I was sitting at the bar of a restaurant, don’t remember where. It could have been Columbus, Ohio or St. Louis, Missouri. Or Yountville, Cal...

California - 1970's A fter a couple of days back in my natural medium of California, I’ve been giving some thought to the natural wi...

Wed, Feb 20 E arlier this week, I sat on a panel. We were judging at the Dallas Morning News Wine Competition. Day one was California; M...

I’ ve been living in this house of mine for longer than I have ever lived in any one place. We moved here when the family got a little big...

T his week, when Antonio Galloni announced the launch of his independent site, www.antoniogalloni.com , it was a surprise. Many folks thou...

Happy St.Thomas, St.Croix, St.John and St. Valentine's Day Work took me this week to the U.S. Virgin Islands, St. Thomas, St. Croix ...

2013 is starting out to be one of those years in which tumult is the equilibrium. I have participated in the melee in what some people ha...

From the "alta cacca chronicles" Y ou find the oddest things on You Tube. Noodling around for my next post I came across t...

I t seems that some friends in the wine business who read the first post, “Everything I know about wine I learned from Catholic school” h...

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 ...