I ’m sitting in a full capacity plane, with the passenger in front of me as fully reclined as he can be. I have turned the air vent on full ...

A s I dig deeper into the psyche and soul of what makes Italian wine tick, I keep running into this wall. The more the wines of Italy evol...

F or the past several years I have taken a vacation in Canada. During these times I have found the laws up there pertaining to wine and al...

J anuary is traditionally a time I go to New York. The holidays are over, the year has been put to bed and then it is time to meet with su...

J ust when you thought Montalcino was settled down, they go and show everyone that this is the dysfunctional wine center of the earth. Fro...

Se campu e non peru non vojgghiu u vidu jcchiu' festa du celu. © 1967, Avco Embassy Pictures Corp W e all want it, don’t we? It ...

From the “Om mani padme om-erta” dept. T he single most asked question I get, on a regular basis, is still “How do I figure out Italian ...

T here exists in all of us, a certain wiring that whatever stage we are at, we seem to think the decisions we make are the best we have ev...

S ome things are just too wonderful for words. Friends and colleagues, Giulo Galli and his wife Stacey, celebrated the fourth birthday of ...

“What happened in Montalcino earlier this month was horrendous, but as bad as it was, it paled in comparison to what has been going on in...

O dd, that on the 7th birthday of this blog I would be writing about death. What started out as a simple little blog has almost taken over ...

I don’t know why folks hate fruitcake so much. Guess they never had one made with love. My mom turned 98 in May and this year she sent me...

From the "chefs can't count" dept. W hen Christmas rolls into town, inevitably, among Italian-Americans, there is talk o...

I t all started when I was tasting wine with a friend, Damon Ornowski, who is a master sommelier. We were taking apart some wine and I menti...

T hese wines can be found fairly easily and usually for under $10 – not usually what I blog about, but knowing there are folks looking for...