Picking the right Super Tuscan can sometime seem like judging the best dog at a show. There are so many breeds and manifestations, of wine a...

Say what you want about the Holy Trinity of Italian red wines, Barbaresco, Barolo and Brunello; in these heady days, I am smitten over Amar...

So much for my pastoral wonderings. I tried to rally today but was buffeted back by a still weakened system. Beatrice says she has something...

The past few days have been a blur. Somehow, something hit me, and I became a host for a germ party. So blogging and wine have not been high...

Palermo's DNA Dungeon The 1960’s had ended. The economy was going into a tailspin, the sexual revolution was shifting into seco...

Eggplant reminds me of Trebbiano. Neither is particularly distinctive. Both are rather ubiquitous around the Mediterranean. They often get p...

Photo by Chema Madoz A couple of years ago I was in a car on a freeway in wine country. The driver fell asleep and we went off the road, go...

I have a little card file box of recipes, mostly favorites, from my wife , who is no longer with us. Some of the recipes are printed in a wo...

…Don’t trust anyone over 60 Scrounging For Your Next Meal So far this year, lots of “fine dining”, plenty of great wine. And the year a...