After all the jacks are in their boxes And the clowns have all gone to bed You can hear happiness staggering on down the street Fo...

A n old colleague of mine texted recently and told me about the death of a French wine producer we knew. We had gotten to know him over the ...

M y last paying gig in the wine trade was as a national ambassador for a venerable maker of Prosecco. One of the days I was out, working the...

Happy Days - Alessio in the kitchen at Jimmy's with Valeria Losi of Querciavalle S ad news here, Alessio Franceschetti passed away this ...

R ecently I returned to Italy, after an absence of four years – for me, the longest interlude in a generation. It couldn’t be helped. The...

  Shipping out for a short while. Back in a bit.  © written and photographed by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail i...

T here is a hint here, regarding future comings and goings. Needless to say, I dont have a lot of time to post right now, or for the next fe...

W ith the Italian wine world convening in Verona for another Vinitaly (the 55 th ), and as people shake off the last three years of a pande...

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...