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Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Zombies and VR, supermarket bargains and wine shop $100 gems – what I’m writing, off the wine trail in Italy

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W hile this site is primarily my web log of thoughts, emotions and observations from the wine trail (mainly in Italy), since I have “retir...
Sunday, October 28, 2018

The Fate of Italian Wine in a Strange, New America

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A ll across Italy there is an army of souls standing over fermenting tanks, hoses running everywhere, with the ubiquitous sweet-sour scent...
Sunday, October 21, 2018

Tocai Friulano - For every funeral there is a second line (and a silver lining)

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From the Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes Series I t was April of 2007, in Verona. Colleague and dear friend, Andrea Fassone, call...
Sunday, October 14, 2018

The Rise of The Italian Wine Specialist in America

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An O-N-D Pep Talk F or the past four months I've felt like the mother of all road warriors, in service of Italian wine. I really tho...
Sunday, October 07, 2018

The Unbearable Lightness of Being… Fiano di Avellino

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From the Native & Indigenous Italian Grapes Series Vesuvius in Eruption by Joseph Mallord William Turner I n flyover country USA i...
Sunday, September 30, 2018

Wail Watching in the City of the Angels

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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...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

Things I’ve learned about wine and life on the road in America

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Taking a break from my latest series on native & indigenous Italian grapes . ♪ They've all come to look for America ♪ W hat c...
Sunday, September 16, 2018

The Old Fool's Guide to Erbaluce

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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...
Sunday, September 09, 2018

In praise of Trebbiano Abruzzese - a short personal history

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Dino Illuminati, me and Daniele Spinelli,- 30 years ago W ithout a doubt, the one indigenous Italian white that I have the most experien...
Sunday, September 02, 2018

A short personal history of Arneis

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A rneis is an indigenous grape variety found in Piedmont that is enjoying a wave of popularity in this moment. Many people are discovering...
Sunday, August 26, 2018

Surf, swell and tides on Verdicchio Island – Matelica, the monster wave

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I first encountered La Monacesca in the late 1980’s – My friends Eugenio Spinozzi and Sam Levitus (partners in Tricana) imported it into th...
Sunday, August 19, 2018

Ferragosto Forever

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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...
Sunday, August 12, 2018

Gone Fission...

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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 ...
Sunday, August 05, 2018

On the Road Again: What I Did On My Summer Vacation

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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. ...
Sunday, July 29, 2018

5 of the Most Important Patron Saints of Italian Wine You’ve Never Heard About

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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...