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Starting with I Love Lucy, why has almost every long-running comedy show in American TV gone on a long trip? To boost the ratings. When things started sliding for the Beverly Hillbillies, even they went to England. So, I come...

Filippo Ronco, who runs the interesting Italian blog Tigullio Vino, has raised a very good question: Is our wine taste changing with the whims of fashion, or is it truly evolving? Some of his Italian commenters seem to think that...

Fredric Koeppel and his wife (la dolce meta', as they say in Italian) came to New York yesterday for a sort of working vacation. Fredric will be busy tasting while Leslie will be visiting art installations and museums. Look out...

There was a little debate recently about what the Young are looking for in wine, etc., etc. If they are looking for / at wine at all. We old fuddy-duddies expressed our opinions in our fuddy-duddyish way, i.e., with reason,...

This blog has been a labor of love since I launched it on October 9, 2005. But even love needs a helping hand in paying the bills, so I am accepting advertising from now on. You must have noticed the...

Chiming acidWhilst reviewing a new Chardonnay released by Chateau Montelena, our man in Memphis wrote:The texture is so opulent that it’s almost talc-like, yet the wine is never ponderous or overwhelming because it’s permeated by chiming acid and a profound...

                                                                        Aristide attraverso le immagini dei primi sei mesi del 2006 che hanno popolato i ...

Brevi cenni di cronaca dai wine-bloggers: Wine Blogger AssociationC'è stata una tavola rotonda al Vinitaly, poi, qualche ora fa, un'ottima cena a quattr'occhi (ma molti più bicchieri) alla Trattoria Pegaso di Adriano Liloni (blogger pure lui, su per un monte...