de vino
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What’s the difference between an osteria and a trattoria? The answer lies in the wine.
A recent article in a high-profile food magazine got me thinking about how to define the difference between an “osteria” and a “trattoria.” Most Italians will tell you that while a trattoria (pronounced traht-toh-REE-ah) focuses on food, with wine as… Continue reading
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The Tell Me Bar in New Orleans filled me with hope for wine’s future.
Looking back on the last two decades of my career, it’s crazy to think about how much I owe to being in the right place at the right time. One of those moments was hanging out with Cory Cartwright at… Continue reading
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My favorite restaurant in Naples? You’ll find it at the gates of hell! Yes, literally, the gates of hell.
This let me crave, since near your grove the road To hell lies open, and the dark abode Which Acheron surrounds, th’ innavigable flood; Conduct me thro’ the regions void of light, And lead me longing to my father’s sight.… Continue reading
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Not just tariffs: the sinking dollar is threatening a broad swath of the wine industry.
Anecdotally, I’m hearing that many E.U. producers are choosing to skip major wine events in the U.S. this year. A medium-sized importer in the U.S. recently sent me the following note: The next big threat is the weakening of the… Continue reading
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Music and wine: Houston 4/27 (music), Austin 4/28, New Orleans 4/29, Charleston 5/1, Los Angeles 5/7.
Tariffs, schmariffs, it is the season again… Please join me this Sunday 4/27 as we rock out Emmit’s Place in southwest Houston where we live. We’ll be doing open mic for kids and adults from 2-4; at 4 local middle… Continue reading
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Spoiler alert: your grandfather didn’t know how to make wine. Wine speak needs a new voice. I think I found it.
Above: a natural wine dog at a natural winery in January. The day after I posted about the new wave of wine education and perception (“I have seen the future of wine education and Their name is Luca”), I received… Continue reading
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I have seen the future of wine education and Their name is Luca.
One of the most compelling data points I’ve heard all year is that alcohol sales in the U.S., including fine wine, have continued to grow at a steady rate since 2015. Despite all the claims to the contrary, people in… Continue reading
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Taste: Abruzzo and I go on the road later this month. And that’s not all…
From the department of “tariffs, schmariffs… the show must go on!” It’s that time of year again and I’m super geeked to hit the open road: Abruzzo and I are going on tour the last week of April. Monday, April… Continue reading
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VIDEO: my tariffs interview with Sapori del Piemonte (in Italian).
“It was an emotional interview,” wrote my longtime friend and colleague Filippo Larganà (above), editor of the widely read Sapori del Piemonte blog. My heartfelt thanks goes out to him for letting me appear on his vlog series about Vinitaly,… Continue reading
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Tariffs send shock waves through Italian wine community on both sides of the Atlantic.
Above: a rack of Italian wine in a retail shop in Tulsa, Oklahoma. First the good news: The new across-the-board 20 percent tariffs aimed at the E.U. are lower than once expected and nowhere near the 200 percent the U.S.… Continue reading
Jeremy Parzen 