I n these moments, social media sites are ablaze with folks making their yearly pilgrimages to wine fairs. A few weeks ago, it was to Germ...

Image courtesy of Cantina Produttori Nebbiolo Di Carema I magine families, perched precariously on the side of a mountain, working the l...

“D o you want to know how good a winemaker in the Langhe or Monferrato is? Try their Grignolino. If it’s a good one, chances are their oth...

W hile I have, more than once, addressed the challenges of selling one’s Italian wine to America , it seems I haven’t touched enough upon ...

T here’s nothing more enjoyable and illuminating than to rediscover a wine, a grape or a region as if I’d never had an iota of exposure to...

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...