From the archives I thought we might have dodged the bullet. You know, the one whereby all the wines of the country are judged by a few? ...

I t’s been a while since we last chatted, so I figured it was time to set up the recorder and ask my favorite bottle of Italian wine how the...

I grew up in a home where most of the meals were made from scratch. We didn’t eat a lot of frozen anything, except for ice cream. And we di...

F or the past three weeks I’ve not been imbibing in alcoholic beverages, part of a seasonal cleanse, taking an active part in becoming healt...

As promised, a constructive follow-up from an earlier post, Keep On Trucklin’ – Press Junkets in the Age of Disruption. I f you are a winery...

  As Leonardo da Vinci once said, "See you on the other side."    Back after a break. Thanks for reading.   © written and photogr...

from the archives ... H e's been gone fifteen years, this son of New Orleans, father and mentor to so many of us. Al was one of the for...

R ecently, I was invited to come to Italy for a visit, all expenses paid. I politely declined for personal reasons. A few weeks later I was ...

H ow’s your week been? Here, the past week has been challenging. Family health issues, the heat, the economy, the war, the dead babies, the ...

…or, looking for a safe place to buy groceries… …or, looking for a safe place to worship… …or, looking for a safe place to go to school…...

I don’t know how it happened, but recently I was talking to an acquaintance who never knew what I did in my career. I mentioned something a...

Hey Torquemada, this is all you’ll get out of me… H ere’s what I’ve been thinking about lately. In regards to the wine trade, the wine w...

from the archives I ’m sitting at a table, in a restaurant, with a seminal figure in white wine. The beverage director comes up to us to ...

T en years ago on this blog, I was still working, and I wrote a post called An Eternity of Mondays . “Your job isn’t who you are,” the lit...

O ne of the distillations I’ve arrived to, at this late hour, is that ultimately everything is about love. And that includes any and all thi...