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Showing posts with label Imaginative Narration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Imaginative Narration. Show all posts
Sunday, July 16, 2023

What kind of life have you had?

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  I n memory of Luigi Pira and Dino Illuminati I was in the room next to my wine closet when I thought I heard the murmur of low voices. Th...
Sunday, February 28, 2021

Wanted: Wine Tastemakers – Older White Men Need Not Apply?

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Feb. 29, 2040 Dear Salem Morgon, Thank you for your inquiry regarding the position we posted. We are currently screening the next level ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

I waited for you at the train station, but you never showed up. So, I guess I’ll go to Tuscany without you.

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I t was a long shot, for sure. We had casually talked about meeting in Rome and taking the train to Tuscany. It was over a couple of bottles...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

A letter, found in an abandoned home, next to a stream of unconscious and constant agitation

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[Editor's note: this letter was unsigned inside an envelope on the desk of the empty home. It could be the letter was written by the own...
Sunday, February 02, 2020

Italian wine and the pursuit of power

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Meanderings from the streets of Palermo I’ m back in my family nerve center, if only for a few hours. It is winter, the moon solitary ab...
Sunday, December 08, 2019

“喜劇結束了” - The State of Italy - Wine, Culture, All of It - in 2120

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“Italian investment of time and resources in importing wine to China will ultimately turn out to be a big mistake. The Chinese will eventua...
Sunday, September 01, 2019

Burning Man At 50 - Five Gen ΑΩ Women Who Are Changing Wine and the World

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Reporting from Black Rock City, August 31, 2036... T his is Leia Rippley; I am now 85. And as they say, 85 is the new 30, thanks to nan...
Sunday, July 21, 2019

"There are no interlopers in my vineyard - they all are indigenous living things"

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Pt. VII All we knew was that they were grown above in the vineyards in their native state. And they were made in a natural way. Not in the...
Sunday, July 14, 2019

Cracking Open the Corycian Cave (and the Key to Peace)

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Pt. VI "This was my revolution. Italian wine, in 1957, was not so delicious. It had alcohol, lots of dried earth flavor, but it was l...
Sunday, July 07, 2019

A Symphony of Wine in 100 Movements

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Pt. V Who could we get here to help us, help this amazing woman who was unknown, outside of Tuscany and Florence, but, in my mind, was one...
Sunday, June 30, 2019

Creating Your Own Current in the Sea of Life

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Pt. IV “Diana pulled out a small bottle, a dessert wine. It was amber and smelled of cloves and honey and celery. Odd creature, but quite ...
Sunday, June 23, 2019

Living Free in a World of Chains

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Pt. III “So, my journey took me to the field and through the vines right in front of the grapes. And there they were, everyone a story, al...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

In Tuscany, Leaving it all Behind, for the Odyssey of a Lifetime

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Pt. II “What this person is asking, is what are we doing here? Have we come to help?” my friend translated. We were tired, we were thirst...
Sunday, June 02, 2019

An Epic Journey in Pursuit of the Evolution of Native Wine

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Pt. I...in loving memory of Al Pasquino I was living in Florence for a brief time. And at the macrobiotic mensa a friend had made mentio...
Sunday, December 16, 2018

La fille Américaine in France, making wine (naturally) in Italy - Pt II

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U ncle Emilio’s wife, Serafina, sent Anne Marie a note. “Uncle Emilio isn’t doing so well. After his last fall in the vineyard, he just ha...
Sunday, December 09, 2018

La fille Américaine in France, making wine (naturally) in Italy - Pt I

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A nne Marie was from a new generation of global citizens. Born in America in the late 1980’s, from parents who immigrated from Europe, her...