Now And Zin Wine

One of the great things about Italian wines is that there's always a new grape experience around the next corner, even when there'...

I'm disgusted with myself that it took me so long to get to Sotto in Los Angeles.  It's 15, 20 minutes from my home, right down P...

From the hillsides around Marsala comes a wine that makes me think of a California Pinot Noir, only, you know, Italian.  The Villa Pozzi ...

White wine should be interesting. There are plenty of them out there, those savory, salty, sometimes fishy white wines that refuse to be i...

The Stemmari winery is located in the western side of Sicily, Italy's island just off the mainland. It's the largest island in th...

Sicily’s wines are, in a word, amazing. The grapes that seem placed on earth specifically for use on that island make delightful wines. It...

Imported by Palm Bay International, they have this to say about Cantine Settesoli, the winery founded in 1959: "Located in the histor...

If you are still looking for a nice red wine to place on your holiday table, you should look toward Sicily. The Italian island’s Nero d’Av...

Over the past 15 years Sicily's reputation as a wine region has made great strides. Indigenous grapes have been revitalized, and the w...

In the last 15 years, Sicily has worked hard to revitalize indigenous grapes, and the region's winemakers are crafting sophisticated a...

Feudo Arancio is a Sicilian winery owned by the large producer Gruppo Mezzacorona .  Their 1,700 acres of vineyards are located on Sic...

When we go to Disneyland, my wife and I often make  California Adventure  our first stop.  If it's time for lunch, we head for  Wine...

You may know Marsala only as a cooking wine, as in  chicken Marsala , but it also makes a fairly decent sipper. Produced in the Sicilian...

A recent trip to  55 Degree Wine  in Atwater Village allowed me to net a few delightful surprises.  They have a store full of small-pro...

I have been drinking quite a few Italian wines lately, not because they are necessarily my preference, but because my wife, Denise, really l...

We were out for a Sunday morning adventure. Well, actually it was a trip to the Studio City Farmers' Market. We don't like difficult...