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Joe’s Featured Wine: Mira Syrah Hyde Vineyard, Los Carneros, Napa Valley 2013
$53.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 100% Syrah. Aged for 18 months in French oak barrels

Joe’s Featured Wine: Marenco Moscato d’Asti Scrapona, Piedmont, Italy 2015
Marenco Moscato d’Asti Scrapona, Piedmont, Italy 2015 $18.99 at Crush Wine & Spirits in Bryant, Arkansas (AR) 100% Moscato Bianco

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

Carol Channing 1921-2019
With the passing this week of a legend of the theater stage, Carol Channing, at the age of 97, a

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