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Sunday, August 09, 2015
TEXSOM through the ages
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T EXSOM and On the Wine Trail in Italy have something in common - we both started about the same time - and hopefully those who noticed s...
Sunday, August 02, 2015
Italy and their Wine Debt to France
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Photograph by Pierre Jahan/Archives des museés nationaux F or as long as I can remember there have been oblique encounters between Italo...
Sunday, July 26, 2015
Sardegna and wine - a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
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B y chance, I’m sitting in a restaurant and nearby me is a table of four. Urban dwellers, well-traveled, by the looks of their garb and li...
Sunday, July 19, 2015
Hidden Calabria and the dawn of a new day
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F eral, untouched, wild, unknown – Calabria is a wine frontier. Long passed over by wine connoisseurs in favor of Piedmont and Tuscany, Ca...
Sunday, July 12, 2015
The California Drought Report: Déjà vu and other ramblings while driving on the Silverado Trail at midnight.
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I t was déjà vu. The tinderbox conditions we were sitting in must have made it seem like it. It was an early summer night, just like befor...
Sunday, July 05, 2015
A little bit of Americana for our friends in Italy
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A pictorial journey through West Texas on July 4th weekend T hree weeks ago, I was sitting in a basement in Bari judging Italian wine ma...
Sunday, June 28, 2015
Lucania ~ As I See It
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From the Radici del Sud notebook F orget anything you know about Basilicata and Southern Italy. Disregard anyone telling you this is the...
Sunday, June 21, 2015
Radici del Sud ~ An Emotional Pilgrimage to One’s Origins
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One soul's radical search for the ideal on an imbalanced planet Bucita, Calabria ~ 1977 Do you have a lifelong quest? What about l...
Sunday, June 14, 2015
Master Class in Indigenous Wines ~ As Taught by a Donkey, a Rooster and the Spirit of Place
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T here are aspects to life that don’t travel so well on the road. One of them is the lack of interaction with creatures other than humans. M...
Sunday, June 07, 2015
What the World Needs Now is Passerina, Sweet #Passerina
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R ome, if anything, is a mirror of all that is good and bad in the world. From my first trip here, in 1971, and with all the times I have ...
Sunday, May 31, 2015
The Death of a Loved One
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From the "not quite back on the wine trail, yet" dept. I n a world where there are so many tragic events ̶ from the father ...
Sunday, May 24, 2015
On turning 100 +1: How many times do you get to say this and it really happens?
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Y ou hear it all the time at the Italian table. Someone has a birthday and everyone picks up a glass of wine to toast them. Someone else s...
Sunday, May 17, 2015
“All Italian White Wines Taste Alike”
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I ’m sitting at a table, in a restaurant, with a seminal figure in white wine. The beverage director comes up to us to say hello. A few p...
Friday, May 15, 2015
Counter-Lust in Austin: A Seductive New Dining Spot in Texas
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No Tables. No Servers. No Tipping. L et’s see, where have I been? Monday, it was in San Francisco. Tuesday, back in Dallas. Wednesday? H...
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Chianti for the Commoner
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“W hen will you talk about it?” My friend was pouring me a Sangiovese, in purezza, leaning in. “You and I discussed it over a year ago. Is...
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