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Sunday, November 30, 2014

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Fruit-Bomb

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L ast month I was communicating half-way across earth to New Zealand with my editor at Wine Searcher . We were going over ideas for a feat...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

Our Selfies, Our Wines

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C an a wine cellar full of 90+ point wines make your life more meaningful? Will a 30+ year vertical tasting of an iconic wine make you hap...
Sunday, November 16, 2014

The Last Parmigiana

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L ooking out my back window, I see all the plants that were alive last week are now dead or dying. Winter has arrived. Before the brutal b...
Thursday, November 13, 2014

Pippo, We Hardly Knew Ye: In Memory of Philip di Belardino

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T he world is a little less safe for Italian wine today. Dear friend Philip di Belardino has left us .
Sunday, November 09, 2014

Annus Horribilis - Looking Back On the Toughest Harvest in Years

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I t must have been back in August. I was looking out over my garden, thinking about how wonderful everything was growing. My prize crop, t...
Monday, November 03, 2014

Opposites Attract ~ My Evening with Fettuccine Bolognese, Sous Vide Steak and Mittelmosel Riesling

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S illy rules. Someone makes up something about which wine with which food and over time it becomes Gospel. Last night I was at a dinner,...
Friday, October 31, 2014

A Serene Patch of Merlot in a Noisy World of Pinot Noir

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H is is a world very few of us get to enter. Yet the Count lives, some would say he thrives, in his world. I say it this way not to dispar...
Sunday, October 26, 2014

When Wine Isn’t Enough

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W e all have things that propel us forward. For some it is money, power or fame. Even in our little rarefied world of wine, we all have thos...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Why older men prefer higher alcohol wines and younger women

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O ver lunch, I was talking with an older friend. He’s a fan of California wine, really loves Pinot Noir. He’s not a beginner, heck he pull...
Sunday, October 19, 2014

The “New” New Yorkers and the “New” Californians ~ Leaving Jurassic Park for the Aquarian Era

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L iving in flyover country does have its benefits. You can get to either coast in a matter of hours. A recent weekend in San Francisco, I ...
Thursday, October 16, 2014

High Cotton Uber-Dining in Gotham City

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P osting from the road. In NY, the rain followed me from flyover country. Fortunately that wasn’t the only wet thing in my path.
Sunday, October 12, 2014

10 of my favorite off-the-beaten-path places to eat in Italy

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I n preparation for an interview, I was looking up places I have really enjoyed eating in Italy. Many of these places don’t even have a we...
Thursday, October 09, 2014

Ancient Italy and the New California ~ An Auspicious Convergence

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I had some unused vacation time and thought it might be a good idea to head out to California and “do” a wine dinner or two. I’m writing ...
Friday, October 03, 2014

Sicilian White Wines ~ Feeding the #HeatWave in the Cities by the Bay

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Welcome to the New California I f you had asked me, so very long ago, when I was a student in the Bay Area, trying to figure out what th...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

On the Nature of Being Sicilian in the Wine Business

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L est you think this will be the obligatory paean to all things Sicilian, after these last days spent on the island, many things are simme...