Vintage bicycles in Verona, Italy - May 2026

I’ve decided that you can assess the quality of a dinner party from the drips of its candle wax. When those candles begin to pour with reckless abandon……then you know you’ve been to a GREAT dinner party.

Venturing through a vineyard provides invaluable insights that simply cannot be provided solely by book knowledge. While this is certainly true of any great wine regions on the planet, it became ever more apparent to me during my last trip to the Cinque Terre.