A Few Good Men Winery

schellbe - that's because for the most part, wines fall into categories that are broadly understood and agreed upon. You need to search a bit if you want to find wines that are really far apart. We did a blind tasting a...

When a notion gets into Brad Kane’s head, he can become extremely insistent about it. He loves planning themed tastings. Verticals, horizontals, vertizontals, transversals, metarregionals... So, for a few months he’d...

Well it’s been a year since I last had dinner in New York with Luca Currado. A year ago I really raided my cellar and pulled an almost complete vertical of Vietti’s Barolo Rocche with vintages spanning 1967 to 2004....

I am still toying with the shape and tone of this blog so forgive me as I feel my way. This week I feel compelled to comment on some Italian-wine news that has been filtering in over the last few weeks. I included a throw...

The Sicilians say, that Sicily is a great place to live but a terrible place to work. The have the sun, the sea, the wine and the women, but they don't have the money and therefore, work is not priority. What can be done...

A Postcard from Sicily The Sicilians say, that Sicily is a great place to live but a terrible place to work. The have the sun, the sea, the wine and the women, but they don't have the money and therefore, work is not...

Trade fairs, no matter the trade, are a Darwinian exercise in survival of the fittest; specifically survival of the flashiest. I am often reminded of Bourbon Street in New Orleans with its lineup of colorful hawkers trying...

On Friday, January 25th Napa Valley residents celebrated the Immortal Memory of the "Ploughman Poet," Robert Burns. The event was promoted as "The Grain Meets The Grape - an evening of Scottish tradition." This was...