I n Italy, where the seat of the Catholic Church sits in Rome, many souls have drifted away from the sacred to the secular. But there is a...

A ngelo Gaja had this thing for Cabernet Sauvignon and Bordeaux. And so, he planted it in Piedmont in the 1970’s. Pio Boffa went to Napa V...

F rom this view on the perch, Greek wine should be winning more than it appears to be. The Greek wine importers and government agencies are ...

I n today’s hyper-rarefied clime in which the world’s wine elite bask, for most folks the access to ancient and great old wine can often s...

An unexpected, but inevitable, missive, from Last Gen (translation by devinchi’s Submarine) I t’s so odd to be writing this note to pe...

T his month, while traveling in Connecticut, I was in a little wine shop in Madison, chatting with a salesperson. She was a self-described...

I n the last two weeks, I’ve been on both sides of the northern corners of America. It must be my busy time of retirement. And it appears ...

The Flying Wallendas L ife-changing. It’s a pretty tall order. I’ve had some things that have happened that were life changing. Two year...

I t’s 4:00 AM and I’m staring at the ceiling in bed, eyes wide open. And I’m thinking about wine. Wine, wine, wine. It wasn’t supposed to be...

I t is not without the slightest tinge of envy, that I read the many people who work so hard to taste wine, write about it and share their...

I ’ve been in Italy for three weeks now. It has been more than 40 years that I have spent this much time in Italy in one, uninterrupted pe...

A million years ago, KPFK in Los Angeles aired a story about the Rolling Stone performer, Brian Jones, who found a tribe of master musici...

(Traveling now and am thinking about this subject, first posted in 2011 and which will have a follow up post.) Pan di sudore, miglior sa...

Dateline: Barolo, Italy and Ian D'Agata's 1st Indigena Symposium L et’s say you’re 25, finished with formal schooling, looking for...

O f the epiphanies I had at Vinitaly this year, one of them was over Prosecco. Watching the Prosecco phenomenon over the last 25 years ha...