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Learning to love wine again in the era of Patrioligarchy “W elcome to earth. Please take a glass and a seat. Someone will be with you shor...

"It's like déjà vu all over again" -Yogi Berra T here appears to be no bottom in the hustle to bloviate and sully us with al...

…everybody wants happiness. Round and round we all do race, everybody looking in a different place. Y eah, pretty much how it seems. I see...

In Memory of Patty Wright-Ferrini... Y esterday a dear, good friend died. We met in college, that’s how long we go back in time. She was a f...

Inspired by Jon Lovitz of Saturday Night Live fame... I had an epiphany recently. And it was, the new reality in America is that the old ...

I’ m just going to come right out and say it: I don’t like being me anymore. I was born a wine, but I’m tired of being locked up in this dar...

O ops!... I did it again - Went to a wine trade tasting and seminar. Something I used to do, lots and lots of, when I was visible. But now, ...

S omewhere in time - when you remember another time - things were deeper, truer, bluer, more connected to a believable reality. But here we ...

I t seems, more and more lately, that aging folks just can’t step away from the dais. Whether it is confined to the wine and spirits trade (...

W ine, associated with appreciation and enjoyment and part of a cultural and culinary movement that was defined by the freewheeling social a...

T emporarily shut in by the arrival of snow (and winter), I was remanded to a nostalgic dream space that has been annexed by an external cal...

A young wine friend texted me a photo of a bottle he had in his presence, a 2013 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles. ...

T his week I cleared out the RSS feeds for wine writing links. Since I’m not following the wine news anymore, and not part of the wine news-...

A t long last, the red wine known as Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is having its day in the sun, basking in the glory from the newly anointed acol...