I t’s 4:30 in the morning and I’m awake. Done with sleep. My rattled skeleton is still trying to pull itself together. Coughing is painful...

E very day during this last trip to Sicily there were wines to be tasted. Fortunately most of the wines were tasted with food, although th...

Gioacchino Campanella ~ Buon “quarumaru” - photo by Manuela Laiacona T his last trip, first through France and then Italy, was one of t...

T he drive from Etna to Chiaramonte Gulfi was one for the books. After saying goodbye to Salvo Foti and his family I headed out. He had re...

I was running late to the town of Passopisciaro on Sunday. Somewhere between Palermo and Catania when I tried to get onto the highway, th...

H ow many times have I opened a bottle of wine from this estate in the last 25 years, never knowing this place? How often has a newer, bri...

Parental Advisory: Some of these images might make you hungry We're far from the dog days of summer but that was no consolation for...

Il Genio di Palermo I f you are reading this then you know I made it to Sicily from France . From the dark, rainy cold of Bordeaux to the...

S canning the Twitterverse this week I ran across this tweet: ‏@jamescwilmore “Among opinions I've heard: #vinexpo now just for PR an...

I'm in transit this weekend, heading over to Vinexpo in Bordeaux and then Sicily to visit winemakers. Not sure if there will be WiFi a...

Letters from the void* D ear Italian Wine Guy, "I recently visited a long-established Italian place in my town. The owners are goo...

 A fantastic blogger/judge A dmittedly, not all roads lead to Rome. But eventually they lead to something Italian, at least in my case. ...

R ecently I was in the market for a car. Somehow when I was on the internet, they’d know that I was looking for a car (cookies) and so I w...

O n this last trip to Italy I spent a week in the Conegliano/Valdobbiadene area , where the Prosecco Superiore DOCG comes from. Over a per...

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...