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Sunday, February 26, 2023

If buying wine were like buying an airplane ticket

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O ver the past week or so, I’ve been ensnared in the rabbit hole known as buying an airplane ticket. It has been awhile since I last flew, n...
Sunday, February 19, 2023

Dino Illuminati – Once in a Lifetime

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A little boy, nine years old, raised by his grandfather after losing his mother at a young age, is walking along the Tronto river, picking ...
Sunday, February 12, 2023

The Perfect Italian

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From the archives ... I was sitting at the bar of a restaurant, don’t remember where. It could have been Columbus, Ohio or St. Louis, Misso...
Sunday, February 05, 2023

The Valuable and Unanticipated Lessons Ballet Taught Me About Wine

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Ballet troupe performing at San Francisco's Cathedral of St. Mary T his past week, when the outside world was covered in ice, and we wer...
Sunday, January 29, 2023

[Whereabouts = Abruzzo] [Topic = Montepulciano] [Endeavor = A Meditation]

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W here is it in Italy that really grabs you by the heart and flings you around, as if you were dancing and loving and young forever and all ...
Sunday, January 22, 2023

The Master Class, the Masterpiece & the Porn Cycle – A Consideration

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W ell, the default world is back upon us. Everything is opening back up. And the merrymakers are back at it. That’s right folks, we’re going...
Sunday, January 15, 2023

Italian Mountain Wines, Friendship and a Good Night’s Sleep

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W hy most of you came here was to find out about Italian wine. And, over the years, I’ve written a lot about that. I’m not stopping, wine is...
Sunday, January 08, 2023

MMXXIII – An Italian quandary – delving into Italy’s past (and present) and looking into the possibility that Italian cultural appropriation, in food and wine, has occurred - and what to think (or do) about it.

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  cul·tur·al ap·pro·pri·a·tion    the unacknowledged or inappropriate adoption of the customs, practices, ideas, etc. of one people or ...
Wednesday, December 28, 2022

On the Wine Trail in Italy's Lucky Number "17"

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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...
Sunday, December 18, 2022

“What do you want from me?” – Conversations with an old friend in a wine cellar

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from the archives P eering into my wine closet, I shut the door behind me. Cool, quiet, removed from the world of traffic, frustration, ...
Sunday, December 11, 2022

The Inexorable Fiasco of Trying to Turn Back the Clocks to 2019

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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...
Sunday, December 04, 2022

No Time for La Bella Figura

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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 ...
Sunday, November 27, 2022

The Big One is Coming! Hurricane, Cyclone and Typhoon Season in Italy

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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...
Sunday, November 20, 2022

There Are No Sick Bees Here

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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...
Sunday, November 13, 2022

Stanley Tucci, I really, really hate you!

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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...