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Sunday, October 25, 2020

The man who visited every winery in Italy

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I n Italy, there is a most amazing fellow. He is 93 years old, and from the age of 18, his sole goal and activity has been to visit every ...
Thursday, October 22, 2020

We Asked 13 Winos: What Will You Be Drinking on Election Night?

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A playful spoof on a popular post and series , meant only for fun T his is, without a doubt, going to be one of the most important and...
Sunday, October 18, 2020

Where my father's footsteps end

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I n my dotage, I’ve become a bit of a numbers guy. How many bottles of wine in my cellar? What time remains of summer? Days left until the e...
Sunday, October 11, 2020

Dino Illuminati: A Remarkable 90 Years in the History of Italian Wine

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(photo, courtesy of the Illuminati winery) T his whole cycle of life thing here on earth, it’s a peculiar one. It goes slow, then it speed...
Sunday, October 04, 2020

Palate Pressure: Which Wine Will Suffice?

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L ately, I’ve been creating spreadsheets. Lists of things I’ve done or collected. Like food in the freezer. Trips to Italy. Master photo-f...
Sunday, September 27, 2020

A Passage from the Dead Tree Scrolls

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T here’s a wine article sitting on my desktop that is going on four months overdue. It’s almost finished, just needs a little editing. It ...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

I waited for you at the train station, but you never showed up. So, I guess I’ll go to Tuscany without you.

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I t was a long shot, for sure. We had casually talked about meeting in Rome and taking the train to Tuscany. It was over a couple of bottles...
Sunday, September 13, 2020

A letter, found in an abandoned home, next to a stream of unconscious and constant agitation

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[Editor's note: this letter was unsigned inside an envelope on the desk of the empty home. It could be the letter was written by the own...
Sunday, September 06, 2020

Dismantling the First Mountain

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T he life of a career. It’s a curious ascent. One spends so much energy in getting to the top of the mountain. To be the best. Number one....
Sunday, August 30, 2020

Everyone’s gone to the moon (or “We’re here and they’re not”)

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A s we beat the month of August, once more, to death, September howls like a newborn that was cast away into a dumpster. No one hears her...
Sunday, August 23, 2020

Italy, a beacon for continuity in the realm of magical thinking

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Y esterday a young friend called me from Italy. Not just anywhere in Italy, but one of my favorite places in Italy – San Benedetto del Tro...
Sunday, August 16, 2020

A most unusual Ferragosto

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E ver since I have been decamping to Italy, almost 50 years now, the middle of August (Ferragosto) signaled a time to recharge, rest, play...
Thursday, August 13, 2020

#TBT - Master Class in Indigenous Wines ~ As Taught by a Donkey, a Rooster and the Spirit of Place

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#TBT - from the archives T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with c...
Sunday, August 09, 2020

Taking one's place along the river

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“All we are not stares back at what we are.” - W.H. Auden W hat are we looking for? Whether it is in a vineyard or a desert? In a lover ...
Sunday, August 02, 2020

The valley between the mountains

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" Gone to look for America " T he assistant at the hotel reception desk in Farmington was Navaho. He bore familiar marks of hi...