In what will come as a surprise to no one, Fix.com has published the companion piece to my Italian White Wine Grapes article, The Grapes Behind Italian Red Wines. That one definitely fits right into the saw-it-coming-from-a-mile-away-bro category. Having said that, I think that the geeky among you will be pleasantly surprised by my grape…
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I Have Hate, But I Still Love (Italian White Wine Grapes For Fix.com)
As I’m recovering from mouth surgery, I am currently into my second consecutive week without a sip of vino. This scenario has created something angry and sinister very deep inside my psyche; the type of thing that is best left in its evil slumber and not forced upon the fragile, gossamer-like veil that separates what…
Italian Wine, Tunes, And Dude At VINO 2015 in NYC!
What does great music have to do with killer Italian vino? I’m not 100% sure, either, but we’re going to find out at VINO 2015 in NYC, when the Italian Wine Week and Convention takes over the Waldorf Astoria on Park Avenue February 1-4! VINO 2015 will showcase 200+ Italian wine producers, and the days…
What We Learned From The Fulvio Bressan Debacle
Friuli winemaker Fulvio Bressan’s racially-charged political comments about Cécile Kyenge, Italy’s first African-Italian government minister (you can read the translation if you’re up for it, but fair warning: it will most likely disgust you) just caused a large crap-storm in the wine world. In my view, only an idiot (it takes a lot of stupid…