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New Producer: Yannick Meckert!
Yannick Meckert!
<p>We've been bringing in Yannick Meckert's wines for almost a year now but just getting around to writing about him. </p>
<p><a href="https://louisdressner.com/producers/yannick%20meckert">It's a whole lot to read and fascinating stuff! </a></p>
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Tips For Navigating the Website.
How to navigate the website.
<p><u><strong>Desktop vs Mobile:</strong></u></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><u><strong>Glossary:</strong></u></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p> "<u><strong>Our Wines" Section: </strong></u></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><u><strong>Technical Information For Each Wine:</strong></u></p>
<p>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 Half of these are probably woefully outdated.</p>
<p><u><strong>Search:</strong></u></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><strong><u>Hyperlinks/PDFs:</u></strong></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p><u><strong>Copy/Paste:</strong></u></p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
<p><u><strong>A Shit-Ton of Written Content:</strong></u></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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. </p>
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Not Huge Quantities But An Excellent 2025 for Domaine Filliatreau!
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">Harvest ended on September 24th after two full weeks at the Domaine Filliatreau.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0px; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">The quality is excellent, good sugar levels and balanced acidity but we did have a dry summer so not a lot of juice.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial"> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">As a comparison, the average is 35hl/ha instead of 57hl/ha in 2020 vintage. </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0px; text-align:start; -webkit-text-stroke-width:0px"><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">T</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:small"><span style="color:#222222"><span style="font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-style:normal"><span style="font-variant-ligatures:normal"><span style="font-variant-caps:normal"><span style="font-weight:400"><span style="letter-spacing:normal"><span style="orphans:2"><span style="text-transform:none"><span style="widows:2"><span style="word-spacing:0px"><span style="white-space:normal"><span style="background-color:#ffffff"><span style="text-decoration-thickness:initial"><span style="text-decoration-style:initial"><span style="text-decoration-color:initial">he berries are medium sized but pure. We should have a very nice vintage. Here are some photos.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>
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A Calm, Early 2025 for La Petite Empreinte
<p>In our case, 2025 was a calm but very early vintage: not too much rain and just when it was needed, with the exception of August were it really came down a bit too hard. </p>
<p>This forced us to harvest earlier than originally planned on the reds to avoid any rot. Those were picked on August 27th and 28th. Their maturity is an ideal 12% potential complimented by nice acidity. At 45hl/h, it was also a good yield.</p>
<p>The whites were picked on September 9th with a potential of 13% and a disappointing 20hl/h. </p>
<p><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1075/7a/6f/7a6fe736c1b0a4fcca8c6ec1c5c62a6f.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1075/25/d9/25d97716c4f2e1068a54c2c3d2d302aa.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1075/7b/6e/7b6e64cc0b5e6cf9d05552d8b7f3210c.jpg" /><img src="https://louisdressner.com/uploads/images/article//1075/c6/7b/c67b2610be65ee9ad127ec50c8ac68f7.jpg" /></p>
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