Vermentino Grapes I wrote an article about Vermentino in the World outside of Italy for Civilta del Bere, an Italian wine magazine of long renown. It was published this week. It's in Italian and I am proud of it so I am putting it up here. They publish long issues around grape varieties and other... Continue Reading →
Happy Bastille Day: Remembering A Toast With Pierre Peters
I have been fortunate enough to celebrate La Fête Nationale Francaise - Le Quatorze Juillet, a holiday marking the anniversary of the fall on July 14, 1789 of the Bastille, in Paris on a number of occasions. As readers of this blog know, I was a Francophile in my early life and majored in French... Continue Reading →
Memorable Events: Wine Is More – A Vinitaly Seminar – Part 1
As Vinitaly approaches again, I have been going through my notes to see which producers I want to visit this year and what I have tasted and written about in the past. Of course, as happens to the best of us, numerous articles that I promised I would write last year didn't get written. Not... Continue Reading →
Women In Wine Fridays: Le Donne Del Vino 26 Years Of Success – Part 2
This is the second part of my post on the Le Donne del Vino seminar held by Civilta del Bere last year at Vinitaly. My post was getting so long yesterday that I feared no one would read it on the web and each one of these women deserves to be recognized and written about... Continue Reading →
Women In Wine Fridays: Le Donne Del Vino 26 Years Of Success – Part 1
It is hard to believe it has been a whole year since the last Vinitaly but life seems to have a way of speeding up as you get (a little bit) older, as some of you may have noticed. In any event, this post is about the 25th anniversary of the organization Le Donne del... Continue Reading →
Vinitaly 2013: Thoughts on Le Donne del Vino 25th Anniversary Tasting
As I wait in the press room to try to get into the Vinitaly today, I am struck by how much the fair has evolved over the years. Probably the biggest difference in the 9 years that I have been coming to Vinitaly is in the number of foreigners that attend from China, Russia, Brazil... Continue Reading →