Jeremy Parzen
wine media consultant

In a rare interview with a major mainstream media outlet this week, Angelo Gaja shares a ray of light that he sees in the fog of tariff war. (The interview came to my attention via a post by the excellent… Continue reading

A few weeks ago, while pouring and speaking for Abruzzo wines at the Slow Wine Guide tasting in Washington D.C., I had the opportunity to taste with Erlinda Doherty, above. She’s a D.C.-based lobbyist and sommelier whose consulting business is… Continue reading

I’ve always said that Italian wine is my signora and French wine is my mistress. I’m a huge Francophile and even played in a French band! So it was all the more thrilling to me that the Union des Vins… Continue reading

For today’s post, I have copied and pasted the morning’s communiqué from the U.S. Wine Trade Alliance. Be sure to sign up for their email newsletter for updates and breaking news about tariffs. For what it’s worth, the more calls… Continue reading

This year’s trade fair season has just begun. Thousands of Italian wine professionals have been attending ProWein in Germany over the weekend. Vinitaly, our industry’s main event, and the satellite progressive fairs are coming up in a few weeks. In… Continue reading

“Coraggio a tutti noi!” was the last message received yesterday before my phone was silenced last night. “Stay strong, everyone!” Italian wine people on both sides of the Atlantic are freaking out after Trump’s post announcing looming 200 percent tariffs… Continue reading

Giving a huge shout-out this morning to my friend Sarah Phillips (above). She is one of the best U.S.-based wine writers right now imho and she is currently studying to become an MW. Her work first came to my attention… Continue reading

It’s a scary time to be shipping Italian wine from Europe these days. No one knows when or to what extent the U.S. government will impose tariffs on European goods, although most expect that the tax is inevitable. With the… Continue reading