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...

S ince migrating away from the wine trade, I have been able to devote more time to a long-time love of mine, photography. Of late, I have pa...

I' m walking around a wine shop. Filled with wines from all over the world. The place is abuzz with sales reps and suppliers waiting to ...

 from the archives... On Italy, and what it does to a person March 2011 · Italy: Without a Doubt "When it all gets to be a little to...

Ecce Homo A nother press release arrived in my inbox, this one from Sicily. Assovini Sicilia, the island's wine producers association, w...

A master sommelier flew into town last month and put on a master class in Sicilian wine. He was good — prepared, a little nervous, which in...

I have been thinking about this word for a long time. In October of 2009, I wrote a piece I called “ Paralyzed in Paradise ” — a fever dre...

O nce upon a time, it was enough to put a good selection of wines on your wine list and have a stable of equally attractive wines by the gla...

F ranco was a good soldier of the vine. Every year he would trudge off to Verona to go to the Vinitaly wine show. Every year he would talk w...

O f late, I’ve noticed an uptick in interest in Chianti Classico. And not the rock bottom, straw-covered bottles that dominate the curlicue ...

T here it was, on a little whiteboard at my gym. Each trainer had listed their favorite food. I was expecting things like "açaí bowls...

I n these times, as in many times, there is the pull between appropriation and inspiration. On the wine trail in Italy, there is also this p...

W ith the onrush of everything AI in these moments, there was an article recently by Eric Asimov in the New York Times entitled “ A.I. Is C...