F riday would have been my dad’s 98th 109th birthday. How the world has changed since he left us in 1985. I was thinking about that as I ...

From the archives .. O ver the past month, as my personal fog has lifted, there have been dreams. And in these dreams, many of them have...

[from the archives while our blog monster is out on medical leave] High on a hill, it calls to me W hat is it about a place that marks o...

From the archives: Grappling among the Offshoots ~ Gaglioppo and Nerello Mascalese I ’m the one who played tag with you and listened to yo...

from the archives ... I t started last night while I was looking for a bottle of wine to go with the lasagne. I wanted something a bit ru...

from the archives .. Ed. note: Prescient this post was, in 2014. For when I next went to Sicily in 2016, I indeed was in a pretty awful c...

from the archives ... F orget anything you know about Basilicata and Southern Italy. Disregard anyone telling you this is the poorest reg...

After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Fo...

T here is a hint here, regarding future comings and goings. Needless to say, I dont have a lot of time to post right now, or for the next fe...

From the archives - posted 06/15/10 W hile the wine world wrestles with the issue of what makes a wine natural , I am pointing my camera ...

From the Archives ~ Nov. 18, 2007 I have been back in Texas less than a week. During the first half of November, I visited six regions in N...

from the archives M y first time visiting Piedmont was over a generation ago. At the time a winemaking revolution was in its infancy. The I...

From the archives Bagging 'n Bragging H ow many times do we have to read about it? Yes, some folks out there get to taste some ama...

From the archives I thought we might have dodged the bullet. You know, the one whereby all the wines of the country are judged by a few? ...

from the archives ... H e's been gone fifteen years, this son of New Orleans, father and mentor to so many of us. Al was one of the for...

from the archives I ’m sitting at a table, in a restaurant, with a seminal figure in white wine. The beverage director comes up to us to ...

From the archives D riving along the scuttled roads of urban Austin, I finally found a parking place, after 10 minutes of searching. By some...

From the archives D ear Mom and Dad, Well, I'm in Italy. I finally made it to Rome. The last week has been warm. Hotter than where I...

  From the archives O ne of the most misunderstood winemakers in all of time is Jesus Christ. After his miracle at the marriage feast of Ca...

From the archives B y chance, I’m sitting in a restaurant and nearby me is a table of four. Urban dwellers, well-traveled, by the looks of...