I talian wine is a diverse sea of flavors, colors, buoyancies, styles and price points. There are thousands of grapes, and as many or more w...

L ately I’ve been pondering the words we choose, when writing and talking about wine. Notably, I have seen a burgeoning use of words like cu...

R ecently, the Italian wine producers have been hitting the road. Tre Bicchieri and Slow Wine road shows, along with an agglomeration of sma...

W ith all the hubbub over local grapes these days, one can easily go down the rabbit hole in the Italian wine journey. Even once considered ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...