, The Wine Novice Several weeks ago, I published the final exam questions for the Vino Rosso Italian Wine seminar I presented to students at the Nesmith House. I purposely left out the answers, but several readers — rather annoyed — complained. As I said at the time, if you want to learn about Italian […]

, The Wine Novice Thanksgiving is truly an all-American holiday and, naturally, the pairing of food and wine should be all-American too. At least that’s what I used to think. Not anymore. We live in a melting pot of a nation, so why shouldn’t the holiday dinner table feature a melting pot of wines? With […]

, The Wine Novice Did Thanksgiving just sneak up on us this year? I don’t know about you, but I’m off by a week. To me, Thanksgiving always seemed to fall on the last Thursday of November but this year it arrives a week early — on Nov. 22. Whatever, it’s time for the annual […]

, The Wine Novice When you think of the world’s great wine regions of the world, no one is going to jump up and shout “Umbria.” It’s neither No. 1 or for that matter No. 100. Yet it’s a gem of an undiscovered place. Umbria is central and southern Italy’s only landlocked region, bordered entirely […]