Don't Miss the Real Wines Only! (No Spoofulation Please) Class at Astor Center! Mark your calendar! Thursday, March 27th from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at New York's Astor Center! Call (212) 674-7501 to reserve your spot and ensure your attendance at this event! I will be giving a class on Real Wines vs. Spoofulation at the new Astor Center conveniently located in the same building as my corporate office. That is, on Lafayette near 4th Street in Manhattan. I will present a series of real wines and contrast them with horrible fake wines. I will explain what makes real wines real and what makes horrible fake wines horrible. Or something like that. You will enjoy drinking real wines and find drinking them a profound and pleasurable experience. You will also drink crappy industrial wines and be physically repulsed by their aromatics and taste. There will be an informative lecture, tasting, questions and answers, and signed copies of Alice Feiring's new book. Dress is formal, although not black tie. Bloggers are prohibited from attendance as are copyright lawyers. Don't miss this major event -- it costs less than 5% of the current cost of the 2005 Screaming Eagle! The informative Astor Center website, Step Right Up to the Astor Center, has a definitive biography of myself: Joe has a dog Buster, a daughter Alyce and a son Jules. He enjoys bicycling and has an entertaining blog: www.joedressner.com. He is 6' 2" and overweight and lives in the East 50s and St-Gengoux-de-Scissé in Southern Burgundy. Other parts of the site also mention I have a wife Denyse Louis who is a partner in our company. The Astor Center website has a description of the class: Joe Dressner, founder and partner of Louis/Dressner Selections, will lead this emotionally charged class centered on the difference between "real wines" and those of modern industrial production. Joe will show how great work in the vineyards allows the vigneron to rely on nature, rather than "spoofulation." What is spoofulation, you ask? To Dressner, spoofulation is a form of manipulation which takes wine away from nature and into the technological world of fake extraction, fake aromatics, fake flavors, fake density, fake acidity, fake tannin levels, fake color and fake sugar levels. Basically, spoofulation, for Dressner, is the process that yields fake wines. Joe presents the argument that the popular notion of what wine tastes like is being ruined by the flood of horrifying industrial products which dominates the market today. Over the course of the class, you will taste through a total of eight wines, two wines each from four different regions: Beaujolais, Muscadet, the Rhône, and the Mâconnais. One of each pair will be from a producer who spoofulates, the other from someone who works naturally. Joe will argue that the natural wine is not only more "politcally correct" but is finally tastier and more satisfying for the consumer. You may not agree with every point in his argument....Dressner not only thinks that spoofulated wines are repulsive, he also thinks they are morally reprehensible! But this is a great opportunity to hear the viewpoint and taste the wines of one of America's leading specialty importers. The whole evening sounds great and I am planning to bring numerous unannounced wines, including my wine of the year in 2007. Don't miss this exciting event. I'm planning to attend myself! |
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