"An organism that is too greedy and takes too much without giving anything in return destroys what it needs for life and dies out."...

T he world of wine, for those who follow it, can appear to be unpredictable and chaotic, an organized ferment of a sort. In the world of hor...

I was in my local Italian store yesterday, picking up a few things for the weekend. On the way, there was a light dusting of snow. The bris...

I t would be love at first sight. Deliciously dry with a keenness. It wouldn’t take itself too seriously. Vivacious and often mysterious. Ev...

W ell, here we are, another new year. Another new variant in the coronavirus. And with the new year, the wine trade in Italy and America is ...

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...