Louis/Dressner Selections

New Producer: Yannick Meckert!

Yannick Meckert!

Tips For Navigating the Website.

How to navigate the website.

Desktop vs Mobile: We know people use their phones a lot, so we've worked hard on ensuring the site functions well on mobile devices. Having said that, we recommend using a laptop/desktop to optimally peruse our content.  Glossary: At its core, this has always been a website written for wine professionals *attempting* to glean information on the wines we import - and hopefully see a picture of the vigneron's dog. Since the jargon can be so technical, we've added an <glossary term="glossary" title="1427">interactive glossary</glossary> to the text for those unfamiliar with the baffllingly complex world of wine terminology. Even if you're a seasoned pro, you might learn a thing or two. And if you'd rather read the content without the glossary, simply head to the main menu bar and turn it off.   "Our Wines" Section:  In the "Our Wines" section, we've offered a variety of filter categories for you to explore and discover all the cuvées we import. These filters can be combined together to narrow down results. If you hit a wall with no results, simply erase one of the filters or clear all filters.  Technical Information For Each Wine: 78% of the wines we import have extremely detailed technical information when clicked on, dare I say the most technical anywhere on the internet. Half of these are probably woefully outdated. Search: If you know what producer or wine you are searching for, the search should quickly autofill what you need. Go ahead, give it a whirl. You can also hit enter after searching and skup the autofill. Hyperlinks/PDFs: Every single piece of content on the website has its own hyperlink. This means you can easily share a specific producer page, article, wine or filter combination with anyone. You can also save or print out PDF's bt clicking the PDF icon. Copy/Paste: Due to the website's design, if you need to copy/paste anything, the glossary needs to be turned off for the text to paste correctly. We recommend using the PDF feature instead.  Also, if you are going to straight up use our writing verbatim, PLEASE credit us when doing so. Seems obvious but we see it happen all the time.  A Shit-Ton of Written Content: The articles themselves can often be very long, and for this reason we developed a Propriety Pop Up System™ where you can easily scroll through various articles/wines and "pop out" to efficiently look at the rest of the content. We've tried our best to pack as many dog pictures as possible in there, but the digital ink has been spilled: the cumulation of decades' worth of writings from Joe, Denyse, Kevin and Jules is here for you to read. A huge part of the work with this new website was to find better ways to condense and extract essential information you need without getting lost in all that BORING text.  We still think you should check it out. Don't worry, there are plenty of pictures. And you might even find the writing interesting. Or funny. Or both.

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harvest report 04.12.2024

2024 Harvest Report from La Distesa

After a dramatic 2023,  we were very worried about the seasonal trends we started seeing in 2024. The winter was hot and dry and caused early budding and flowering. Spring was normal with the right amount of rain. The vines were beautiful and full of grapes. This is perhaps due to the fact that last year the plants had practically no production in 2023 and had accumulated reserves for the following year. Throughout the spring we let cover crops grow vigorously: broad beans, mustard, barley and vetch accompanied the vegetative push of the vines. July and August were extremely hot and above all completely without rain. Some areas of the vineyards suffered and there we had to harvest very early because the grapes were burning. But more generally, the stress blocked the ripening of the grapes: a year that seemed very precocious in the end was one of the slowest in recent years. With the beginning of September very nice rains arrived that helped plump up the grapes. It was a joyful harvest. We harvested a lot of grapes, very healthy and with excellent acidity. Alcohol this year was lower than usual. We will have light and fresh wines, very easy to drink but the Crus will be also complex wines thanks to the beautiful acidity that will guarantee excellent evolution over time. Now we are waiting for the oxidation-reduction processes related to the fine lees to enrich the wines during the winter. <img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/dd/52/dd5258b667fab294a485fee35bfeb813.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/b6/72/b672c99eec123cc573feb5117942cffa.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/50/eb/50eb58418daf3e0b177ba1ff03038938.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/19/48/19483a8590cd95fd34042d40e48232ca.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/eb/f3/ebf36e29f368def5eef8a1891520d0c3.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/1c/2c/1c2cb10b35262077e5459d135904b5f9.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/e6/85/e685f21ea0b284cd5dd0a4e05951681b.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1038/95/36/953619167feb594f7cdc182d7d49beea.jpg" />

producer 22.05.2019

Domaine Bernard Baudry