In an earlier post I w(h)ined about why we were required to name our Methode Portagee* fortified wine something other than Port. Now I'd like to talk about the rest of it... This Pour't is made from Touriga Nacional grapes....

Capisci che stai invecchiando, quando al corso di degustazione che prepari si iscrive il figlio di una tua compagna di liceo.Ed ora vado a miscelare il curaro allo Scotch serale...

Struck by the spirit of adventure today while tasting for my September column on Italian wines, I hijacked the large jug of Carlo Rossi Paisano that some fellow editor had left out on a table in our hallway here at F&W (sent our way by one truly ...

Ipse dixit : "... gruppo sociale e culturale che esiste anche in Italia, e che è del tutto sottorappresentato in ogni ambito: sono quelli che hanno tra i 25 e i 40 anni, curiosità per il mondo e i tempi e attenzione a quel che succede, cultura e privilegi per ...

Carina l'immagine qua sopra, eh? Ringrazio Mauro Biani , via Macchianera . Mentre qualcuno si lagna per la dura flessione dei consumi , qualcun altro scaccia i clienti col forcone.[E, alle solite, qualcuno ha youtubizzato simili eventi]

Jeff Stai (El Jefe) of Twisted Oak met with Amazon representatives last Thursday, and here is his report (left as a comment on a previous Amazon-related post): OK, so I am reporting back Sunday (just back from a very successful two-day tasting event with the TAPAS organization.) Pretty much everything has been covered by other comments in the several posts on this. They are going for smaller...

Cold technical facts: released October 2006, only 80 cases made Twisted Few selection: N/A 100% Touriga Nacional (fortified) a damn little bottle! see this wine on the Twisted Oak web site Links to reviews of this wine on the web:...

I am happy to announce a fellow Blogger, Jeff Stai, from the fabulous Elbloggotorcido has won my donation to Menu for Hope, a wine tour in the Napa Sonoma area. I am so pleased a truly serious wine person has...

Jeff Stai (from Twisted Oak and El Bloggo Torcido ) was so kind to speak at our Direct Sales and Marketing Symposium. I’ll be posting more of the symposium notes but Jeff was kind enough to send me the links of the websites he mentioned at the symposium. Here they are for anyone to review: Several web sites were mentioned during my talk yesterday and here they are: Winery Web Site Report...

Non posso definirmi in senso stretto “amico” di Gigi Brozzoni , direttore del Seminario Permanente Luigi Veronelli e co-curatore della guida dei vini che al nome di Gino si richiama, ma posso dire, come l’ho più volte detto e scritto, che lo considero innanzitutto una persona seria e poi un ...