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Thursday, December 28, 2017

On the Wine Trail in Italy - The Terrible Teens

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Or, 12 going on 17... I n a world that pulses on a 24-hour news cycle, where we don’t remember on Thursday what happened on Monday, here...
Sunday, December 17, 2017

The Italian Wine List from a Cinematic Perspective: “I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.”

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T here’s something about a wine list that seems a lot like the “hand in the box challenge.” You never know what you’re going to find insid...
Sunday, December 10, 2017

A Long Life, As Expected?

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From the archives I was passed a message. “He’s gone.” Just like that. Too young. Too much life left in him. But that was it. The End. Li...
Sunday, December 03, 2017

The Province of Fine Wine in Today’s Disrupted World

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W riting about wine is at a turning point. If the writing is well done, it can serve to lift us out of the constant sea of disruption, of...
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...