R ecently I was, what else, talking wine with a friend. Sicily came up (we were sipping on a Grillo) and the notion of just how far Sicilian...

H ow many times do you read something, hear something, talk to someone, and the subject comes around to passion. I'm not talking about s...

I don't know if this is a redundant type of notion, but once again I am thinking about wine, wine tasting, the wine tasting experience ...

Photo ©Tom Hyland 2026   T om Hyland has spent the better part of five decades chasing Italian wine, and approaching 100 trips into the coun...

Rocco, as I found him on July 20th  J uly came and went. My month, and the month for so many people I know and love. I look forward to July ...

T here is another story I really want to tell , but this one comes first. Last week I had a few fellows over for a birthday meal — they were...

...my 6 bits worth T here is something about a birthday that both excites and terrorizes me. Of course, the excitement comes from an early...

(homage to Gianni Di Venanzo) T erry Theise has a new piece up wrangling for the defense of "fine wine" as a category. His method...

T here's a press release sitting in my inbox announcing that the Amerigo Vespucci — Italy's training ship, the so-called most beaut...

O f late, wine has been coursing through my thoughts. Not the alcohol — that's not what this is about. No — it's what wine did to my...

from the archives Great-Grandfather Assuntino Luigi Cevola in Palermo - 1890's I never knew my Great-Grandfather, Assuntino, but I met...

In continuation from here ...     A fter the dinner Giorgio’s wife made for us, we sat around in his drawing room sipping on Cynar. It was A...

S ince migrating away from the wine trade, I have been able to devote more time to a long-time love of mine, photography. Of late, I have pa...

I' m walking around a wine shop. Filled with wines from all over the world. The place is abuzz with sales reps and suppliers waiting to ...

 from the archives... On Italy, and what it does to a person March 2011 · Italy: Without a Doubt "When it all gets to be a little to...