One more day to go for calendar year 2009. Yesterday Sausage Paul was in the mood to pop a few bottles, starting with some Nicky Feuillatte Rose’ Palmes d’or. I dropped by his place in the morning with a little “bling” for his New Year stocking. I know Luca Zaia is trying to get everyone [...]

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Looking back at my Best of 2009 on Flickr, go to the Slideshow or click on the individual photos below – these are just a sampling of the images.
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…I started On The Wine Trail in Italy on December 28, 2005. My first post was pretty basic, a picture of Monte Vulture with a cluster of Aglianico grapes in the foreground. The impetus was from a friend, David Anderson, whose blog, Italian’s Insight to Travel Italy, was this constant force of nature that compelled [...]

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The temperature was barely above freezing when I took a longer than intended run today. When I got back home, there was a message on my voice mail, from my friend Cassandra in Italy. “Alfonso, where are you? I need to talk to someone who I am so close to but not related by blood.” [...]

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“For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given”

Leo’s First Christmas
This little guy, who looks strikingly like his handsome dad, Giulio and beautiful mom, Stacy and sister Gia, is Leonardo Galli. He came into this world not long after Jan 1 of this year, but way before he was “due.” At [...]

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