I had this idea when I was driving along a vineyard in California recently. The vineyard had rows of grapes each marked with a different gra...

I tried writing this post with a catchy title, woven with news and personal observations. But it just wasn’t quite right. Too many ingredien...

Dark star crashes, pouring its light into ashes. Two men looked out from prison bars: One saw mud, one saw stars. This has been a long wee...

This is a defining moment all across Italy. Men with names like Alfredo, Dino, Antonio and Piero are handing over their life’s work to their...

These two remind me of someone... I was sitting on my mom’s couch watching the vintage movie Laura, starring the timeless beauty Gene Tierne...

An anaphoric traipse I was itching to open a bottle of the Novello . The first time we received Novello from Italy it must have been 1983. I...

Vercelli ~ early 1980's Where have all the great Italian wine experts gone? Over the weekend I have been thinking about who represe...