Some of you know him from Boulder Burgundy Festival where he’s been the event’s official blogger for more than a decade.
After completing his Ph.D. in Italian literature at U.C.L.A. in the late 90s, the San Diego native moved to New York City where he shifted his focus to food and wine. By 2005, University of California Press had published his translation of a 15th century Italian cookery book. And he had begun writing regularly for a wide range of food and wine mastheads, including La Cucina Italiana, Italy’s “National Geographic” of gastronomy.
But it was his (mostly) wine blog Do Bianchi, named after a Venetian expression meaning “two glasses of white wine,” that put him on the map of Italian wine experts in the U.S. In 2016, Wine and Spirits magazine named him as one of the country’s leading authorities on Italian wine.
Today, when he’s not teaching food and wine communications at the Slow Food University of Gastronomic Sciences in Piedmont, Italy, he lives in Houston with his wife Tracie (whom a lot of you know, too!), their two daughters, Georgia (10) and Lila Jane (8), and their two Chihuahuas.
Benanti Etna Bianco 2020
Marangona Chiaretto Riviera del Garda Classico Rosato 2021
Istine Chianti Classico 2019
Cerbaiona Sangiovese IGT 2019
We know you’ll enjoy chatting and tasting with our good friend.
Photo by Marcello Marengo.