from the archives ... F orget anything you know about Basilicata and Southern Italy. Disregard anyone telling you this is the poorest reg...

T he other day, I listened in on an NPR TED Hour podcast about what the “ future you ” looks like. Who will you be in 5 years? In 20 years? ...

O k, here goes. I’ve been in a quandary lately. Don’t know why. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe the state of the country. Or the world. In any ev...

H ere’s the thing: Life, at any age, can be as rich or as impoverished as one can stand it to be. There, so much for my philosophy of late. ...

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...