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Sunday, October 25, 2015

New York – The Center of the Wine World – for Some

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I’ ve been to New York three times in as many weeks. They’re getting to know me by name at Aldo Sohm Wine Bar. Some folks in Texas have e...
Sunday, October 18, 2015

Sixteen little eggplants that made a grown man cry

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from the "tears of happiness" dept. Alfonso and Rafael in Assisi - October 1977 G etting to a weekend where there are no obl...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015

Youth - Not Wasted on the Young - Not This Time

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I t’s never easy to stare into the barrel of time. That’s a showdown that time always wins. We may make it for 60, 80, even 100 years, but...
Sunday, October 04, 2015

Five Italian wines every 29 year-old should own

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T his past week I was doing wine service at a wine dinner with a younger salesperson. I poured a glass of wine, the 2011 Felsina Chianti C...
Sunday, September 27, 2015

The Cannubi Conundrum ~ If 15 was 30

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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...
Sunday, September 20, 2015

Wine – made by dead people – for people not yet born

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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...
Sunday, September 13, 2015

"Hare Today - Gone to Merlot" or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Shelf-Talkers

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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...
Sunday, September 06, 2015

“I just want wines reviewed by Parker”

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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...
Sunday, August 30, 2015

A summer night in a backwater berth in Ohio where dining in America was transformed

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T he view from the Lagoons at Vermilion, Ohio is a bit intimidating. Sheltered from Lake Eyrie, this bedroom community of Cleveland is one...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

The End of Summer Vacation ~ The Beginning of Autumn Harvest

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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...
Sunday, August 16, 2015

A World Beyond Wine Blogging ~ Musings on a Ferragosto Evening

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(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...
Sunday, August 09, 2015

TEXSOM through the ages

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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...
Sunday, August 02, 2015

Italy and their Wine Debt to France

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Photograph by Pierre Jahan/Archives des museés nationaux F or as long as I can remember there have been oblique encounters between Italo...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

Sardegna and wine - a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma

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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...
Sunday, July 19, 2015

Hidden Calabria and the dawn of a new day

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