I t seems everywhere we turn, someone is shoving it in our face. Maybe it is part of the price we pay for this hyper-connectivity. Perhaps s...

Dallas, Texas November 22, 2013 U nlike the scene 50 years ago, when it was bright and brisk and shiny, the scene was dark, windy and col...

Frank Cornelissen's Etna Harvest 2013 wrap party in Austin Etna Nov 11 - Photo: VolcanoDiscovery.com I s wine and pizza a divine ...

Colline Teramane I f there is any one thing that can expand your world, it is simply stepping away from your familiar (and comfortable) s...

T oday would have been my dad’s 98th birthday. How the world has changed since he left us in 1985. I was thinking about that as I was driv...

T he internets are rife with social media sites where folks post great wines they just had. This is not one of them. This is a story about...

♫ I’m just average, common too I’m just like him, the same as you I’m everybody’s brother and son I ain’t different from anyone It...

T he latest note from Salvo Foti on Mt. Etna is a series of images - They pulled fruit off the old vineyard the Vignabosco (elev 1300 mt....

Grappling among the Offshoots ~ Gaglioppo and Nerello Mascalese I ’m the one who played tag with you and listened to you sing and play the...

This just in from my winemaking friend Salvo Foti . Salvo is bringing in the last of the harvest from his Etna vineyards and this is a re...

I t seems wine isn’t the only thing that is trying to get out of Italy . Her people are looking outward again. All this while less fortuna...

A fter the seemingly endless exercise of packing on a Sunday night and heading out to the airport on a Monday morning, I found myself at hom...

S ome of the characters I encounter, ones who want to sell their wine to America, have some of the darndest ideas about this market. I ge...

I remember my first time. It was summer. I was in Tuscany. Invited to dinner at the Villa San Michele in Fiesole. I drove my little car u...

And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate, With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of ...