aunis.

Congratulations to Jean-Marie and Theirry! Great work in the vines and great work in the cuvérie!

Oh, and I forgot the Clos du Tue-Boeuf Buisson Poilleux. As everyone knows, this comes from old vines. Old, old vines. And is all Sauvignon Blanc. Although you might not guess so. It doesn't have gooseberries and it doesn't have cat pee.

I'm off to Detroit this week. May not have time to write here. Happy trails!


A horrible picture of Thierry and Jean-Marie Puzelat taken by an incompetent photographer
- Joe Dressner 9-29-2001 4:50 am [link] [add a comment]

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