T here’s this sci-fi novel about the end of the world. In it, the people of earth are trying to figure out how to get all the people on eart...

Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon – 1968 Charles Krug and 1983 Far Niente T his past week, in Texas, we've experienced with mixed results...

S ocial media has become the sound of a Band-Aid being ripped off with abandon. Last week, a friend of mine who has a wine shop in Californi...

“Sometimes the older ones, the ones that have been in there a long time, they get forgotten. They become invisible." I t had been ...

R ecently I watched an absorbing and compelling documentary about the musician, Ron Carter. A giant in the jazz world, Ron is now 86 and sti...

from the archives ... I t started last night while I was looking for a bottle of wine to go with the lasagne. I wanted something a bit ru...

from the archives .. Ed. note: Prescient this post was, in 2014. For when I next went to Sicily in 2016, I indeed was in a pretty awful c...

I t’s not every day one can expound about an American success story. Sure, there are scores of them - this country exists for attainment, at...

  As some of you have noticed and emailed me, I no longer entertain a comment section. About four months ago, I tried an experiment to tur...

J uly was an amazing month for On the Wine Trail in Italy . The readership is tremendous and the response has been marvelous for a category ...

T his week, I was re-organizing my wine collection. There were several cases of white and rosé wine that had stacked up in the utility room,...

R ecently, I stopped in to see an old friend and erstwhile client, an Italian restaurateur. We had a glass of Gavi together and caught up. H...

  I n memory of Luigi Pira and Dino Illuminati I was in the room next to my wine closet when I thought I heard the murmur of low voices. Th...

The Italy that Americans forget L ately I’ve taken to reading excerpts from people’s trips to Italy. Wine country, the cities, the fashionab...

I was taking a coffee break recently with a friend, catching up, and he remarked about some crappy restaurant service he’d recently gotten. ...