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How’d this Piedmontese white grape get to Southern Ukraine’s front?
Timorasso has gone from near extinction to a hot somm secret. Now it’s leaking out to the world in some disparate places.
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Don’t call it Ver----------!
French Vermentino is having a deserved boom. Too bad they’ve got to call it something else.
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Philosophy and beauty. (And wine too)
Inside Brunello Cucinelli’s ultra-boutique red wine
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Lunch with Bacchus! (Sort of)
A pair of Valpo vintners pairs wine (and food) with unearthed spectacular Roman mosaics
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A Mondavi’s Italian Dream
Carlo Mondavi and wife Giovanna launch a boutique winery in their Piemontese “heaven”
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Fifty Years of Superb Soave
Pieropan’s Calvarino should be one of the coolest whites you’re drinking
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California’s real Alt- wine scene
We expect California to think different. Same with its winemakers
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Super Darrell
How the Sacramento grocer developed his global influence and following
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CA’s Old Vineyard Heroes
Promoting the wildly varied vines of pre-Prohibition days
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Sicily’s “Unfinished Poem”
A return to Sicily’s Marsala and Az. Marco De Bartoli
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Prince of a guy
A solitary life and compelling wines in NW Sicily
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Q: Do you know Suavia?
You should!
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Alt. Barolo anyone?
A winemaking journey through time and bubbles
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What’s Love Got To Do With It?
Romeo, Juliet and Valpolicella
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Running the Light Red
Grignolino is a food-friendly Piedmont red coming back into appreciation
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Listen up!
South of Somewhere comes to audible
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The Viking’s last chapter in Sicily
Peter Vinding-Diers should be richer and more famous.
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Urban Holiday Wine Stress
Do you suffer from U.H.W.S.? Take heart.
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Meaningful Prosecco?
A new generation from Northern Italy returns the popular fizz to its roots
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Nobility, Crime and a Great Little Pizza Wine
On Campania’s endangered monster vines
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Going Deeper Into the South
From Taormina Gourmet to Campania’s Fiano maestro Roberto di Meo
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Into the volcano
Around the surreal landscape of Naples
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From Prosecco Wars to Pingus
My new column covers an old battle, and my latest feature on one of the world’s most fascinating winemakers.
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Getting nostalgic for the future
Being a conservative progressive isn’t a contradiction when it comes to food, wine and life in Italy
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Etna keeps erupting
The volcano continues to catch young winemaking dreams
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Ice it !
In Summer, forget the ridiculous concept of red wine at “room temperature”
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The Last Leopard
Lucio Tasca d’Almerita (1940-2022)
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It’s Hot.
Hell Yeah. What to do ?
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From the South of Italy to way way north in the Atlantic
Did I say Canada?
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California Diaries 2022
New wave producers with Italian Grapes in the Golden state
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A Napa Son under Umbrian Sun
Just before Covid Rollie Heitz moved to Umbria and is making wine. He hasn’t looked back.
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South by South
More travels and new experiences from Campania to Puglia
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Hey To Santa Barbara and Back to Italy
What I learned from diving into California's Italian-inspired vineyards
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More California Meets Italy
A tale of two guys who have nothing in common, except for…
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Passing of a great winemaker and friend
Franco Allegrini was one of Northern Italy’s most influential winemakers
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Southern Italian Grapes in the New World
Italian varieties in California simply make sense
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Back to the Old World
And the Italian edition of South of Somewhere
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Wrapping it up in the West
This spring has not felt like work, truthfully.
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West Coast Bound
It’s been a few years since I’ve been to California, and I am looking to return on Monday.
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Welcome to Fiano February
Come along for the ride
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