Hint: Eat lots of fruit T he wine and food industry can take its toll. Days of tastings followed by lunches, dinners and more tastings. ...

D ec 28, 2005, eight years ago , I started On The Wine Trail Italy. There weren't a lot of wine bloggers back then. Hell, electricity ...

I ’ m very worried. The world is getting flatter. And with that folks, in every corner are finding out about wine. And they are collecting...

R ecently I spent a day with some of the brightest mystery writers in America . Long a fan of the Judge Dee series and the Inspector Mont...

From the "What's old is new again" dept H olidays are the perfect time to bring out the wines you’ve been saving for a spe...

H ow is it classic wine regions like Bordeaux, Napa, the Mosel, are relatively easy to follow but Tuscany’s Chianti zone is still baffling...

Late in posting, due to winter storm. Y esterday in Austin for a Chianti class I was putting on for the trade. Great crowd, young trade f...

I magine if you will, the autumn of 1981, when I got my first job in the wine distribution industry. I had a young son and needed to be home...

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...