Please wait This interview with Marc Kemlin took place in May, On September 17th, -exactly a year ago- my father Joseph Mathew Dressner died of brain cancer. It's hard to believe days have passed: I'm not sure where the time went, undoubtedly because in that short period so much has happened, changed, shifted and evolved.
Five trips to Europe, visits to a dozen states, moving from California back to New York It's certainly been a busy year for me, but nothing has marked me more, or been more challenging than learning to live without the most important person in my life. Friends, vignerons, co-workers, distributors, retailers: Joe had the uncanny ability to blur these lines and, by following his example, I am proud to call all the contributors part of my family.
Because that's what we are! Power in numbers! That night felt so natural. But as life's tragic cruelty is quick to remind us, you don't often get enough opportunities like that one Joe's attitude was sometimes unfathomable and enigmatic, because anyone trying to understand Nature, Culture and Man in this world will set forth a thousand propositions But under that hard facade, Joe had constructed an infallible logic of open-mindedness, bridging the gap between viticultural worlds, unifying them by valuing nature and celebrating the diversity characterized by an infinite amount of different wines made by different people.
Just like any civilization Yes, moments like that one, like that precious little meal spent with our families, there will never be enough of them. These are the types of meetings in life, for those of us like Desnos, that make you want to address each passerby on the street I never mentioned the existence of the code, nor did Joe, and I didn't really think about it until he was gone. But I recently mentioned it to Jules, who laughed and said 'yeah of course, that's the so and so I forget what he called it '.
Which confirmed its existence for me. I'm sure that many of you know exactly what I'm talking about. Sometimes Joe used this to insult people, and they weren't sure whether they were being insulted they usually were.
