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Thursday, May 28, 2009
A Rosé for Any Reason
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As these words appear on the page, outside my window the sky has its own idea about what a rosé is. Of course, in the early morning the idea...
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Interview with an Italian Sommelier
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By Beatrice Russo I got a call from IWG, he was heading out, could I come over and watch his house and his tomato plants? $100 a day to loo...
Thursday, May 21, 2009
Zen and the Art of Montalcino Maintenance
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I’m in Austin this week and enjoying the company of people who are really interested in wine, even Italian wine. Business here seems to be r...
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Capote, Mondavi and Vaynerchuk
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The idea of the brand, in the wine business, in American culture, has become so pervasive that now we are all being exhorted to build our ow...
Friday, May 15, 2009
Some Pound the Pavement ~ Some Twitter it Away
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I had left a call and an e-mail for my friend. It had been 4 months since he started his import-distribution business in NY and I was wonde...
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Remembering Abruzzo
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There isn’t a day that goes by when I don’t think of Abruzzo from my first visit there in the early 1980’s, when they adopted me as one of t...
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Firch Pilin’, Recyclin’ & Twitterin’
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There’s an old East Texas term called "firch-piling" that I learned about from an Oregon magazine many moons ago. The magazine, ca...
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Vonnegut, St. Margherita and Parker
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The wine business is on the move. There has been a fundamental shift. Depending on who one talks to, it is either so small as to be barely n...
Thursday, May 07, 2009
Condimentia
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I went to a Modern Mexican restaurant the other day. Looking at the wine list, eight wines, and two of them were Cal-Itals, an Arneis and a...
Sunday, May 03, 2009
Nature and the Hand of Man
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“The vine and humankind have walked the same path together for thousands of years.” This quote, remembered from some ancient text, sets our ...
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