How long does a butterfly live?   D ear reader, You’ve endured my ongoing screeds about the relevancy of wine blogs for almost as long as ...

“Per me si va nella città dolente, per me si va nell'etterno dolore, per me si va tra la perduta gente.” - Il canto terzo dell'Infer...

“All things must pass, none of life's strings can last.” – George Harrison F orwarding to the present day, where we must end this st...

“We are all born ignorant, but one must work hard to remain stupid.” ― Benjamin Franklin I could see the horizon approaching more rapidly...

"Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance." – Confucius M y boss, Brad, convinced the powers that be to let m...

“Ah, how the seeds of cockiness blossom when soiled in ignorance.”― Steve Alten, The Loch B ack from a working trip to Italy, I invited Se...

“The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don’t know anything about.” -   Wayne Dyer F or whatever reasons Segundo S...

This is a tale about a most miserable wine steward W hen Primo Sguattera first saw his son, Segundo, in the hospital, he couldn’t recogniz...

For Roger… T here are those moments that sneak up and drop a lifechanging effect on you. It might be something as simple as the change of ...

I’ ve wandered so far off the island, at this point, for those of you who are still stopping by, here goes nothing. I’m fixated on this rel...

I’ m kinda in a mood. Not the Glenn Miller kind. More of a Billie Eilish/David Byrne kinda mood. I’m played out with wine writing. Can’t rea...

From the archives "They say that life itself is really just the dead on vacation." - Tom Waits O ver the years my ideas about w...

From the archives A s I look through the wines in my closet, or study a wine collection from a deceased doctor or lawyer that the widow is...

Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. Antarctica 2021 I think it was at a Society of Wine Educators conference where I first encountere...

I t’s quite easy to consider the time we are living in is somehow unique. A world-wide health crisis, both physical and psychological. Fluid...