Some time back, when I was invited to Sicily to evaluate several vineyard projects, a few of us were sitting around the midnight table with ...

Forget the Euro and the price of oil, the mergers and strategic joint adventures; let us plunge back through the pinhole of reality. Italy, ...

August 10, 2008 From: La Isola I find it nearly impossible to wade into shallow water these days. Or maybe the problem is that I am wading i...

I wouldn't want to belong to any club that would have me as a member." - G. Marx The bells and chimes are making a racket outs...

I have been thinking about pain lately. Pain as pleasure. Pain as remembrance. Pain as ennoblement. It can double one over on a regular basi...

Whirlwind week. Three days in Chicago, marathon wine tastings and food forays. Korean, Italian, Pizza, New American. Sicily, Piemonte, Campa...

Three days in Chicago, before the harvest in Blanco, Texas. Tasting new wines from Austria and Italy. Eating our way through this town. Kore...