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Joe’s Featured Wine: Frank Family Vineyards Zinfandel, Napa Valley, California 2015
$27.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 90 points – Wine Enthusiast 89% Zinfandel / 11% Petite

Paso Robles Wines
As prestige and costs continue to drive up the prices of Napa Valley wines, California wine lovers find these wines

A Tennis Legend: An Interview with Adriano Panatta
Adriano Panatta was one of the most talented and dynamic tennis players in the history of the game. In the

Margot Fonteyn: Celebrating the Life of the Last Great Ballerina
“A bird of beautiful plumage taking pleasure and exulting in its wings.” — British poet Sacheverell Sitwell’s description of Margot

The Rome Film Festival Debut 2006
Reporting to you all this week from the press room at the Cinema Festa Internazionale di Roma running from Friday

The Pursuit and Quagmire of Obtaining an Italian Drivers License
Probably the most convoluted and annoying Italian bureaucratic headache I’ve experienced so far was the process of obtaining my Italian

Slitti: A Tuscan Chocolate Tale
Head out west on the A11 autostrada from Florence, exit at Montecatini Terme and drive south to Monsummano. Eventually you’ll