T here are many more qualified to offer their thoughts on the subject, but for some reason as I was jogging I couldn’t get these ideas out o...

and other remembrances on this day...    I remember that sinuous ceramic floor, on top of the building on Via Roma. Of all things, why t...

"All this happened, more or less."  W hy are people attracted to certain things? I’ll never know. One of my most humiliating m...

T hat was the question I posed on a Facebook page two months ago. I have been thinking about it for some time now, and doing active resea...

I ’m here but I’m not really here. Sipping on all kinds of Italian wine, I have been tripping back and forth between Sicily, Umbria, ...

  I was waiting in a long, slow line on the freeway for the traffic to pass by an accident on the side of the road. As often happens...

T he picture above is of a window from a Sicilian winemaker's winery to his home. The little hole in the bottom is room enough for ...

Interpreted from recently unearthed sealed documents of possible Jesuit origin found in the Biblioteca Nazionale in Naples. I n the y...

I ’m feeling pretty good about it being May and already we are seeing the new crop of rosé wines rolling into the market. But with that jo...

“ Y our job isn’t who you are,” the little monkey voice inside the head kept chattering. Yeah, yeah, heard it all so many times before i...

T he past week has been busy as hell. I have found myself in countless restaurants in South Texas, West Texas and North Texas. That would ...

S ometimes life is a cornucopia of events. And sometimes it’s a dry well in the desert. And this week, while it is tending more towards...

I wasn’t sure how long it would take for Jacopo Bacci to fall into Texas, but as expected it took less than a week. Sure the weather has b...

Busy time out here in West Texas - just a few photos - more to come... Keep smiling - keep drinking wine - keep dancing - keep hoping. ...

A fter Vinitaly and after Bordeaux en Primeur, then it is time for Texas. One of the events I so look forward to is the Buffalo Gap Wine...