The Naked Vine: Wine Advice for the Rest of Us.™

On the heels of my little adventure across the hills and beaches of Italy comes another set of Italian samples for your consideration as ...

Pinot grigio usually isn’t my speed. While I’ve come to enjoy Italian whites more and more (I feel pretty safe with almost any varietal...

Quick quiz…I say “Nero.” What pops into your head? This guy? Teenage Wasteland! No? Maybe this guy? "Ambassador Sp...

“Italy is not spaghetti and Chianti wine.”      - 20 Mondi introduction I imagine Michael Loos sitting at a table in a trattoria in Mi...

I had the good fortune last week to co-lead a tasting with my pal Danny Gold from Party Source. The theme of the tasting changed quite a bit...

As you might remember from our Italian Wine Primer, there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 2,000 grapes indigenous to Italy. Variety may...

Nero fiddling as Rome burns. This image has become the allegorical embodiment of decadence and detachment. This, of course, is an apocrypha...