S ometime around the late 1990’s I was working with an Italian importer and one of the owners brought up the subject of alternative red wi...

Originally posted Nov. 14, 2007 Vallee d'Aoste ~ Vigne de Torrette O ne day on the highway in Liguria, it hit me. We were driving ...

Tasting notes are a cinch. How does one tell the tale of Southern Italian wine with a single photograph?

Assisi 1977 T he wines of the natural world are something I do not take on lightly as a self-assigned subject of current interest. As ...

R egular readers of this blog have known for some time that I am retired from a working life. What many do not know, are the details of a li...

W ine as an obsession seems a bit odd to me these days. As I recede from the shores of the wine trade, the daily activities, the desires, ...

Assisi - Eremo delle Carceri (St. Francis' Hermitage) A s one might be expected to do in the later chapters of life, I’ve been clean...

C alifornia Chardonnay. An odd phrase. Round and chunky in sound, those two words. A little shushy, followed by an ay! Why not? What did ...

Dallas, Texas - 1979 - Il Sorrento Old World Italian Cuisine L et’s hop on the Wayback Machine, to 1979, on search of the state of Itali...

E veryone has their idea about what it means to be a lover of Italian wine. Some folks love to go for the rare, the old, the soaring Pegas...

O ver the summer I was motivated to produce a mini series on Native and Indigenous Italian Grapes. This is a round-up of those posts, in c...

Baby Luigi W hen I "retired" in April, I didn’t really quit working. But in the last month or so I’ve retroceded a bit more th...

U ncle Emilio’s wife, Serafina, sent Anne Marie a note. “Uncle Emilio isn’t doing so well. After his last fall in the vineyard, he just ha...

Two new wines that have recently graced the dinner table. Both made with biodynamic practices and are Vin Demeter.

A nne Marie was from a new generation of global citizens. Born in America in the late 1980’s, from parents who immigrated from Europe, her...