Food & Wine Magazine Awards This Blog the Top WIne Blog! The October issue of Food & Wine Magazine has an article on the Seven Best Wine Blogs. Incredibly, this site was the first one mentioned! I suppose this means that I author the top-rated wine blog! It is difficult to know if I should be proud or ashamed of this coveted award. Being a blogger is a full-scale admission of egomania and self-indulgence. Being rewarded for blogging and boasting about it on one's blog is the act of a confirmed madman. All my thanks to all the little people who helped in the long blog climb uphill. I'll never forget you! I haven't mentioned Jim Bassett for some time. Jim is the guy who came up with this blogging software and has been incredibly generous and patient in allowing me to maintain this site (along with the Louis/Dressner site which uses his software). Thanks Jim! And I'd also like to thank my wife Denyse, without which none of this blogging would have been possible. My children who have given me so much blogging support over the years. My parents, who have stood by my blog in the tough times and the good times, My business associates who have suffered my blogging when there was actual work to do. Then, of course, there is my dog Buster, man's best friend, who was loyal during the blogging lows and the blogging highs. Not to forget.... Food & Wine writes: Joe Dressner is part-owner of Louis/Dressner Selections, an American wine importer specializing in small producers, mostly French wines from highly regarded names like Bernard Baudry and Didier Barouillet. When he's not traveling the world on business, he publishes one of the least pretentious blogs on the Web. It's wise and unspoken, as in a post about the state of wine tasting today: "Wine is not a vehicle for egomania, boastfulness and self-promotion. All the great 'tasters' I have known are able to submerge their ego and understand what is in the bottle." |
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"... etpic/363/" 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 an..." |