It was a great weekend here in the east and although the hazy, hot and humid, weather was more July like than Memorial Day like, there was really no rain to speak of.    No heading down the shore this year, as…

A local shop I was browsing in recently acquired a cache of this wine and had one opened to taste.  Even had the chunk of Parmigiano Reggiano not been available, I couldn’t resist tasting. This 17 year old Sangiovese is arguably,…

With all the rain we’ve had lately, the weather has been unusually humid and sticky.  With a delicate meal of pan sauteed veal cutlets, I couldn’t bring myself to open a red, so I “unscrewed” the 2009 Planeta La Segreta…

Ciao tutti! This past Saturday was my sweetheart’s birthday, so after a busy day of baseball and lacrosse tournaments we we able to wind down the day with a relaxing dinner at a local Trattoria. What’s more, it was a gorgeous…