W hether we’re talking Italy or America, it doesn’t matter. Someone has an opinion about the way one should treat a wine. I rather imagine t...

I ’ll be posting from Italy in the next week or so. Work takes me back again, this time for an educational trip with a couple of managers in...

Ron Wight and Scott Ota checking out the sexy Italian centerfold S ometimes I think I should just shuck it all and live out of my suit...

"Just Do It " Photo by Samuel Aranda  f or The New York Times W ith events in Libya seemingly coming to a conclusion, I ha...

from the "critical-schmitical" dept... A nyone who knows me a little might have figured out that I love white wine. Riesling...

A smattering of images from the epic weekend. Craig Collins, MS , reported, as Rajat Parr was leaving to catch a jet to another fabulous p...

…from the déjà vu département Serge Hochar shares a story with sommelier Jason Huerta W hen I first met Serge Hochar, he was making ...

` “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...