T he sad and abandoned tomato patch was enduring the last few warm days of the year. Tomatoes were hanging on, with little hope, as the ho...

G iorgio Soldati is a very lucky man. Famous for a white wine in red wine country, dancing to the beat of his own drum, making memorable w...

Carrozza Siciliana ~ Emozioni Tantrici O ften when visiting wineries in Italy they will have a space set aside for a museum. This past t...

Teresa (Scalora) Borgia and grandson Andrea Farru with picture of her parents in 1921 I t appeared to be just a coincidence. We were out...

I f I’ve heard it once, I’ve heard it a hundred times in America. But in Italy, it’s very different story. One would think, from an Ameri...

"Location, location, location"  That's no potato, folks, that's over $1000 worth of genuine white truffle from Alba ...

H ow does the taste of fresh white truffles differ when having them with Barolo versus Barbaresco? In a rare confluence of coincidence, we...

Ovello to Novello redux O ur first stop this Monday on the Langhe Harvest Trail was Barbaresco. Aldo Vacca, director of Produttori del B...

Marziano puts an un-sufured cork in it A wine I wasn’t expecting to try, as I started my lap around the Langhe, was the ZEROSOLFITI Lan...

Near the Porta Genova H ow does one explain “orange” wine to friends outside the natural wine cabal? Last night, I had a free night in M...

T he big lie has been for years that Italians ship different wines to America and save the best wines for themselves. The big secret is...

L ooking forward to posting from the wine trail in Italy the next week or so. First destination – Piemonte. Not quite a death march, but ...