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Sunday, July 28, 2024
What Is Your Cause?
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I t seems like everywhere you turn these days, someone is prosecuting their case for something that they deem purpose driven. We’re shouted ...
Sunday, July 21, 2024
A Journey Through the Early White Wines of Abruzzo ~ Or, Self-Investing in Your Path to Mastery
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R ecently I had a long conversation with a young wine professional. Currently they’re sommeliering in a very exclusive hotel which has a res...
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Able Was I Ere I Saw Elba Rosso
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N ot long ago, an erstwhile colleague recounted a story they had while making an Italian wine presentation. The account was a tony Italian-s...
Sunday, July 07, 2024
Taking a ride on the EU’s dime – a field guide to wine “press junkets” in the 2020’s
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A lthough we’ve been told we’re in a post-Covid world now, we still might be suffering from the hangover that almost three years of isolatio...
Sunday, June 30, 2024
Learning to Trust Italian White Wines
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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...
Sunday, June 23, 2024
The Guy Buys the Parrot
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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 ...
Sunday, June 16, 2024
Affogato and Averna with a Sicilian Surrealist
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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 ...
Sunday, June 09, 2024
Fettuccine and Forastera with a Sicilian Surrealist
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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’...
Sunday, June 02, 2024
Caffè and Cannoli with a Sicilian Surrealist
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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...
Sunday, May 26, 2024
The Duty of Hospitality (is not just expected of the Host)
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From the archives: Seeing as summertime is approaching and holiday visits to Italy will increase, along with requests to visit wineries, jus...
Sunday, May 19, 2024
Engendering Madness - What Price for an Authentic Italian Meal?
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Seafood with Cheese - Authentic or the Ultimate Culinary Transgression? O ver the past few days, I’ve been chatting with a foodie friend w...
Sunday, May 12, 2024
Why “Italian” restaurants in America still don’t get Italian wine - Pt. II
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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...
Sunday, May 05, 2024
Why “Italian” restaurants in America still don’t get Italian wine - Pt. I *
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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...
Sunday, April 28, 2024
“Italian wine is an ocean of storms!”
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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...
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Vinitaly 2024 – What went down (and what’s going up)
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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...
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