R ecent news from abroad has it that Eataly has had a change of ownership. Investindustrial , headed up by Andrea Bonomi , has acquired 52% ...

R ecently, I popped into my local grocery store, Central Market, in Dallas. On the wall was a bottle of Château Pontet-Canet 2016 for $200.0...

W ho among us could imagine a world without wine from Italy? Well, I’m sure there are those teetotalers who have and do. And there are those...

P eople who know me, know I have this thing about spread sheets. No, I’m not a bean counter or a number cruncher. I don’t even like the word...

From the archives Bagging 'n Bragging H ow many times do we have to read about it? Yes, some folks out there get to taste some ama...

I’ ve often ventured into random wine and liquor stores across the globe. It can give one a cultural snapshot of a sort. What people sell an...

T his is going to be a bit of a ramble. But humor me. I think I’m going somewhere with this. It’s just going to take time to unpack this bag...

The following is a pirated Zoom transcript from a putative conversation between two old friends – an ancient matriarch (Maria, or, M) of a...

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...

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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...