“Your job isn’t who you are,” the little monkey voice inside the head kept chattering. Yeah, yeah, heard it all so m any times before in a been-there-done-that kind of way. Wave after wave of images roll onto the shores of my short term recall, trying to evoke a response or any sign of life. [...]

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The past week has been busy as hell. I have found myself in countless restaurants in South Texas, West Texas and North Texas. That would be like saying you were in Champagne, Languedoc and Bordeaux. Or Piemonte, Tuscany and Sicily. And in fact, we have been tasting wine from those regions of Italy. And then [...]

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Sometimes life is a cornucopia of events. And sometimes it’s a dry well in the desert. And this week, while it is tending more towards the first,  we are also going the whole hog.

Master sommelier Bobby Stuckey and chef Lachlan Mackinnon- Patterson have been sauntering across Texas with their Frasca/Scarpetta road show. Dallas on Tuesday, [...]

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I wasn’t sure how long it would take for Jacopo Bacci to fall into Texas, but as expected it took less than a week. Sure the weather has been great, and places like Dallas, San Antonio, Houston and Buffalo Gap were struttin’ their finest stuff in front of the young man. And so it goes, [...]

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Busy time out here in West Texas – just a few photos – more to come…Keep smiling – keep drinking wine – keep dancing – keep hoping.

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written and photographed by Alfonso Cevola limited rights reserved On the Wine Trail in Italy

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