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This Just In! Wine is Generational...
…as well as regenerationalSo, I’ve been looking at this parade from the sky box, of late, and it has eventually dawned on me why there is an endless cacophony among wine lovers. It wasn’t something...
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A Vinous Gordian Knot – the Old World/New World Conundrum
How many of us would really appreciate a greater deciphering of the “New World” vs. “Old World” utterances that have been casually tossed around for as many years as I have been in the wine world? Is...
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Terroir and the Noösphere – How a French Jesuit paleontologist and a...
Terroir’s dough has been kneaded so much that the large Batard it started out as is looking more like flatbread. It’s been worked too hard. But sometimes, we must roll the dough into a ball, moisten...
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"It’s the innocent people being attacked — the kids. It’s the kids, man. I...
Ukrainian soldiers trying to save the father of a family of four — the only one at that moment who still had a pulse — moments after being hit by a mortar while trying to flee Irpin, near Kyiv, on...
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Why blog about wine now?
I’ve got to say this: with what the world is witnessing right at this moment, I find it exceedingly difficult, if not absurd, to think about writing a post on a wine blog. Oh, two of the greatest...
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Vinitaly – Should I stay or should I go?
In three weeks, barring any further unforeseen crisis and impending world events, Vinitaly 2022 will commence. Having test driven Vinitaly last autumn, and forestalling and then cancelling the 2020...
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From the Archives: The Stake Behind the Sizzle
From the archivesDriving along the scuttled roads of urban Austin, I finally found a parking place, after 10 minutes of searching. By some twist of fate, I managed to find a place in front of a...
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The Death of an Iconic Italian Restaurateur
In the book, “The Sicilian,” by Mario Puzo, there was a passage on a curved archway above a cemetery near Palermo. On that archway was the message: “WE HAVE BEEN LIKE YOU – AND YOU SHALL BE LIKE US.”...
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Dispatch from Kyiv: Why I won’t be going to Vinitaly this year
The following is a speculative compilation deriving out of anecdotal missives from friends in the wine trade who are in Ukraine. This is only a drill. Слава Україні! I’m in the basement of our...
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#Ciao, #Vinitaly2022, #WellDone!
That was the conveyance via the social media thoroughfares on Wednesday April 13, 2020 as the most recent iteration of Vinitaly was winding down. For those who did go to “the show” the reactions were...
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Love Me! Love My Wine!
One of the distillations I’ve arrived to, at this late hour, is that ultimately everything is about love. And that includes any and all things that have to do with wine. Oh, yes, there is science and...
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Monday is the new Saturday
Ten years ago on this blog, I was still working, and I wrote a post called An Eternity of Mondays.“Your job isn’t who you are,” the little monkey voice inside the head kept chattering. Yeah, yeah,...
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“All Italian White Wines Taste Alike”
from the archives I’m sitting at a table, in a restaurant, with a seminal figure in white wine. The beverage director comes up to us to say hello. A few pleasantries are exchanged. After all, we are...
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Living My Best Life in the Age of Social Media
Hey Torquemada, this is all you’ll get out of me…Here’s what I’ve been thinking about lately. In regards to the wine trade, the wine world, the wine profession and wine enthusiasm in general. What I...
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Want To Be a Better Italian Wine Expert? Study French Wine
I don’t know how it happened, but recently I was talking to an acquaintance who never knew what I did in my career. I mentioned something about being a wine guy, with a particular focus on Italian...
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Looking for a safe place to tell my stories
…or, looking for a safe place to buy groceries……or, looking for a safe place to worship……or, looking for a safe place to go to school……or, looking for a safe place to live out my life in peace…So, it...
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“For Chrissake, enough about the evils of the world and the unfairness of...
How’s your week been? Here, the past week has been challenging. Family health issues, the heat, the economy, the war, the dead babies, the endless gun battles, ya feel me? Yeah, I bet you do. Well, (at...
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Keep On Trucklin’ – Press Junkets in the Age of Disruption.
Recently, I was invited to come to Italy for a visit, all expenses paid. I politely declined for personal reasons. A few weeks later I was invited to come to California, all expenses paid. Again, I...
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Featured Father ~ Albert Moulin
from the archives...He's been gone fifteen years, this son of New Orleans, father and mentor to so many of us. Al was one of the forefathers of wine in America. He was there at the beginning, right...
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Gone Fishin'
As Leonardo da Vinci once said, "See you on the other side." Back after a break. Thanks for reading. © written and photographed by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in...
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