W e’re sure to hear more about this in the coming months – it’s far from over. And there is a lot of emotion over this subject. I once hea...

T here is this reoccurring dream, one that has happened, even in waking hours, that sometimes I cannot distinguish between the two. This i...

– The Gen Z interview W hile writing a recent story for the paper, I sat at a coffee shop and scribbled. An apparition of a  person hove...

Meanderings from the streets of Palermo I’ m back in my family nerve center, if only for a few hours. It is winter, the moon solitary ab...

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...