S o much of what we’re enveloped in lately seems to be a battle over where to plant one’s flag. There is such an overabundance of informatio...

redoing a 2025 blog post over a 2016 set of guesses about Italian wine in America   T en years ago this past January I sat down and made a...

I t's been the better part of two decades since a corkscrew and a decanter first started arguing with each other in the back of a restau...

R ecently I was, what else, talking wine with a friend. Sicily came up (we were sipping on a Grillo) and the notion of just how far Sicilian...

H ow many times do you read something, hear something, talk to someone, and the subject comes around to passion. I'm not talking about s...

I don't know if this is a redundant type of notion, but once again I am thinking about wine, wine tasting, the wine tasting experience ...

Photo ©Tom Hyland 2026   T om Hyland has spent the better part of five decades chasing Italian wine, and approaching 100 trips into the coun...

Rocco, as I found him on July 20th  J uly came and went. My month, and the month for so many people I know and love. I look forward to July ...

T here is another story I really want to tell , but this one comes first. Last week I had a few fellows over for a birthday meal — they were...

...my 6 bits worth T here is something about a birthday that both excites and terrorizes me. Of course, the excitement comes from an early...

(homage to Gianni Di Venanzo) T erry Theise has a new piece up wrangling for the defense of "fine wine" as a category. His method...

T here's a press release sitting in my inbox announcing that the Amerigo Vespucci — Italy's training ship, the so-called most beaut...

O f late, wine has been coursing through my thoughts. Not the alcohol — that's not what this is about. No — it's what wine did to my...

from the archives Great-Grandfather Assuntino Luigi Cevola in Palermo - 1890's I never knew my Great-Grandfather, Assuntino, but I met...

In continuation from here ...     A fter the dinner Giorgio’s wife made for us, we sat around in his drawing room sipping on Cynar. It was A...