` “Y ou’re all over the place!” my friend Mario said to me. For sure, the past month has been a roller-coaster ride, from Canada to Italy, o...

Study of ecstasy in a glass of Valpolicella M y blogger amica Susannah noted the August 10 holiday in Italy, La Notte di San Lorenzo, o...

Nudi venimus ~ Nudi discedimus                                              Playing Tag at Night                       Laurel Casaletto ...

from the "uchronic meanderings" department Thursday Aug 4 T he trip out of Rustic Tuscany was bumpy. After a week of cloudles...

Aug 2, 2011 D ear ______, Just to inform you that Mr. (and Mrs.) ________ did not show at the appointment. ______ __________ and ______ ___...

O ver the course of a few days, on special assignment in Italy, our travels landed us by the sea. And as anyone who follows this blog knows,...

I ’m going to divert from my normally prescient state to a case of absolute infatuation. I have finally fallen for an Italian girl. Firs...

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...