I taly is full of characters. People with unusual life stories. And in rustic Tuscany, not the one the tourists go to in droves, I ran acros...

H ow did one get here? It is an island on the way to the North Pole. How does an Italian land here and decide to make wine? How does anyone?...

T he sound of the waves crashing upon the shore has been replaced with the sound of my heart beating in my chest. As if in a dream, I am tr...

W e’re not home 48 hours and I get the call. “Pack your bags, you’re needed in Italy. Flight leaves tomorrow at 10 AM.” Could it be that It...

O ff the grid for a glorious week. No cell phone. No Internet. No twittering nabobs of negativity. No Facebook. What we did get in return wa...

This was originally posted in June of 2009 T here has been discussion in Italy about the future of wine in Calabria . In brief, there are...

This post originally appeared here June 15, 2006 and I rewrote it to reappear on saignee when Cory did his 32 Days of Natural Wine last ye...

I t's been a little hectic around here lately - It often seems more like the wine trials than than the wine trails . So we're go...

Tutti ne parlano, pochi(ssimi) lo fanno. The heat of a July summer will do many things to one who actively plows through the hard work of ...

I don’t recall when it was exactly but recently I was in the company of Italians and we were talking about all things Italian. Politics, the...

♫ Just take everything down to Highway 61 ♫ Maybe it’s the little 60’s marathon I am running in my head, but lately it seems like we are ...

from the "one of these things is not like the other" dept. “I need you to go have lunch at you know where,” the salesman left me...

T aking a break from the DOCG madness and the Calabria Sequence , which got a nod from Eric Asimov and the New York Times this week. A ...

♫ Got the wings of heaven on my shoes, I'm a dancin' man and I just can't lose ♫ I t was too good to be true, that we might ha...

I was really wondering what I had just done. On the road with a young family which seemed like an eternity, only to land in some desolate t...