Still life with glass of Lambrusco at Aldo Sohm Wine Bar A lthough harvest is in full-swing in Piedmont, the folks who sell the wines ha...

W ith autumn’s beginning, Italian winemakers are now home from the beach and the mountains, and busy working in their wineries. Gone are t...

W hile many wine lovers are trekking off to exotic lands to experience the grape harvest, I am deep into the holiday selling season. The t...

W hile in one of my favorite little Italian wine shops near my home, I ventured over to the Tuscan section to see how the owner’s Labor Da...

T he view from the Lagoons at Vermilion, Ohio is a bit intimidating. Sheltered from Lake Eyrie, this bedroom community of Cleveland is one...

I t happens like this every year. It’s been a great month at the beach. Now we must pack up our belongings, shut down the cabana and head ba...

(L-R) Louis, Alfonso, Mary & Julia Cevola - Palermo ca. 1919 I ’m stealing time right now. There’s a 2,100 word, multi-segment piece...

T EXSOM and On the Wine Trail in Italy have something in common - we both started about the same time - and hopefully those who noticed s...

Photograph by Pierre Jahan/Archives des museés nationaux F or as long as I can remember there have been oblique encounters between Italo...

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...