A s I look over the essays and posts I have written this year, I warily eye the subject matter that appears on this site. I shouldn’t be, I’...

H ow often have you opened a bottle of wine and thought that you had never tasted anything like what just came out of that bottle in your li...

T he past month I have been feverishly working on a project involving Italian wine and how better to communicate its better aspects to cons...

N ow that I am “retired” I’ve spent some time reflecting on the years I worked in the wine trade. I am glad I survived those years, for I ha...

T he image above was taken from the Instagram site of a hotel I stay at occasionally in Rome. It is their way, I suppose, to offer up a fant...

I t finally dawned on me - We all live in a yellow submarine – now I know what it means. A submarine, a bubble, a fantasy world, that’s whe...

In Memory of Hank Rossi, who left us last year... Watch out, Bin Laden, "AK-47 Rossi" is on your tail E nrico “Hank” Rossi has...

  Luciano Pavarotti and young fan at Golden Gate Park, San Francisco I n the last year, I have been consulting with my local Italian wine sh...

I t was just a simple coffee meeting with an longtime Italian wine colleague, who, last time we talked, has since gone on to their version o...

From the archives I n a world where there are so many tragic events  ̶  from the father who lost his wife and daughter when he was 30 a...

I t seems "things being coded" is all the rage these days. My preferred AI overview posits coded thusly: In the context of socia...

B y now the world knows there is a new pope and most of us have become acquainted with him, if just superficially. He, no doubt, will alter ...

T he decade we’re in started in 2020, and it was then that heightened consciousness was brought to racial injustices, and covered many aspec...

W hile rummaging through my wine stash, I came across a red from Italy and another red from Greece. We were having smoked brisket and I want...

Gran Sasso - Abruzzo F or some reason, I have been going over my wine career and the speed bumps along the road that I incurred during that ...