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Importer of natural and real wines from France, Italy, Portugal and elsewhere. Nothing awesome, no reason to get stoked.

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Joined April 2011
Still a few seats available for the sure-to-be unforgettable De Bartoli dinner in the Airstream tonight. Meet Sebastiano De Bartoli!
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New Louis/Dressner website is live! Don't forget to sign up to our RSS feed. Louisdressner.com
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Alberto Tedeschi, the Maestro of Pignoletto, is in New York and Boston this week for tastings. www.louisdressner.com
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Exciting new Champagne concept from @louisdressner -- La Dosette de Stévia -- www.louisdressner.com
Yet another Joe Dressner blog at www.louisdressner.com! Canonica from Piedmont, the inside story. Paid for by wines from #Liechtenstein
New Sunday blog is up on the www.louisdressner.com site from me. It is May Day celebration of San Francisco's martyred Herb Caen. Read it!
It is becoming acceptable now for people in the trade to hide their affiliations and pretent they are impartial RMP was better than that!
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I am beginning to appreciate Robert Parker. I never agreed with all his evaluations and found him bullyish. But the man was not on the take.
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Is there a way to integrate sommeliers with vignerons so that they become ambassadors for the terroir not their tasting sensations?
I am getting an ipad soon. I want to turn it into a Google machine -- synchronized mail, calendar, contacts all based on good. Any ideas?
In other major news....my blog will now appear at www.louisdressner.com. This will be a joint effort with Jules Dressner
Clos Roche Blanche Pineau d'Aunis being served at Galatoires in New Orleans.
Replying to @Terencedhughes
@SorStrappo poulsard comes from Jura not Savoie
Any ideas on handling brain cancer and drinking wines from the Savoie? Which grape varietals would go best with stage 3 oligodendroglioma?
Gratifying to see Huet and Pinon featured in Times by @ericasimov. Huet has the great terroir, but amazing what Pinon does in back hills.
New issue of The Natural Wine Review will be out on Wednesday.
I am a former Maoist! Be resolute, fear no sacrifices and surmount every difficulty to win victory!
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Buying an ipad is like hiring michel rolland as an oenologist. I am a disgrace to the wine world. What hypocrisy!
I just ordered an Ipad. I am profoundly ashamed of myself!