I t seems, more and more lately, that aging folks just can’t step away from the dais. Whether it is confined to the wine and spirits trade (...

W ine, associated with appreciation and enjoyment and part of a cultural and culinary movement that was defined by the freewheeling social a...

T emporarily shut in by the arrival of snow (and winter), I was remanded to a nostalgic dream space that has been annexed by an external cal...

A young wine friend texted me a photo of a bottle he had in his presence, a 2013 Domaine Leflaive Puligny-Montrachet 1er Cru Les Pucelles. ...

T his week I cleared out the RSS feeds for wine writing links. Since I’m not following the wine news anymore, and not part of the wine news-...

A t long last, the red wine known as Montepulciano d’Abruzzo is having its day in the sun, basking in the glory from the newly anointed acol...

Photo by Louis Cevola I n my life, there have been those occasions when a seemingly odd wine and food combination made perfect sense. Far fr...

A fter Thanksgiving I started a project: reducing, eliminating, paring down and finely tuning my wine collection. After 40+ years of amassin...

W ell here we are December 1 st ! Wow, what a year it’s been. For me, it started off with surgery and a knee replacement. And then, like a s...

“A re you still doing your wine blog?” I cannot tell you how many times I’ve heard that lately. Usually followed by “For some reason, I have...

F riday would have been my dad’s 98th 109th birthday. How the world has changed since he left us in 1985. I was thinking about that as I ...

“Y ou’ve got it all wrong, Alfonso,” a young influencer tells me. “You have to get yourself in front of the camera, show your face, strut yo...

Imagining cultural difference that sheds light on the limitations of one’s own culture. R iding on a bus, from Catania to Palermo, my...

I t happened, after tasting over one hundred wines in a three-hour period, that the vinous impact of Etna became overwhelming. But not befor...

O ne of the advantages of having Sicilian blood and being raised in California in the latter half of the 20 th century is the uncanny capac...