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Wednesday, December 28, 2016

11 Years Wine Blogging - On the Wine Trail in Italy – Quo Vadis?

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W hat started out as a journal, a web-log as we called it at the time, has become a journey, now expanding into its second decade. The ide...
Sunday, December 18, 2016

The American Dreamer - From Palermo in 1911 to the United States in 2016

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O n a Barbarossa class ocean liner , a young man, barely a teenager in 1911, makes it all the way to Ellis Island, by himself. On a ship f...
Sunday, December 11, 2016

The Top 10 Commandments of Italian Wine

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W ith the holiday season fast approaching, and with hallowed respect for Italian wine, let’s take a moment and review the 10 Commandments ...
Sunday, December 04, 2016

Bruno Giacosa Retrospective - A Life in Wine

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Bruna (L) and Bruno (R) Giacosa, the oracle of Neive, in 2004 B runo Giacosa has spent a lifetime making great wine. Like the fog that ...
Sunday, November 27, 2016

Life on Mt. Etna - After the Gadabouts Are Gone

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I t’s wet and foggy. And some of us are scared. The long days are now a thing of memory. We are steeped in darkness. And all the while the...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Trump's America Beckons: A Challenge for Italian Wine in the Age of Disruption

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I n two weeks, on December 4, 2016, Italians will vote on a referendum to change their constitution. If electors vote to approve the bill...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Fanfare for the (un)Common Somm(elier)

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Brian Huynh of Gemma in Dallas - photo by Brad Murano O ver the past week, once again in Texas, in restaurants, a wine list was thrust i...
Sunday, November 06, 2016

The First 40 Years of the Golden Age in Wine

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T his past week, I happened to come across a copy of the Wine Spectator. I’m an online subscriber, so I don’t often see the print version....
Thursday, November 03, 2016

Beyond the Aurelian Walls - Ex Archium

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From the Archives - Wednesday, November 24, 2010 S o you’ve had your Roman holiday. Seen the sights. Taken in the Vatican Museum, the Bath...
Sunday, October 30, 2016

Safe-cracking a memory vault in search of the unicorn wine

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"Able was I ere I saw Etna" Memory is an odd bedfellow. Even without the vicissitude of time or trauma it can be a transitory ...
Thursday, October 27, 2016

"Learning the Joyful Truths" - How wine elders can help today's young wine lovers - Ex Archium

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From the Archives - Wednesday February 12, 2104 "I'd suggest that many young wine drinkers do not have access to the great ben...
Sunday, October 23, 2016

What is More Important to Winelovers? The News? Or the Story?

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I n a recent conversation with Elaine “ Hawk Wakawaka ” Brown - who started out in the world of wine as an artist and blogger and rocketed...
Thursday, October 20, 2016

“We have become accustomed to constant change and instant boredom.” - Ex Archium

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From the Archives Thursday, June 26, 2014 "T he business of wine buying is being handed over to a bunch of fireflies and their life...
Sunday, October 16, 2016

The Endangered Wine List in the New Millennium

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♫ Old man take a look at my life I'm a lot like you ♫ T here’s so much I want to say about what I have observed in the marketplace ...
Sunday, October 09, 2016

The staggering weight of a 1000 year old family tree in Chianti

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I n a world in which there are so many more pressing issues, the fate and the future of Chianti is not even in the top 100. It’s in a quie...