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“I have had a great life from marching for the victory of Viet Cong, to bringing real, natural wines to America, to working with vignerons who have made a difference, raising money for Partners in Health in Haiti, and to sticking out my middle finger to every pompous, reactionary asshole I came across in and out of the wine world. Fuck them and celebrate humanity!”
Alice Feiring - The Feiring Line
“The people who Joe touched (and punched) were many. And he effected all of our drinking and the way we look at life through that glass.”
“He was uncompromising, brilliant, one of the funniest people I will ever know, kind, sweet and took no prisoners.”
Sommelier Levi Dalton on Twitter
“Anyone who says Joe Dressner wasn't a hedonist clearly never ate with the man. "Are you going to eat those?" -Joe Dressner”
“Buying a bottle of wines Joe brought in wasn’t merely buying an AOC or a brand, it was buying the people, the land, the history behind the wine.”
“But that was Joe, in part: blunt, acerbic, uncompromising and provocative, and not necessarily in control of his ridicule. Yet Joe was also principled, honest, articulate, outrageously funny, and man, did he know wine.”
“There’s nothing more boring than wine talk. Wine is about inspiration, why reduce wine to boredom.”
“But that was how he sold so many people on wines that weren’t obviously likable. He was difficult; his wines could be difficult. In either case, you could see the virtues and charm, or not. In either case, he wasn’t losing sleep over it.”
Mike Steinberger’s Wine Diarist
“Joe was not the compromising type—you could see that in his wines, and you could see it, too, in the online spats in which he occasionally became embroiled. I once asked a mutual friend how it was that this irascible New Yorker managed to get so many outstanding French winemakers to work with him. He is good to his growers, I was told—he was fiercely loyal to them and protective of their interests.”
A round-up of Joe Dressner tributes.
Reading List - Special Edition
September 19, 2011
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Winemaker Pierre Luneau-Papin & Joe Dressner