W hile in my local Italian store the other day, a sales rep was doing a tasting of Italian wines. He had a bevy of whites and one red. It wa...

  T here’s this old joke going around. I heard Colin Quinn tell it recently. It goes like this: This guy goes into a pet shop looking to ...

O ur time at the dinner table was over. Giorgio motioned to me and his wife that he was moving to the drawing room. His wife said she would ...

Una favola continuava I t was 7:00 PM and Giorgio’s residence was about 15 minutes away from the pensione I was staying in. But I wasn’...

una favola... M y first trip to Italy was in 1971. I was a student on summer break and spent days in Rome, wandering the streets at all hour...

From the archives: Seeing as summertime is approaching and holiday visits to Italy will increase, along with requests to visit wineries, jus...

Seafood with Cheese - Authentic or the Ultimate Culinary Transgression?   O ver the past few days, I’ve been chatting with a foodie friend w...

F orging ahead with my quixotic crusade, let’s turn to red wines. I’ll try and be a little more circumspect in my presentation. While Ital...

A classic Vitello Tonnato in a Langhe restaurant I know, I know. We’ve covered this already . But apparently some folks out there still hav...

T hat was the text I got from a colleague while they navigated the aisles and passageways of Vinitaly. Indeed, Italy and Italian wine is b...

Luca Zaia (L) President of the Veneto Region I t’s been a few days since Vinitaly 2024 ended. Here are some random thoughts about the Italia...

M y Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante was made into a TV series . We’ve been watching it here on the island. I have been struck by how man...

S ince the receding of the pandemic, the wine world has seen the starting up again of traveling shows, seminars and winemaker presentations....

From the archives .. O ver the past month, as my personal fog has lifted, there have been dreams. And in these dreams, many of them have...

W e are in the month of March – which has been, traditionally, in the wine trade, a time when winemakers and winery owners jet off and taste...