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Thursday, May 20, 2021
By the Bottle: Raffaella Guidi Federzoni
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Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. This week we’re hearing from Raffaella Guidi Federzoni in Montalcino. She is, from time to time, ...
Sunday, May 16, 2021
Sardegna and wine - a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma
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From the archives 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...
Thursday, May 13, 2021
By the Bottle: Martin Sinkoff
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Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. My next participant in the By the Bottle series is Martin Sinkoff . I first met Martin in 198...
Sunday, May 09, 2021
What Italian winemakers can imbibe from their Swiss watchmaking cousins
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G uido Terreni is running out of time. And he knows it. Terreni, who is in his mid-50’s, left a comfortable and prestigious job as presid...
Thursday, May 06, 2021
By the Bottle: #1 - Ole Udsen - a new series about winelovers and their tastes (and loves) in wine.
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Wine lovers on wine and the vinous life. I’m starting a new series, By the Bottle . It mimics the By the Book feature in the Sunday NY T...
Sunday, May 02, 2021
What is wine worth to you?
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N ow that many of us are getting back up, not quite running yet, but moving forward, some are looking at the value of things. Keeping in min...
Sunday, April 25, 2021
The Deciders vs. the Influencers – A saga for espousing wine in the new era
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T here are voices out there, in the ether of the internet, who are pushing the idea of the demise of the old guard. “The decider class is dy...
Sunday, April 18, 2021
The wonderfully complicated and all too brief (and happy) life of Pio Boffa
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A fond remembrance T here are moments in life when a particular event happens, that sends ripples across the water. Such was the moment ...
Sunday, April 11, 2021
Are you still here? [And when in hell are you gonna get off our grass?]
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L ooking through my wine closet I came upon a couple of bottles I’d forgotten. And probably for good reason. They’re old. They’re white. And...
Sunday, April 04, 2021
Old Cheese Man Wine
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L ately, during this extraordinary era, I’ve been digging into ye olde wine cellar and pulling out crusty specimens that have arrived to an ...
Sunday, March 28, 2021
A Tale of Two Tastings
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O ptions for tasting wine in the last year have been somewhat curtailed by the events that we’ve all encountered. In-person tastings have no...
Sunday, March 21, 2021
Where we've become - And where do we go from here?
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T his is going to be a mish mash of stuff, as we’re kind of in the doldrums of wine blogging . Also, I have a few things I need to do to cle...
Sunday, March 14, 2021
10 of my favorite off-the-beaten-path places to eat in Italy
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From the archives : Most of us cannot jump on a plane and go to Italy, and those in Italy might not have the mobility in 2021 that we had a ...
Sunday, March 07, 2021
Barone Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino – “There was nobody in the world like him.”
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T hose were the words a close friend of his (and mine) said as he wept into his phone, recounting so many wonderful stories and such a rich ...
Thursday, March 04, 2021
The Dramas of Life
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From the archives - Sunday, April 06, 2014 This week in Italy, Barone Alessandro de Renzis Sonnino was taken from us by Covid-19. He will ...
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