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Joe’s Featured Wine: Tuck Beckstoffer Wines, The Seventy-Five Wine Company Sauvignon Blanc, California 2015
$16.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 100% Sauvignon Blanc. Grapes from two vineyards one in Lake

Midnight in the Vineyard of Romanée-Conti
It is helpful to spend some time learning about wines that are benchmarks – those wines of the world that

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

Locked in Lucca
One weekend in October last year, I decided to visit Lucca. I thought I was long over due to visit

It’s Not Supposed to Snow in Tuscany!
No-no-no-no! This was not in the guidebook. This isn’t supposed to happen in Tuscany, but I kid you not. Snow