T here are all kinds of people one encounters on the wine trail, but once in a while one comes upon one of the gentle souls. Arthur Levine w...

I f there is one person I could sit down and share a bottle of Italian wine with and talk to for an afternoon, Martin Scorsese has to be at ...

1) Thank you for the wonderful variety of your sparkling wines, especially the ones from Lombardia, Trentino and the Veneto. Franciacorta...

T hanksgiving 1976. My son had just been born, we were living in Altadena and I was working in Pasadena at a restaurant known as The Chronic...

W e’ve all read it many times over. The obit said “Shirley died after a courageous battle with ovarian cancer.” Of course, Shirley isn’t any...

W ith news of Berlusconi finally stepping down, I can now look towards the wine trail of the future in Italy. I am sure all manner of reform...

W hat a week for no one to care. Not that this is the reason. No, it’s more complicated than that. Looking back in the mirror, so much easie...

T his all started in 2005. Roberto Bava was in town and for some reason we were hanging out. I’m not really sure how we met, but I liked tha...

R ecently I was perusing Doctor Wine’s website. Dr. Wine , aka Daniele Cernilli, had to settle for the English moniker ( Dr. Vino having be...

"They say that life itself is really just the dead on vacation." - Tom Waits O ver the years my ideas about wines have changed a...

~ True Story ~ T his time last year, I was traveling with a group in Italy. We were one day away from being finished and were in Grosseto ...

Two-stepping across Texas with Marco Bacci Marco Bacci with Damian Mandola near Austin, Texas H ow does one top a week of Italian wine...

From the "nothing to kill or die for" dept. L et’s take a imaginary scenario – trade between Italy and the USA is halted for ec...

T his week has been absolutely beautiful in New York City. Autumn is in full swing, with cooler weather, gusts of cooler wind with a scatte...

From the “life’s too short to drink bad wine or eat bad cheese” dept. A nyone who follows this blog for that last few years probably have ...