A million years ago, KPFK in Los Angeles aired a story about the Rolling Stone performer, Brian Jones, who found a tribe of master musici...

O f the epiphanies I had at Vinitaly this year, one of them was over Prosecco. Watching the Prosecco phenomenon over the last 25 years ha...

W hat has happened to Prosecco in America? Has it become but a mere commodity, aimed for a populist demographic, with the lowest price now...

How do you catch a cloud and pin it down? Julie Andrews as Maria von Trapp (L) and Sergio Mionetto (R) I t’s one thing to try and grow a...

T he heart of Europe is marching in Paris today in solidarity against the horrendous atrocities witnessed in the City of Lights this week. I...

O n this last trip to Italy I spent a week in the Conegliano/Valdobbiadene area , where the Prosecco Superiore DOCG comes from. Over a per...

“I ’m a little upset with you over that blog post you wrote about Prosecco .” That was my introduction to Primo Franco, an iconic producer...

Crazy weather day here in Italy in a Cartizze vineyard in the Veneto. I got caught in a hailstorm and torrential rain. Nothing like w...

“H ave you ever been to ‘osteria senza oste’ in Valdobbiadene?” my friend Paolo asked me by email last month. I didn’t have any idea what ...

2013 is starting out to be one of those years in which tumult is the equilibrium. I have participated in the melee in what some people ha...

“What happened in Montalcino earlier this month was horrendous, but as bad as it was, it paled in comparison to what has been going on in...