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🍾 Why Prosecco Keeps Losing to Champagne… Even When It Wins
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 immunity… Prosecco is the one actually running the drinking world. It just doesn’t…
🍷 The Wine Rule I Broke in Italy… and Why I’d Break It Again
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 versions of themselves. As if Italy is quietly scoring them. I watched a couple once in Veneto do a full…
The Wine Scandal That Almost Killed Italian Wine — And Why It Made It Better
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 stopped drinking wine. Not because of a bad harvest. Not because the prices got out of hand. Not because some influential critic…
The Complete Guide to Barolo — Italy’s Wine That Doesn’t Do Casual
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 for it. Barolo is not loud. It’s deliberate. People call it the king of wines, the wine of kings, and unusually for wine…
Who Pays $558,000 for a Bottle of Wine?
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 wine, and why? The answer takes us into a world of collectors, billionaires, history, and some of the rarest bottles ever…
Exploring the Health Benefits of Wine: What You Need to Know
Wine is one of those topics where everyone suddenly becomes a nutrition expert after two glasses. One person says it’s “good for the heart.”Another says it’s basically sugar in disguise.Someone else will confidently call it a “Mediterranean health secret” like it’s a prescription. And honestly, most of these takes are doing too much. So let’s strip it down. First things first: wine is not a…
Stop Calling Prosecco "Italian Champagne" — Here's What It Actually Is
Prosecco vs Champagne vs Spumante I have a small bone to pick, and it’s been sitting in my glass for a while now. Every time someone hands me a glass of Prosecco and calls it “Italian Champagne,” a tiny part of me dies. Not dramatically. Just a little. The way you die a little when someone says “could of” instead of “could have.” Years ago I wrote about the actual difference between sparkling…
