L ately, on the blog and IRL I’ve been opening up elderly bottles from the wine closet. Part of that stems from an analysis I did of the wi...

I talian culture is a timeless and ongoing revolution. Wine has been swept up in that benevolent maelstrom. Thus, it seems like a good time ...

“When, and under what emotional pressure, does a memory shift from being a reliable account of something to a story that we tell ourselves a...

W hen I graduated from college I moved back to the town where I was born, Altadena, California. Unbeknownst to me, one of my neighbors was a...

revised from the archives ...    I remember that sinuous ceramic floor, on top of the building on Via Roma. Of all things, why that floo...

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 ...