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New west coast food and wine blogs for a new year
Breaking news: For all you wedding watchers out there, Tracie B has just posted on our wedding cake! Yes, WEDDING CAKE! Above: While in Los Angeles in early December, I had lunch at Mozza with my frie… more →
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New west coast food and wine blogs for a new year
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wrote 17 hours ago: Breaking news: For all you wedding watchers out there, Tracie B has just posted on our wedding cake! … more →
Champagne, Xerox, and Kleenex
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wrote 1 day ago: antonomasia [ahn-TAH-noh-MAY-zee'ah], the use of a proper name to express a general idea, as in call … more →
BrooklynGuy's best value Champagne
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wrote 2 days ago: Above: This and the images below were all captured in September 2008, when Franco and I visited the … more →
Champagne by any other name...
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wrote 4 days ago: From the semiotics department… Above: A few weeks ago, Tracie B and I attended a “Champa … more →
Impossible wine pairing? Chicken and dumplings
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wrote 5 days ago: Above: Did I mention the girl can cook? Tracie B made chicken and dumplings last night for the whole … more →
Xmas eve gumbo (and they called me "Tex")
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wrote 1 week ago: Above: “You’re a cowboy, Je-emy,” said Tobey (left) when I tried on the cowboy hat … more →
Zaia watch: Italy's agriculture minister's tenure much ado about nothing?
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wrote 1 week ago: It’s already been a big week for Italy’s agriculture minister Luca Zaia, left (note the … more →
An orange, natural wine from the Veneto (and my very own mimetic desire)
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wrote 1 week ago: Above: One of my favorite places in the world, a scene from Petrarch’s house in the hilltop to … more →
Che bigolo! A sexy pairing with Pierre Péters
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wrote 2 weeks ago: Above: Not exactly traditional but delicious. Buckwheat bigoli with guinea hen last night at Trio in … more →
Stars fell on Toscana...
wrote 2 weeks ago: Above: The 1990 Tignanello was youthful and powerful and had a woody note on the nose that some folk … more →
A vintage image of an Italian vintage long forgotten
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wrote 3 weeks ago: Above: Grape transport early 1900s (?), Bologna, signed “Greetings from Umberto.” It mak … more →
Chiantigate? News of a new controversy breaks in Italy
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wrote 3 weeks ago: When the first dispatch arrived in my inbox this morning with my nearly daily dose of WineNews.it, I … more →
Best Tuscan wines? Life beyond Tignanello...
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wrote 3 weeks ago: In the wake of BrooklynGuy’s post on 1990 Tignanello and my subsequent response, a couple of r … more →
Amphora-aged Primitivo, pozoles and old Rioja, and a Texas wine I liked
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wrote 4 weeks ago: Above: This week, Tracie B and I attended our first holiday party of the year at the home of Texas … more →
Reaction to news of the new Amarone DOCG
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wrote 1 month ago: Above: One of these things is not like the other things. One of these things just doesn’t belo … more →
Thanksgiving vine
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wrote 1 month ago: It’s that time of year again and the holiday season is upon us… A recent post by Vinogir … more →
Our date with the City, part 2: the best natural wine bar in the U.S.?
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wrote 1 month ago: Above: I may be going out on a limb here when I say that Ten Bells seems to have captured the title … more →
Antonio knows that pleasure is the child of pain
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wrote 1 month ago: From the “run don’t walk department”… Last night, after leading an Italian w … more →
An Italian wine walks into a bar...
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wrote 1 month ago: Above: Yesterday, I tasted through the current releases of Fèlsina with my friends, from left, Craig … more →
