Etna
On the deck of I Vigneri di Salvo Foti--with Mt. Etna rumbling and steaming in the background.... After a weekend in Rome and an...
Barolo
Moonrise over La Morra from the deck of Osteria Veglio... Beautiful as Barbaresco and its wines were, Barolo might have been even more...
Barbaresco
Looking across the valley from Treiso toward the village of Barbaresco.... Our recent trip to Italy began in Piemonte. We arrived in...
IPNC--The Event
The International Pinot Noir.Celebration started in Oregon in the late 1980s as a way to gather the best Pinot Noir producers--and Pinot...
IPNC--The Pre-Week
For the ninth or tenth consecutive year, late July saw us in Oregon for the International Pinot Noir Celebration. I went the first time,...
Heart's Delight 20th Anniversary
Heart's Delight--DC's premier food and wine festival--raises money to fight heart disease (as some would say, participating in Heart's...
Stunning Evening
A few of the many stunning wines from the Somm Appreciation Dinner I've heard about them. I've read about them. Those evenings where...
Back at Blackberry Farm
with super-somm (food and wine director) Andy Chabot Somehow, my commitment to post more often went astray...cancer has a way of doing...
Sharing
It's interesting. I love drinking good wine. But I love just as much sharing good wine. That may sound obvious, but it's taken me a...
Why No Posts?
I haven't posted anything in a long time. Part of the reason is that we are all creatures of habit. Once upon a time, I was in the habit...
