Happy Birthday, Raffaella! A picture is worth a thousand words. In this case, 3,500. My friend and colleague, Raffaella, posted a photo ...

I’ ve just spent an afternoon looking at Nielsen wine sales reports for America. The exercise came as a response to a colleague who told m...

F or those who read books, there are numerous treatises on collecting wine. I’ve read all that I have in my little library. Some of them s...

Vision quests, spa treatments, identity crisis wines and start-up disruptors M y Italian friends are posting pictures on their Facebook, ...

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...

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

"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 ...

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