After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Fo...

R eading about wine from the pros can be a pricey proposition. If you are in the trade or a serious amateur/collector, here are a dozen on...

“I ’m a little upset with you over that blog post you wrote about Prosecco .” That was my introduction to Primo Franco, an iconic producer...

It's that time of the year - The Wine Blog Awards have announced their nominations . On the Wine Trail in Italy has been nominated...

Crazy weather day here in Italy in a Cartizze vineyard in the Veneto. I got caught in a hailstorm and torrential rain. Nothing like w...

“H ave you ever been to ‘osteria senza oste’ in Valdobbiadene?” my friend Paolo asked me by email last month. I didn’t have any idea what ...

E ver since we touched down, this recent trip on the wine trail in Italy has been non-stop tasting and traveling. From three days in Piedm...

W e were walking around Neive, looking for a bite to eat. One of our colleagues, Michele, started talking to this forlorn looking fellow. ...

O ne of the takeaways from this week in New York was the admission by a surprising number of industry folk and journalists I met with who ...

Deuteronomy 34:1 E xcuse me for this diversion- I’ve been in New York all week for meetings and importer tastings. This seems to be wine...

M aybe it was the way he raised the glass when he toasted the group at our gathering. Perhaps it was the conversation we had about my next...

F riends of mine in Austin have a restaurant, called Trento . They asked me to set some of their friends up in the Italian town of Trento ...

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...

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...

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...