P eople love stories. And I’m no exception. I adore a good story, especially from a master storyteller, like my pal Carmen Castorina. I love...

D espite the foul weather (after all, it is January and winter!) this week in NY has been another great week of networking and celebrating a...

This week in New York during the Italian Trade Commission event, Vino 2011, there will be many folks, from Italy and the USA, converging for...

On and on and on and on and on the Italian trail again - Photo by Teresa Rafidi M y barking poodle buddy, Ron , likes to lampoon my blog...

"Spill the wine ~ take that pearl" T he holidays have barely ended. It was a long work up from August until Dec 37th. And then b...

"First introduced" in America ~Photo by Teresa Rafidi D uring the holidays, many of us take to the country, to visit grandfathe...

...wasn't Italian A t the end of the year, a small group of wine and food lovers gathered at one of the hottest scenes in town. Nosh...

...To the long and winding road. I n the real world, New Years day was almost a week ago. In the world of making numbers and getting ev...

W hat is it about a person, or a wine, that makes them weather all kinds of adverse conditions? Why do some bounce back? Why do some fold? W...

"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...