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There's a vino for that.

Italy makes more wine, from more grapes, than any country on earth — and has a centuries-old gift for making itself just complicated enough to keep most people from finding it. Not arrogance. Just a country more interested in the wine than the marketing. I'm here to close that distance.

French classroom painting showing a child wearing a dunce cap, 1880

DUMB MONEY WINES

Wall Street has meme stocks. Wine has Château Margaux and cult Napa Cab. The herd has been doing this for decades. We just never called it what it is.

Ottin Torrette Superiore × Grilled Salmon

Ottin Torrette Superiore × Grilled Salmon

— A haiku — Grill char, alpine fruit Acid threads the salmon's fat Mountains meet the sea A mountain red with grilled salmon. Trust me. The 2022 Ottin Torrette Superiore comes from the Alps. It's made from Petit Rouge, a grape that grows almost nowhere else. Cranberry. Dried

The Walk After

The Walk After

I cooked salmon last night. Grilled it hard, charred the skin, poured a mountain red from the Alps that had no business being as good as it was. Serious eats. Then I did the thing I always do, mostly out of self-preservation. I put on my shoes and went