Italy is full of characters. People with unusual life stories. And in rustic Tuscany, not the one the tourists go to in droves, I ran across one.
Today as we drove the SS1 “Via Aurelia” highway from below Grosseto to Bolgheri, the traffic was thinner than I had thought; this being one of the days Italians [...]

[Read more →]

How did one get here? It is an island on the way to the North Pole. How does an Italian land here and decide to make wine? How does anyone?
In their unquenchable thirst for discovery and adventure, Italians have been exploring and discovering wine regions for millennia. Gaul, Iberia, Germany, the New World, Australian, South [...]

[Read more →]

The sound of the waves crashing upon the shore has been replaced with the sound of my heart beating in my chest. As if in a dream, I am transported across the world from my wild place in the New World – ocean, eagles, tall pines – to a rugged edge of Tuscany – alabaster, [...]

[Read more →]

We’re not home 48 hours and I get the call. “Pack your bags, you’re needed in Italy. Flight leaves tomorrow at 10 AM.” Could it be that Italy and the wine gods are jealous of our latest infatuation with the New World?

Texas is hot, very hot. And we’re in a drought. And the politicians [...]

[Read more →]

Off the grid for a glorious week. No cell phone. No Internet. No twittering nabobs of negativity. No Facebook. What we did get in return was a life in Nature that we needed so very much. Indeed it is hard to be back home in Texas, in the heat and the mean times. Is that [...]

[Read more →]