There’s an old East Texas term called "firch-piling" that I learned about from an Oregon magazine many moons ago. The magazine, ca...

The wine business is on the move. There has been a fundamental shift. Depending on who one talks to, it is either so small as to be barely n...

I went to a Modern Mexican restaurant the other day. Looking at the wine list, eight wines, and two of them were Cal-Itals, an Arneis and a...

“The vine and humankind have walked the same path together for thousands of years.” This quote, remembered from some ancient text, sets our ...

I had to laugh, to keep from crying. The local restaurant critic revisited an old landmark restaurant that had been, in its day, the hallmar...

Images flash across the screen of my inner all night movie show. Prone, staring at the ceiling, waiting for the wine or the tequila or the s...

From the "life has funny convergences" department... 64 years ago, April 28, 1945, Mussolini was found and shot and then hanged. C...

The pace of life after Vinitaly has been brisk. The Italians have been flooding the landscape to work with us in our hand-to-hand combat. We...

What does one do if they think the Italian wine industry is going in the wrong direction? And if one has a rather large interest in the succ...

I’d had it. One more over-oaked, alcohol soaked Tuscan wine and I was going to go bonkers. It was then that I decided to visit my friend R...