"Follow your own star" ~ Dante Alighieri The wine trail in Italy  ~ 1988 ~ Colli Orientali del Friuli I t had been a difficu...

Gregory Balogh, President of Maisons Marques & Domaines celebrates with winemaker Pio Boffa F olks have been waiting for the latest ...

L ooking back over the year, one of the best times I had in 2010 was Easter with Brett Jones and Wink Lorch . We met at the S ymposium for ...

...and here's to a Happy (and Bubbly) New Year! T hat's one of the new Prosecco DOCG's, Conegliano-Valdobbiadene , from Mont...

...of a fool W here are we? Two days before Christmas? And here I am running around with wine in the back, my apron and box cutter, my c...

Yeah, you can laugh at "them Texans" with their funny accents and their big hair, but where in America can you find, on the Monday...

M aybe it is because we are nearing the end of another year. Or because the last five months have been so very busy. Perhaps it is the new l...

“ I f I had not come to Rome I would not be who I am.” So it was with pain I read the words of a friend who lives in Rome, writing that she ...

One traffic cone, two traffic cones ~ Traffic Cone Porn I started going over 8,000 photographs from the year. After getting through Janu...

I ’m so very sorry. I seem to have fallen off the wine trail, once again. I don’t know what to tell you. I know you want to know more abou...

A fter five years and countless html fiddling around with this site, I figured I should oughta change it before it becomes a “classic” sit...

W as I in Paris? Palermo? Havana? Walking along a dark street on my way to a dinner appointment I was reminded of the day that had just unfo...

A nother year has come and vanished. Another harvest. And the new oil is now here. New oil, showing us the promise of the harvest in its sha...

I t never gets easier. 30 years doing this. Someone forgets something. Like history, for example. And then, there we are, back at the starti...

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