When I was seventeen  It was a very good year Y es, it has been seventeen (17!) years since I started this wine blog. I mean, who blogs an...

from the archives P eering into my wine closet, I shut the door behind me. Cool, quiet, removed from the world of traffic, frustration, ...

T he past few weeks I’ve gone to a couple of wine and spirit dinners, a b2b wine tasting and an art talk at a gallery. All of these events...

From the archives - posted 06/15/10 W hile the wine world wrestles with the issue of what makes a wine natural , I am pointing my camera ...

O ver the past 50 years I have been an avid Italy watcher. In time I became an active participant in the wine trade. In the boat, either row...

From the Archives ~ Nov. 18, 2007 I have been back in Texas less than a week. During the first half of November, I visited six regions in N...

L ike many of us who follow such things, Stanley Tucci’s Searching for Italy has grabbed our attention. Those of us who haven’t gotten on a...

I t had been a while since I was in Italy, so when the chance came to go, I grabbed the opportunity. This was not a junket, or even a free p...

from the archives M y first time visiting Piedmont was over a generation ago. At the time a winemaking revolution was in its infancy. The I...

D uring the past three years, it seems as if time has slowed down. I know that’s not scientifically possible, but still something has change...

Italy MMXXII ~ Quo Vadis? P robably not the best headline for a blog in terms of SEO. Maybe better to use “Italy 2022, and her impending ec...

"Un Miracolo!" G et ready, for here it comes! The long-awaited (and inevitable) treatise tsunami over the 2022 Italian grape harv...

N ormally, most of us find it inconceivable to come upon an Italian with a drinking problem. Wine, and to a lesser extent, beer and spirits,...

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...