Of all the celebrities in this series, Drew Barrymore might be the most honest one. Sting spent years perfecting biodynamic farming before anyone was allowed near his Tuscan estate. Jay-Z turned his wine brand into a calculated, nine-figure business move. Andrea Bocelli was literally born into 200 years of winemaking…
The lie we all agreed to believe There’s a polite fiction in the wine world that nobody really questions out loud. Champagne is “better.”Prosecco is “easier.” That’s the story. Clean. Simple. Wrong. Because if you strip away branding, price rituals, and the way people whisper “Champagne” like it has diplomatic…
There’s a specific look people arrive in Italy with. Not the “I’m on holiday” look. The “I must not mess this up” look. It shows up at restaurants first. Before the food. Before the wine. Before anyone has even opened a menu. They sit down and suddenly become extremely careful…
I have been living in Italy for years now. I drink Italian wine regularly, I write about it obsessively, and I genuinely believe it is some of the finest wine on earth. And I had absolutely no idea this happened until I started digging. In the spring of 1986, Italy…
There are wines you drink. And then there is Barolo — the kind of wine that doesn’t accept being ignored. You don’t open it on a random Tuesday. You don’t multitask with it. If you treat it like background wine, it responds accordingly: it shuts down and makes you work…
Let me tell you something about Prosecco that nobody in a fancy wine shop will ever admit. It doesn’t need a special occasion. It doesn’t need a reason. It doesn’t need a speech, a milestone, or a carefully chosen glass. Prosecco is the wine that shows up when you need…
Ask almost anyone how to pair wine with dinner and you’ll probably hear the same answer. Fish gets white wine. Meat gets red. Simple, neat, easy to remember. It’s also one of those rules that starts falling apart the moment you spend enough time eating in Italy. Not because Italians…
Most people hesitate before buying a $50 bottle of wine. Someone once spent $558,000. Not on a wine collection, not on a wine cellar. On a single bottle. The obvious question isn’t whether the wine was good. The real question is: who spends that much money on a bottle of…
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