Information on Tastings in Detroit....Press Release from Cloverleaf Wines

Dressner on Craic

Q: What’s the craic?

A: Comedian, contrarian, wine visionary and importer Joe Dressner is coming to Michigan next weekend. You are invited to meet him, have a few glasses of wine, and see the renaissance of Detroit from the perspective of fabulous Corktown.

From the Cloverleaf to the Roots

Corktown is Detroit’s oldest neighborhood and the center of a torrent of urban renewal. It was named after county Cork in Ireland. Every cloverleaf has deep roots there and it’s time for Cloverleaf to follow them.

Space is limited and time is short.

So don’t wait to reserve your craic in Corktown!

Reply or call Cloverleaf now – (248) 357-0400

Corks Over Corktown

WARMUP:
LOS PISTOLEROS

Sunday, September 23, 6-8 p.m.
Enjoy Slows Barbeque and tour the famous Los Pistoleros studios and O’Connor Real Estate (all adjacent to one another). Los Pistoleros is a group of Detroit artists and builders who prioritize the craft of carpentry and the re-use of building materials from abandoned structures. Tight-grained, virgin forest pine – commonly used as studs and joists in old Detroit houses – are transformed here into unique, handsome finishing wood that would be unobtainable any other way (while saving it from a date with the landfill!) Slows itself is festooned with this material. (Did you see the paper today? It’s all happening.) $35 – call Cloverleaf now (248) 357-0400

MAIN EVENT:
BAILE CORCAIGH

Monday, September 24, 6:30 p.m. Dinner begins promptly at 7:00.
Enjoy a crack six-course meal with ten astonishing, delicious, natural wines. Savor spicy crab cakes with old-vine white burgundy. Indulge in leek, potato and cheese pie with red burgundy. Feast on Clonakilty style corned beef and savoie cabbage with old-vine syrah. A full vegetarian menu will be offered as an alternative (to include, among other things, Paddy’s Pancakes: crepes filled with spinach and mushroom a la crème.) $45 – call Cloverleaf now (248) 357-0400

Dressner on Craic

The New York Times' Eric Asimov wrote this about the wines of Joe's Louis/Dressner Selections:

"The wines that I love the best are most often the result of winemakers who combine great terroir with a minimalist winemaking approach, who care for their land, believe in balance and refreshment, imagine their wines as part of a meal, and first and foremost make wines to please themselves.

"I was thinking about this yesterday at an industry tasting of wines imported by Louis/Dressner Selections. This firm, based in New York, seeks out wines that are made in that style. It’s not the only importer that specializes in these sorts of wines, nor is it specifically idealistic. The wines happen to be the sort that the principals like themselves.

"I like an awful lot of them, too. In fact, I was struck at the tasting by how many of the wines stood out as bright and alive."

I can't promise, but maybe I'll make pizza: