A Timeless Tranquility in Tuscany
The road to Querciavalle ~ June 1987

A Moving Experience
This afternoon I was standing in the aisle of a super market looking at a stack of Italian wine. A good looking woman in her middle 40‘s, with a plunging neckline, motioned to the Sangiovese and suggested I try a bottle. “It’s delicious. And it’s Sangiovese. How could you go wrong?”Indee

The Wine Week, So Far (looking for a wine of the week)
It’s just been three days this week so far but it feels like a week or more. Evening events, tastings, wine dinners every night this week so far (with more to come) along with full day’s work, working lunches even. And then there are the deals.Two truffle wine dinners this week. I am all truffled

O-N-D Halftime Report: A Three-Tier Crusaders Gamebook
Only 39 selling days till ChristmasThere are all kinds of things to distract one in the wine business these days. Confluences abound yet points of view are so diverse that to troll the top 100 wine blogs

Master Class in Gruner and Nero D'Avola at a local Bacaro
A cicchetti feast for vegans and a panino-fest for porchetta-loversHow often does one get the opportunity to travel around a stare visiting great wine people with a master sommelier like Damon Ornowski