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Thursday, March 28, 2013

For the Love of Barbera

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T his week on a Twitter conference, #SommChat , one of the guest speakers, John Ragan recommended wines for Spring. Barbera was one of th...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

Soldera to Parker to Galloni: Comets, Meteors and other Eclipses of 2013

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" Ruthlessly pricking our gonfalon bubble " I f I have learned one thing on Planet Earth it is that every one, all 7 billion of ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

What does one bring to a pot luck dinner when the host is a '60s folk music icon?

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Dinner with Joanie S itting at the bar of a tiny restaurant in the fashionable SoCo zone of Austin last night, two ladies were hugging t...
Sunday, March 17, 2013

Four Days in Ohio – The Woman Who Sought Salvation in Sangiovese

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W hen Natalie Oliveros was a young girl she thought she might become a nun. Her Calabrese grandmother might have liked that. But life has ...
Friday, March 15, 2013

Four Days in Ohio – The Man Who Loves Women More Than Wine

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M ichele Scamacca could have easily been invented by Italo Svevo or Alberto Moravia. Of Sicilian extract, born in Apulia and raised in Fri...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Four Days in Ohio – The Barone

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"Don't eat calamari in Columbus" O hio in the winter can be a sad and dismal place. Grey skies, flat in many areas, littered...
Sunday, March 10, 2013

Sunday is the New Monday, in Cleveland

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W hat was I thinking? Catch a 9AM flight to Cleveland on the Sunday right when Daylight Savings starts? Yup, that’s what I did. Got up at...
Thursday, March 07, 2013

Tuscany Report: Brancaia

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O ver the period of several days last week I had full-immersion of the wines from Brancaia . I have to admit I knew very little about the ...
Sunday, March 03, 2013

A White Tree, a Red Wall and a Bottle of Blu

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T here is a period between seasons when things invisible suddenly appear. In this case, for several years I pass over a bridge on my way f...
Thursday, February 28, 2013

The Perfect Italian

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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...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

Rating the Italian Natural Winemakers’ Websites

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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...
Thursday, February 21, 2013

Tasting Tuscany: Today’s Challenge for Chianti

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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...
Sunday, February 17, 2013

The last dress in the closet

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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...
Saturday, February 16, 2013

Why Galloni Matters

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T his week, when Antonio Galloni announced the launch of his independent site, www.antoniogalloni.com , it was a surprise. Many folks thou...
Thursday, February 14, 2013

The Italian Beachcomber

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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 ...