Below are photos of Sicilian miller Filippo Drago, along with Esmeralda Spitaleri and Jacopo Nardo, a wonderful couple from Northern Italy I met while touring Castelvetrano in Sicily. It was part of a visit to Filippo's operation, Molini Del...
Tasting from Jeremy Shapiro on Vimeo. My trip to the Paso Robles on California's Central Coastal region had me feeling like "Miles" (Sideways). Honestly, I was amazed by the regions offerings. I was introduced to big,medium,and small vineyards, and...
The other day attended The DSWS Annual Grand Portfolio Tasting. Held at New York's Four Season's hotel restaurant, packed with wine buyers, chefs and producers, the evening consisted of a buzz of wine speak, swishes, sniffing, spittoons and clink of...
Like boxes of chocolate, you never know what a bottle of wine will bring. Learning to read the label helps! It helps, too, if – like me – you have a brother who is a wine geek. Recently he moved out to work in a northern Californian...
