The lack of wine product reviews here lately hasn’t been intentional—blame can be laid squarely at the feet of our toddler, who has been keeping us busy with her daily growth spurts, emotionally-expressive freedom, and overall adorableness. I was, however, afforded a rare opportunity to actually give a product sample a try, mostly because we…
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Once More Around the Burning Horn (Dispatch From Etna)
With this article, I’ll be wrapping up feature coverage of last year’s media jaunt to Sicily’s Etna (you can expect quite a few more mini-reviews, however, from producers not given the feature treatment here). Those features (including write-ups of Torre Mora and Passopisciaro) have been meant as a deeper dive into the current Etna wine…
A Step Ahead (A Look Inside Sicily’s Passopisciaro)
I’m immature enough, even in my 50s (!!), to have had trouble getting my head around the translation of Etna’s Passopisciaro when I visited last year during a media jaunt. Foot step? Pissing step? “Pitchpiss?” You see the travails that I have to deal with when I am scouring some of the most gorgeous locations…
Wine In The Time of Coronavirus, Part 67: Here’s The Beef (Revisiting Uruguay Wines)
Longtime 1WD readers might remember Uruguay as the place where I met Pincho, a (technically wild) Capybara who was quite selective about who he did and did not let pet him (apparently, Capybara’s purr when they’re happy, by the way, which I can tell from first-hand experience that having an enormous rodent purr while you’re…