LUNETTA PROSECCO…a perfect diversion

Okay. So 2020 isn’t working out quite the way we had planned or hoped. That doesn’t give anyone a reason to hide his collective head in some trash bin and just wait around for the new year to explode. On the contrary, this is the dawn. It is Autumn. A new year is coming. Time

SANTA CRISTINA CHIANTI SUPERIORE 2017

“Amici e vini sono meglio vecchi” (Old wine and old friends improve with age) Let me begin by saying that a good chianti is by far my favorite type of wine. The color, the aroma and just the appearance in a glass is one of the most beautiful simple sights given to us by the

Masseria Li Veli Orion Primitivo

PRIMITIVO a dark skinned grape, naturally sweet and known for producing inky colored highly tannic and high alcohol wines. Its home is generally recognized as the region of Italy called Puglia, very close to the Croatian border which is probably where the grape was first grown. In the early 19th century it was introduced here

Just an Unrelated Thought

Meglio aver poco che niente. (Better to have a little than to have nothing.) You know I do mostly write about wine. But this column is really about “the good life.” The kind that Tony Bennet sang about so many years ago. But the good life as we should know it is not a catered