Let me set the current scene here in New York, at 6 o'clock on a Friday evening. The skies are low, the rain is coming down so hard that even the scaffolding around our building gives no shelter, the rain...

Could this be the next big thing? Yesterday the cup of the U.S. news media was running over with the results of an extensive study by Harvard Medical School and the National Institute on Aging. It offers pretty conclusive evidence...

After yesterday's post on resveratrol, Gabrio wrote that wine has all the vitamins. Not according to the Wine Pros, who list the percentage of daily requirements provided by a glass of wine of various types. The numbers are, unfortunately, miniscule....

Mi domando, cosa penserebbe Bruno Migliorini dello stato attuale dell'italiano? La bella lingua, la favella di Dante e di Petrarca, sta scivolando sott' un'ondata, no, uno tsunami di brutti neologismi, spesso dall'inglese, e spesso di parole che sono brutte anche...

No, this isn't the same list I made for a recent posting in Italian. Not exactly, anyway. I have to tell you that it's hard to come back here, to the dreary, humid weather, to the reality of having spent...

Any distributorship with a balanced, blueprinted engine will not be caught dead in the water. But those who rely on sleazy giveaway programs, under the counter deals, locked up wine lists, and phone call representation are like boats with a cheap engine; they won’t survive the choppy waters of real ...

Today’s news blip in Waste News has the American wine industry throwing confetti in the street: "Juanita Duggan will succeed W. Henson Moore as president of the American Forest & Paper Association." You might think this announcement a strange reason to celebrate, but for the past seven years Duggan, as ...

1. Il prosciutto crudo. Negli USA non e' mai tanto buono. 2. I frutti di mare. Stessa storia. 3. Il gelato della Gelateria di S. Valentino in Abruzzo. Si parla di Giolitti, e cio' e' buono, ma la gelateria abruzzese...

This week at Appellation America you can read my article East vs. West: The Great Paso Robles Rift. The article is a roundtable interview with Paso Robles vintners Justin Baldwin, Gary Eberle, and Shannon O'Neill. Some interesting opinions are put forth, and I hope you will join in our roundtable ...

The Paso Robles wine industry has formed a committee to consider splitting Paso Robles into well known geographical regions, but a vocal group of proponents protest this move, claiming that Paso Robles is still not well known outside the central coast. They argue that our primary goal should be marketing ...