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On the Wine Trail in Italy

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Following the trail of the vine as it winds through Italy and beyond. Not just an Italian wine blog, but an intent look into the passion the grape inspires, the roots it sinks into culture, family and time, and the way change affects us all. Posting, at a minimum, every Sunday and Thursday.

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Terre Nere, Black Friday and Squash Blossoms

These two remind me of someone... I was sitting on my mom’s couch watching the vintage movie Laura, starring the timeless beauty Gene Tierney, and drinking a glass of Etna ...

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Posted 2 days 6 hours ago by Alfonso Cevola
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New Wine! New Love! New Era!

An anaphoric traipse I was itching to open a bottle of the Novello . The first time we received Novello from Italy it must have been 1983. I filled up ...

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Posted 5 days 16 hours ago by Alfonso Cevola
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Moths in Search of Their Fame

Vercelli ~ early 1980's Where have all the great Italian wine experts gone? Over the weekend I have been thinking about who represents the best of expertise in Italian wine. ...

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Posted 8 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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Big Reds & Bubbas

Ace's Mamma Mia Weekend Blog Update Arghh, it's drivin' me nuts This week I've been in Austinopoli setting up future wine events and working around a few sale calls. John ...

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Posted 11 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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The Trudge

La Faticaccia Not good news from the front lines of the selling game. From what I am seeing, getting to the end of the year unscathed will be highly uncertain. ...

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Posted 13 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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The Glamour of Arrogance

Be hold the way our fine feathered friendHis virtue doth parade I don’t know what it is about Sunday. Where once there was a family dinner, now there is solitary ...

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Posted 15 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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Casual Fridays Redux: Nomadic Furniture for the Jug Wine Lover
Filed under: Just For Fun

My friend Hank Rossi and his wife Phillissa just returned from a two month nomadic trip across Europe, their blog is a hoot, go give it a look-see. To ease ...

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Posted 18 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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Are We Not Drawn Onward to New Era? *

So here we are again, the harvest is completed and the new wine is in the barrel. Once more the cycle begins anew, a sequence which we in the wine ...

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Posted 20 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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Drink in Eight Years
Filed under: Love and Loss

Yesterday would have been Liz and my 11th anniversary. On our third (and last) anniversary, in 2000, we were given a bottle and encouraged to put it away and drink ...

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Posted 23 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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American Terroir ~ Open Your Heart, and Shine it On

Yesterday, at an event for the local farmers and winemakers, there were a few Texas wines at the tables. One particularly appealed, insofar as it corresponded with what I have ...

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Posted 25 days ago by Alfonso Cevola
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