B y chance, I’m sitting in a restaurant and nearby me is a table of four. Urban dwellers, well-traveled, by the looks of their garb and li...

F eral, untouched, wild, unknown – Calabria is a wine frontier. Long passed over by wine connoisseurs in favor of Piedmont and Tuscany, Ca...

I t was déjà vu. The tinderbox conditions we were sitting in must have made it seem like it. It was an early summer night, just like befor...

A pictorial journey through West Texas on July 4th weekend T hree weeks ago, I was sitting in a basement in Bari judging Italian wine ma...

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 ,...