Sept 7, 2006 the Full Corn Moon~ Slated to be the brightest full moon of 2006, and I’ve got a house full of ones from the other side. They l...

Six Degrees of Separation The photograph above is from April of 1972, San Francisco. I was there, behind the camera, my trusty Canon VIT. Th...

I was looking at the previous posting and the picture of my family, before I was born and wondering: What did they eat, what songs did they ...

At a recent family gathering, there were 3 male and 13 female members of the family. At the recent Texas Sommelier Conference, 40% of the at...

It’s the 30th of the month, and again I’m writing this from New York. A seminar on Nebbiolo by Seth Box, the MHUSA Italian Wine Director. Se...

Aug 28, 2005 ...I wrote down the date one year earlier, as I fly into NY. Katrina on my mind. Wine, food, heritage. Aaron Neville, he and h...

Texas Sommeliers Phil Natale and D'Lynn Proctor A long, but good day, with many great seminars. This one by D.C. Flynt, M.W., about Bur...

Just a few notes, rounding out a challenging week. On to the good news. Robt. Parker has shuffled his deck . Pierre Rovani and Daniel Thoma...

Stop setting up your websites with FLASH! We don't need the whole story of your beginning, your mission statement, everytime we go to yo...

Nearing the end of the Italian summer. Those of us who haven’t been there the whole time, all of August, have missed the miracle of summer ...

Texas~Vineyards for Stone? or Italy~Vineyards for Wine... One week later, back in the warm Texas cradle of love. Our vineyards here have t...