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Sunday, November 26, 2017

Selling Your Italian Wine to the US Market - My 15 Minute Talk

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I’m going to take off my citizen blogger hat and don my work cap for this post. Read this as if it were a (TED) talk I would be giving to a ...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Nine Reasons to Give Thanks for Italian Wine

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I taly and Italian wine, during my professional life, has been an arduus ad solem . It has so possessed me that I fear that I am like the ...
Sunday, November 12, 2017

Basilicata - Divining the Future of Italian Wine in a Place that Time Forgot

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I f you could find a window into a world, where time hasn't moved so rapidly, where things are like they were a year, five or even 50 ...
Sunday, November 05, 2017

Assessing the Controversial/ Disastrous/Fabulous Italian Wine Harvest of 2017

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Here we are – November 5, 2017 – for the most part the Italian wine harvest is over. And while we’re months and years away from practicall...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

The Necromancer's Guide to Italian Wine

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I t all started with the Jewish prophet from Bethlehem, that turning water into wine piece of sorcery. How could we top that? After a cou...
Sunday, October 22, 2017

The 2017 Harvest in Umbria and Tuscany - Fear and "Global Weirding" - Pt.III

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"What do you get when you fall in love? A guy with a pin to burst your bubble." T here are parts of Tuscany that evade Brunell...
Sunday, October 15, 2017

America Under Fire: An Open Letter to the Italian Wine Community

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Click here NOW to donate and have your donation matched - SGWS CA Wildfire Relief Fund C aro amici e colleghi, It seems every Sunday t...
Thursday, October 12, 2017

"I have no words..." - Calling on our global wine community to support Tony and Lisa McClung's Napa Fire Rebuild fund

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Click here NOW to support Tony and Lisa McClung's Napa Fire Rebuild fund (organized by Claire Casey Brandani) The world is filled w...
Sunday, October 08, 2017

The Navelgazer’s Last Tour of Italy

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Swept away by an apoplectic American destiny in a red plane in October Nothing above me, nothing below me - So I jump off O ne more ti...
Sunday, October 01, 2017

The 2017 Harvest in Umbria and Tuscany - Fear and "Global Weirding" - Pt.II

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Chianti Classico - O Brother, Where Art Thou? W e’re all struggling to seek, explain and unfold Chianti Classico in today’s world. Not a...
Sunday, September 24, 2017

How do you solve a problem like Maremma?

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F or years, the aura of the Super Tuscan has reflected a masculine, testosterone-laden persona, depicting a “Magnificent Seven” persona. T...
Sunday, September 17, 2017

The 2017 Harvest in Umbria and Tuscany - Fear and "Global Weirding" - Pt.I

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I talian wine often arrives in a van loaded with emotion. Call me moonstruck from day one. As an observer over the years, there’s somethin...
Sunday, September 10, 2017

Thank You, Italy

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Echoes from the archives - Posted Nov 24, 2011 1) Thank you for the wonderful variety of your sparkling wines, especially the ones from L...
Sunday, September 03, 2017

As you age does your taste in wine change?

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Echoes from the archives - Posted May 20, 2012 T hat was the question I posed on a Facebook months ago. I have been thinking about it ...
Sunday, August 27, 2017

Stripped, Shocked and Surprised - Is There a Unicorn in the Cave?

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O ver the lifespan of this blog, I’ve written a post, on average, once every three days. For those who aren't familiar, they’ve develo...