Y esterday we traveled south of Dallas to Elm Mott, Texas (somewhere in between Italy and Austin, Texas) , for the Annual Thanksgiving Homes...

from the "I tell the truth and I know what I’m talking about" department I n an amazing turnabout, the European Community has d...

S o you’ve had your Roman holiday. Seen the sights. Taken in the Vatican Museum, the Baths of Caracalla, the Borghese Gardens. Touched the P...

R ome, ah, Roma. Three times this year I have slept in your arms. Three times we’ve met, if only for a moment. Still, you remain eternally y...

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows T his, time, I didn’t fall off the wine trail, I was thrown off. Sensing...

Non essiri duci sinno tu mancianu, non essiri amaru sinno ti futanu* T hose who know me know this has been a heck of a week. Those who rea...

I was passed a message. “He’s gone.” Just like that. Too young. Too much life left in him. But that was it. The End. Life over for Morro . ...

Fragments of dreams, thoughts, imaginings…. “W hat do you expect of me?” Voices were raised. I could hear from behind the closed door, but...

I ’m a young winemaker in Italy. Let’s say the Marche. My grandfather had vineyards. He grew grapes, on 20 acres. Sangiovese and Montepulcia...

California - there is a good place to be... I had a recent comment on this blog: Thanks for attending the New World Wine Experience. I...

T he last time I saw Vegas, it was so long ago, the memory of it isn’t even a blip. Which isn’t all that unusual, for many people’s memories...

F riends Hank and Phillissa Rossi are on one of their round the world trips again. Hank has a list of places in the world he wants to see an...

O n July 18, 1942, 73 young Jewish children started their journey to safety. They would end up in Nonantola, a small town near Modena. Their...

I must have driven through the region a hundred times. Never stopped. Always on my way to somewhere more important. Alba, Montalcino, Fiumi...

Love means never having to say you're Syrah O n my last trip to Italy, a colleague asked me to sit in for him at a B2B in Grosseto. Mi...