T hree weeks on the road, driving across Texas - Dallas to Houston to San Antonio to Austin to Dallas - there has been time to talk in the...

A few months ago on Antonio Galloni’s Vinous “Your Say” site, there was some lively conversation when Monica Larner showed up. She peeke...

R ecently, there has been a thread that is developing on these posts. One post, Old Wines for Young Sommeliers , looked into a world the y...

W ow! How does one answer that one in 1000 words or less? Fortunately I have been asked that question a lot more lately. A new crop of wi...

S tatus quo is a tricky thing. If you fight to get your position to dominate, someone will come up from behind and try to make their positio...

Y ou see it often in Italy. A celebration. Of pasta, of tomatoes, of zucchini flowers. Especially during harvest season, as one drives alo...

and a couple for white wine lovers too T his past trip to Italy, some of my favorite red wine makers showed me their white wines. Italia...

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...