From the “what would I put away?” dept. T here’s some chatter lately about the young and the old in the wine world . Not having totally ...

H uman beings fear the monster. But we also love the monster. The monster, personified by Godzilla, has an enduring magnetism for many of ...

I t is truly a miracle to consider what we humans do to the land and the resilience that land exhibits. We pour chemicals on it, stir them...

Pietro Losi's 2007 Chianti Classico Gran Selezione  W hen I was in Tuscany earlier this month, inevitably the subject of the Chianti...

 Baron Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino - Vintage Raleigh, low carbon footprint and kid gloves V initaly 2014 was a little different than the...

S ixteen years ago I was walking out of the Vinitaly wine fair with a friend and colleague. Crossing the street, we spotted a well known i...

H ere in Italy, as in everywhere on Spaceship Earth, there are the daily dramas. We all have them. For each and every one of us, our perso...

A fter an intense few days in Verona for the Concorso Enologico International , Vinitaly’s wine competition, where I sat as a judge, I mad...

As sometimes happens in the eno-blogosphere, magical connections are made. Unbeknownst to me Frank Zappa went to Sicily in 1982 to look up...

S itting at a table earlier this week with a handful of new wines to taste, I started to think “What’s new about these wines?” I really was ...

Flectere si nequeo superos, Acheronta movebo T his past week it seemed I had been trapped in a time warp. I’m sure the deaths our family...

T his week, while doing a wine dinner for a private group, the subject of where I liked to go in Italy was asked. I hesitated for a moment...

Sara Maule of Nino Negri at Caracol in Houston w/wine director Sean Beck I n the past week, while on the road with Sara Maule of Nino N...

In Memory of Mario Messina 1916-2014 W e have finally arrived. I started with eleven others, wrapped ever so carefully in soft, white t...

Born to be Delectable T here are so many wines available in today’s world that just weren’t around 10 or 20 years ago. In our flatter wo...