Thanks to everyone who came out to our tastings and seminars yesterday at Taste of Italy in Houston! That was a blast. I am so fortunate to live in such a tight-knit community of supportive food and wine professionals. Grazie di cuore…

My buddy Flavio Geretto and I will be pouring Villa Sandi Cartizze tomorrow in Chicago at the Gambero Rosso Tre Bicchieri event.

Please join us if you’re in town (details here).

And if you can’t make to the Gambero, ping me and we’ll connect at Wieners Circle, one of my favorite hotdog stands in Chicago, one of my favorite cities in the world and the place where I was born.

From there we head to New York for Gambero on Friday.

And although I won’t be pouring, I will be hanging out and tasting at the Slow Wine tastings in San Francisco and Portland next week (details here).

Please join me!

If you’ve never heard of or been to Weiners Circle, check out the Wiki: it’s a truly unique Amercana culinary destination (I could write a doctoral thesis about this place). That’s me, above, enjoying a Weiners Circle chardog a few years ago. I’ll be there on the late side… Ping me!