There are so many myths and misconceptions about white wine among the general public. For example, people think white wine...
Joanie Karapetian
Central Italy (Centro Italia)LazioNorthern Italy (Italia Nord)PiemonteRegions of Italy (Regioni d' Italia)SiciliaSouthern Italy (Italia Sud)
8Allison Amato, Luciano Brussolo (a Real Italian) and me… Italy is a complicated place: quintessential Beautiful Chaos. It’s full of...
Damiano Ciolli, Birk O’Halloran and Leticia at Vinitaly 2013. There are very few wines indigenous to the region of Lazio, and even...
I proudly introduce Melissa Mendez, wine girl extraordinaire, one of my favorite wine geeks, and one of my most treasured friends. Her...
As an Italian-American I have tasted a lot of imported Panettone. This Christmas cake is a standard in the Italian-American...
How awesome is it to step into a wine shop in Seattle and find one of the most obscure grapes in Italy,...
None of Italy’s many mythic wines are as fascinating to me as the story of the eccentric Prince of Venosa,...
My colleague Vittorio Marzotto and I had this beautiful burrata pizza for lunch at Bottega Louie in Los Angeles yesterday....