Sometimes it can be overwhelming. There are just so many commitments, travel schedules that tax the healthiest of bodies, and the constant p...

This has been a working weekend, waltzing across Texas in a minivan filled with all manner of Italians, taking us to wine dinners and meetin...

Like any enterprise, one can be too close to always be objective. When it seems that one cannot see the light in the forest, there is one re...

I feel like one of the judges for American Idol. It seems that every three or four hours I get a call from someone wanting to bring new Ital...

I started out to write about a trip I took to Galveston , and a wine that changed my life, the 1964 Monfortino. But as often happens when I ...

This week I came roaring out of debt-free status, after five years. For that time I felt like a millionaire, insofar as I had nothing hangin...

During the harvest of 2006, when I was in Tuscany, I passed by an estate in Greve. I recognized the place as I passed it, going to and comin...

The Empire State Building @ 3AM What a week this has been. The wine trail has ventured from Dallas, Texas to New York and back to Dalla...