Going off the grid for the holiday. Back Thursday with the By the Bottle series. written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On t...

Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life.   I initially learned about Patricia Guy from her book, Wines of Italy , which should be on...

“You may have the universe, if I may have Italy.” – Giuseppe Verdi Rome - 1971 T his year will mark 50 years since I first visited Ita...

Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. This week we’re hearing from Raffaella Guidi Federzoni in Montalcino. She is, from time to time, ...

From the archives B y chance, I’m sitting in a restaurant and nearby me is a table of four. Urban dwellers, well-traveled, by the looks of...

Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. My next participant in the By the Bottle series is Martin Sinkoff . I first met Martin in 198...

G uido Terreni is running out of time. And he knows it. Terreni, who is in his mid-50’s, left a comfortable and prestigious job as presid...

Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. I’m starting a new series, By the Bottle . It mimics the By the Book feature in the Sunday NY T...

N ow that many of us are getting back up, not quite running yet, but moving forward, some are looking at the value of things. Keeping in min...

T here are voices out there, in the ether of the internet, who are pushing the idea of the demise of the old guard. “The decider class is dy...

A fond remembrance T here are moments in life when a particular event happens, that sends ripples across the water.   Such was the moment ...

L ooking through my wine closet I came upon a couple of bottles I’d forgotten. And probably for good reason. They’re old. They’re white. And...

L ately, during this extraordinary era, I’ve been digging into ye olde wine cellar and pulling out crusty specimens that have arrived to an ...

O ptions for tasting wine in the last year have been somewhat curtailed by the events that we’ve all encountered. In-person tastings have no...

T his is going to be a mish mash of stuff, as we’re kind of in the doldrums of wine blogging . Also, I have a few things I need to do to cle...