This is the era of iconoclasts. Forget about the adage of white wine with fish and red wine with meat. Rather drink what you like no matter what you’re eating….

Think red sauce and you search almost automatically for a red wine. But wait! Maybe a white wine would be a better match. But according to John Kelley, wine director…
Today our van brought us to the Lipari dock to get our hydrofoil back to Milazzo where our chartered bus was awaiting. We went directly to Gaglio Winery, located neat…
Today as we headed towards Taormina, we made a lunch visit at the Nicosia Winery just outside Catania. This is another family-owned estate that has grown enormously in recent years…

Today on our way to Agrigento we stopped at one of the beacons of Sicilian winemaking, Planeta. Our hostess was none other than Chiara Planeta. The Planeta family has been…

Wine, local cuisine, culture: we achieved our goals again with some great wines, a special lunch and travel through rural Sicily. Our first visit was to the Rapitalà Winery, a…

A beautiful sunny Fall day is a great way to begin our Sicily tour. We started with a guided walking tour of old town Palermo. This is my 5th visit…

While visiting our daughter recently we had an alfresco lunch at a great Italian restaurant hidden in a strip shopping center. We stopped and starting looking at the menu trying…

(Paul Holland, his wife and sister-in-law love Argentina, especially during the Wine Festival in February. This is his 2nd guest blog; the first blog was about a winery visit in…

Here we are in Mendoza Argentina for the fifth time in 10 years, myself, wife Flor and her two sisters are here for the annual month long Vendemia (wine festival…