Four days without an Internet connection -- it's agony, folks. Try it, I dare you. The Blackberry is a godsend, but it's pretty hard to compose long and witty posts with your thumbs. You get your emails, check the NYT and site traffic (this is key). But the comfort and format to compose a brilliant post, ah no. So. Aside from lots of pictures of various Italian landscapes and winemakers, I will settle down at home and write some articles on interesting people and wines and places, including:
* Ferdinando and Mario Zanusso of I Clivi. You can see Slovenia from there! But there's more than that to recommend their long-lived vini naturali. Plus their comments on "oenologists."
* Pietro Cirio of Pianbello. Question: If you like Berlusconi, does that make you a bad person? A bad winemaker? It's a complicated world.
* Gianni Vergnano of Cascina Gilli, Freisameister.
* Profile of an American wine importer. Funny. But funny ha-ha or funny hhmmm? You caucus. You decide. It's what we call democracy.
And so much more. It's what we call Plenitude.
Could be worse, You could be here in the ice storm. Or working tax season....
PS - you and Ken have a new nephew from Rob & Emily.
Posted by: Richard | February 14, 2008 at 04:50 PM