“A s wine ages, sometimes it goes into this period, let’s call it a hiccup, in which it is not this robust, vibrant, hunk of a wine.” - ...

…my very own walk in the clouds T his week, many of the great palates (tongue and minds) of wine descended from their perches to land in...

Bucita, Calabria - 1977 - A Member of the Family W hen, in the course of talking about Italy and Italian wine with those around me, in th...

W hat has happened to Prosecco in America? Has it become but a mere commodity, aimed for a populist demographic, with the lowest price now...

An influencer behind the influencers T he story I am about to tell you doesn’t have anything to do with words or language. Which is odd,...

High on a hill, it calls to me What is it about a place that marks one’s soul? When a place seems more than recognizable the first time ...

Well, almost… "My favorite" - Jacopo Bacci @ Four Seasons Hotel - Hong Kong." Bordeaux − I’m [virtually] in the modern ...

from the "notes to myself" dept. We Americans spend a lot of time alone. In the car, in front of a computer, and if one is luc...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...