From the Radici del Sud notebook F orget anything you know about Basilicata and Southern Italy. Disregard anyone telling you this is the...

One soul's radical search for the ideal on an imbalanced planet  Bucita, Calabria ~ 1977 Do you have a lifelong quest? What about l...

T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with creatures other than humans. M...

R ome, if anything, is a mirror of all that is good and bad in the world. From my first trip here, in 1971, and with all the times I have ...

From the "not quite back on the wine trail, yet" dept. I n a world where there are so many tragic events  ̶  from the father ...

Y ou hear it all the time at the Italian table. Someone has a birthday and everyone picks up a glass of wine to toast them. Someone else s...

I ’m sitting at a table, in a restaurant, with a seminal figure in white wine. The beverage director comes up to us to say hello. A few p...

No Tables. No Servers. No Tipping. L et’s see, where have I been? Monday, it was in San Francisco. Tuesday, back in Dallas. Wednesday? H...

“W hen will you talk about it?” My friend was pouring me a Sangiovese, in purezza, leaning in. “You and I discussed it over a year ago. Is...

A fter having spent most of April crisscrossing Texas in my covered wagon to teach hundreds of people about Italian wine, there were a few...

T his weekend I listened to a panel of chefs from Texas who brought national attention to Southwest cuisine. They were Robert Del Grande ,...

R udi Wiest will turn 79 this year. But as he likes to say, “I have a long ways to go to catch up with your mom. She’s going to be 101 thi...

I n no small way, we all need to thank the Perrin family (and Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie) for resuscitating the rosė wine category. Befo...

S ooner or later we encounter the mirror. As much as we try, with makeup, with dye, with dark glasses and soft focus, time ultimately wins...

R unning into Fabio Alessandria in the Piedmont Hall at Vinitaly, he called me by my name. How he remembered I cannot imagine. But in such...