“D on’t play with your food,” our mothers and grandmothers and aunts and nuns used to tell us. That was then. America has a whole new order ...

Dallas circa 1966 (Photos by author) A s a youth living in California I often heard about Dallas. Dallas, the town where my father was b...

A t first glance, it appeared to be just an orchard of ancient olive trees. We arrived on a day when there had been a lot of rain. The soi...

E very once in a while, on the wine trail in Italy, I find a place that redefines what Italian food is for me. While there are the tried a...

R ichard Parsons is a wildly successful fellow. He’s made a lot of money, and he has risen to the top of the Wall Street summit. Forbes re...

O ver the years, Vinitaly has grown. When I first went there in 1984, there may have been 6 pavilions in use. Now there are 17. The crowds...

J ust a quick post as we run out to day 2. This is the 20th year for Vinitaly Wine Competition and this marks the first year where they h...

L ife has these funny little connections. I’m sitting is a sorry little corner of the Frankfurt airport and tweet, “With #DavosDuVin &...

L ooks like I'm heading back to Italy this week. First stop is the city of Verona, where there is a little wine judging to be done f...

W hen I left my home Monday morning it was dark and foggy. I decided to head to the airport a little earlier in case the flights were be...

I n 1980 I bought my first case of wine. It was a 1976 Johnson’s Alexander Valley Cabernet Sauvignon. The sommelier at the Italian restaur...

Milan O ctober was an especially busy time on the wine trail in Italy. Traffic was up 28% from October of 2011. Before the wine blog awa...

T he sad and abandoned tomato patch was enduring the last few warm days of the year. Tomatoes were hanging on, with little hope, as the ho...

G iorgio Soldati is a very lucky man. Famous for a white wine in red wine country, dancing to the beat of his own drum, making memorable w...

Carrozza Siciliana ~ Emozioni Tantrici O ften when visiting wineries in Italy they will have a space set aside for a museum. This past t...