From the Navel-gazing Observatory on the Italian wine trail R ecently, I peered into the petite armoire of a colleague in wine who pass...

A story inspired by real-life events... W hat would you do if, all of a sudden, you couldn’t drink wine? If the forces of destiny didn’t a...

from the archives ... T hree weeks on the road, driving across Texas - Dallas to Houston to San Antonio to Austin to Dallas - there has ...

I n a lifetime quest to uncover every inch of Italy, what I have been looking for lately has been a return to something I found very early...

“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...