An O-N-D Pep Talk F or the past four months I've felt like the mother of all road warriors, in service of Italian wine. I really tho...

From the “my world and welcome to it” dept… GOVERNMENT WARNING: According to the Surgeon General, women and men who enjoy Italian wine,...

Hint: Eat lots of fruit T he wine and food industry can take its toll. Days of tastings followed by lunches, dinners and more tastings. ...

A fter the seemingly endless exercise of packing on a Sunday night and heading out to the airport on a Monday morning, I found myself at hom...

H ow many times has it happened to you? You’re in some place where you are just backed up against a wall and have nowhere to go but straig...

Sergio Mionetto on top of Cartizze W ine writers must be running out of meaningful subjects, the latest diversion from significant storie...

James Di Carlo delivers the pies D o you ever have one of those weeks when all you can say is “What do you say?” Well, let me tell you, t...

W e’ve all read it many times over. The obit said “Shirley died after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer.” Of course, Shirley isn’t any...

Two-stepping across Texas with Marco Bacci Marco Bacci with Damian Mandola near Austin, Texas H ow does one top a week of Italian wine...

T here are those days when the wine business can be a real treat. Yesterday was one of those. In fact all week has been a textbook “perfect ...

Where O-N-D meets O-M-G I figured it must be the holiday season when I woke up from a dream that had me arguing for Italian wines on a wi...

...To the long and winding road. I n the real world, New Years day was almost a week ago. In the world of making numbers and getting ev...

W as I in Paris? Palermo? Havana? Walking along a dark street on my way to a dinner appointment I was reminded of the day that had just unfo...

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows T his, time, I didn’t fall off the wine trail, I was thrown off. Sensing...

From the "seeing red from sea to shining sea" dept. Wow, what a day this one was. Last week, while not yet October (the “O” in O-N...

In the course of a few days I have witnessed an almost complete 180° of emotions in the play of events around me. Yesterday was the end of t...

One more day to go for calendar year 2009. Yesterday Sausage Paul was in the mood to pop a few bottles, starting with some Nicky Feuillatte ...

“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given" Leo's First Christmas This little guy, who looks strikingly like his handsom...

I must be crazy. Wednesday morning I awoke to sub-freezing temperatures. My Hoja Santa long past giving up the ghost, I set out to check on...