Yeah, I’m still out, but this remote posting to show off one of my favorite wine buyers vintage electic Guitars. Harris Polakof, whom I have known for 20 years, has set up some of his out of this world collection of vintage guitars on the tasting table. So while we taste wine (as we did [...]

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Folks, we all know there is more to life than blogging. I am taking a week off. I need a break from all this connectedness. Just a week. I’ll be gathering more tales from the wine trail, I promise. In the meantime, thanks for reading, I’ll be back.

written by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On [...]

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This night was a memorable one on many levels. I know Sausage Paul doesn’t like me to do too many of these blog posts, and I will curtail them in the near future to go on to other subjects.
But if you are going to do a wine dinner, how about taking a few hints from [...]

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From the “seeing red from sea to shining sea” dept.
Wow, what a day this one was. Last week, while not yet October (the “O” in O-N-D, the frenetic wine selling holiday season) it sure seemed like it. And while it isn’t quite the wine trail in Italy, the young Italians have come off their trail [...]

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And new paths to the hearts of Americans
All through the years we tell these tales about Italian wine. Stories to get people to feel more comfortable with the different wines, the names, the languages. And after years and years of these stories, whether it’s about blood from a saint or a prophet, tears from the [...]

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