A nother week, this time in my native place. As a native Angeleno ( and Californiano ), the circumstance of my birth was preceded by the d...

Taking a break from my latest series on native & indigenous Italian grapes . ♪ They've all come to look for America ♪ W hat c...

I nside my office there is a closet, a ramshackle affair, with whatever I haven’t yet figured out how to deal with. On the middle shelf th...

Dino Illuminati, me and Daniele Spinelli,- 30 years ago W ithout a doubt, the one indigenous Italian white that I have the most experien...

A rneis is an indigenous grape variety found in Piedmont that is enjoying a wave of popularity in this moment. Many people are discovering...

I first encountered La Monacesca in the late 1980’s – My friends Eugenio Spinozzi and Sam Levitus (partners in Tricana) imported it into th...

Onward through the fog... W hat must it be like, for everyday to be the 15th of August? To be lulled into semi-consciousness by the stea...

Going off the grid for a bit. Nothing's wrong, just need to step away from the world and dip my pole in cooler waters - the rods have ...

T he past two months have been a blur. Travel like I’ve never had. Criss-crossing the United States. Seattle. Atlanta. Austin. Kansas City. ...

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...