Since 1999 she's been frequently traveling to Piedmont as she fell in love with the land, the food, the wine culture and the people who make it. She is the author of The Wine Families, a weekly column on the Vail Daily and her current project is Le Donne di Piemonte or Piedmont Women, a book about wine-making women of the Langhe-Roero wine disctrict in Piedmont.