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Sunday, April 28, 2013

Italia, Quo Vadis?

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Post #1,000 T his past trip to Italy, I had the chance to wander the streets of Milan with a camera. I’d been hitting it hard at Vinitaly...
Thursday, April 25, 2013

Screaming Eagle for Breakfast

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T here once was a time when one hungered for knowledge of the great wines. If one couldn’t taste the old classics, one could always read a...
Sunday, April 21, 2013

Where was the Wine Advocate at Vinitaly?

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I woke up this morning and didn’t know where I was or what day it was. I’ve been traveling a bit lately. Fortunately I was in West Texas a...
Thursday, April 18, 2013

Italy from a different perspective

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Photos by Col. Chris Hadfield O nce I arrived back home from Italy and the Vinitaly show, I spent two days on my back in bed, exhausted ...
Sunday, April 14, 2013

Thoughts while watching a sheep being skinned in Tuscany

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W hen we arrived to the place we would be staying after Vinitaly, we first stopped at the nearest neighbor’s house. They are shepherds fr...
Friday, April 12, 2013

Vinitaly XLVII round-up (w/news about #Vinitaly2014)

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“O ne of the best Vinitaly in years” would probably be my way to say it. Along with all the hustle and confusion that this Italian wine f...
Sunday, April 07, 2013

Vinitaly XLVII Notebook: Good times with good friends in 2013

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V initaly, what can you say? Anything can happen. While it is easy to make light of some things and zoom in on other things, what it all...
Friday, April 05, 2013

Trento Report: €3 Euro Muller-Thurgau, red wine with white fish (and green asparagus) and Summa XIII

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A bad day in Italy can often be better than a good day in many other places. And a good day, well, let’s just say that’s off the charts. ...
Thursday, April 04, 2013

Vinitaly XLVII - The Super Bowl of Italian Wine

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Flashback: Vinitaly 14 - ICE president Luigi Deserti welcomes Burton Anderson, John Mariani and Lou Iacucci T his’ll be quick, as it is ...
Tuesday, April 02, 2013

Quintarelli's New Importer in the US is Great News for Italian Wine Lovers

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N o, this is not an April Fool’s joke. This is the real deal. Busily preparing myself for Vinitaly, which starts this Sunday (Saturday for...
Monday, April 01, 2013

Soldera revokes his irrevocable resignation, Parker drops his lawsuit against Galloni and the Hosemaster has an apoplectic accident

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W ow – what a week it's been in the wine world! I have to say, I never saw any of these coming – this has been a watershed week in t...
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 ...