N ow that I’ve scaled down my activities in the wine trade, I spend more time shopping for groceries, including the occasional bottle of w...

A fter a holiday season which bordered on indulgent, and passing through the time of the winter solstice, breezing right on into the new y...

L et’s take a little skin trip. Step outside of your little world, just for a few minutes. Let’s go to Italy. “Ahh,” you say, “Been ther...

“Nothing uses up alcohol faster than political argument.” - Robert A. Heinlein A fter reading a handful of pieces on the proposed 100% ...

T his year marks 14 years on the wine trail in Italy. 2019 was also the year I transitioned from the hectic wine trade to a more tranquil...

C hances are, you are already offline, having already sent out your generic holiday greetings, are not checking your email, and are enscon...

Roberto Bava (L), one of Italy's great wine story tellers, with his daughter Francesca at Vinitaly I t seems like I’ve written about...

“Italian investment of time and resources in importing wine to China will ultimately turn out to be a big mistake. The Chinese will eventua...

A ltamont was dubbed “the end of the ‘60’s,” but for some of us it was simply childhood’s end. For this child of the 60’s it was a time when...

[ Imagine a scenario where Italian wine exporters, winemakers and their agents make their twice (or thrice) yearly pilgrimage to China in s...

[Stardate -303142.8] “I t was bound to happen, eventually,” he said to himself. “After all, having done more than 600 wine dinners, wh...

♫ There's something happening here, what it is ain't exactly clear ♫ I t really seems, to this fool on the hill, that the route...

Alice Paillard and Victor Coulon W hen one looks back at a career and all the people and occurrences in the span of the last 40 or so ye...

O ver the length of my career in the fine wine distribution channel, I encountered a few wine buyers that “took the cake,” and I mean that...

Tornadoes, Fires and Lynchings... The path of destruction from the Dallas tornado on October 19, 2019 E verything seems to be moving s...