I t has been eight years since I last reported from Etna . In 2016 I was here as a blogger, but primarily as a photographer, covering for Er...

Stepping away from the big screens for a pause. See you in two weeks. written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Tra...

W hile shopping in my little Italian grocery store, the one with an oversized selection of Italian wine (only), I happened upon one of the I...

 🎵 I got the poison, I got the remedy 🎵 A s Americans, we can dream up some pretty goofy stuff. Foodwise, we’ve got a lock on weird. Just...

L ately, when thinking about Italian wine and its place in the world, I’ve been pulling back the focus, way back, and envisioning it from a ...

W hile scores of Italians and other Europeans flock to the beaches of Italy, Spain and Greece, suntanning their bums off, America is in the ...

A s an Italian food chronicler, by virtue of working through the past few decades and witnessing many iterations of Italian-divined restaura...

T he large alcohol companies are sounding their alarms. People aren’t drinking as much as they used to. Their business is down. Their projec...

I t seems like everywhere you turn these days, someone is prosecuting their case for something that they deem purpose driven. We’re shouted ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...