Planeta: Terroir is everything.
Planeta: For each Terroir, its own winery.
Terroir is the heart and soul of an agricultural product. After all, wine is only fermented grapes- a product of farming in its most pure and basic form. All those t...
Italian White Wines Can Age. #truth
I posted this picture on my Instagram and Twitter feeds last week and got a number of surprising responses. "Was it still good?" and "Does Verdicchio last that long?" and "Where did you find that? It'...
Finding Mount Etna in Denver, Colorado @theKitchen
Tenuta Fessina's "LaEneo" at The Kitchen in Denver, Colorado.
I remember the first time I tasted these wines. My good friend Giampaolo Gravina sent me over to the Sicilian Pavillion at Vinitaly to find Federic...
Trust me. It’s me and Frank Cornelissen @SottoLA!
Have you ever given somebody a camera and fanatically asked them to take a picture of you and somebody really, truly important to you?
Like, say you meet Ozzy Osbourne or Tony Iommi in an airport- you'd want t...
Cottanera Barbazzale Rosso. Etna Strikes Again.
There's no doubt about it, I love the wines of Sicily's Mount Etna. This little gem is one of my current favorites- Cottanera's Barbazzale Rosso. It's a juicy, mineral, snappy wine made from the indigenous gr...
Oh, Sicilia.
I have always been a fan of Sicilian wines. From the sleek, elegant Nerello Mascalese of Etna's steep slopes, to the powerful, heavy-handed Nero d'Avola of Siracusa- these wines have always captivated me.
I ...