From the "I must confess" department... It had been almost ten years since I had last had the wine. It was the perfect wine for on...

Nothing. Just a bunch of random tweets I have been gathering, some of you folks might recognize a line or two. Inspired by a piece I read by...

From the "recent conversations with winemakers" department... Q. I noticed in a recent meeting we were in one of the people was ta...

From the archives August 12, 2007 The Dream: I walk into an ancient Italian restaurant where I used to work that no longer exists. Ali is st...

from the "Shake your money maker" files Chris Bridges, aka Ludacris , in Italia Blue and yours truly, aka Italian wine guy , in A...

Blogger is still a little sluggish lately. I gathered the links for posts I did in the past few weeks , in case you missed one or two, or j...

Great-Grandfather Assuntino Luigi Cevola in Palermo - 1890's I never knew my Great-Grandfather, Assuntino, but I met him, thirteen year...

Italy, Texas, y'all Just a quickie as my winemaker colleague from Romagna, Stefano Salvini, and I are working the Texas market. Ste...

While the wine world wrestles with the issue of what makes a wine natural , I am pointing my camera in another alley. I love natural wines...

From the “just think about it” department… Dear Mr. Ferragamo, I know you wield power over a huge corporation and family in Italy. I know y...