In search of Texas Terrior, I plan to travel, taste and talk to alot of people. I will try to document the encounters with great people I meet and experiences in places where I plan to linger.
A Trip to Flat Creek Estate Winery The morning was truly a wonderful Texas Hill country morning….70 degrees, clear and bone dry. I was in my car with the top open and trying to navigate for the first time with my new toy – a GPS. My starting point was…
The Flagstaff House Restaurant sits nestled on the mountain side at an elevation of 6,000 feet and was originally a cabin built in 1929. Frankly, I though that I had made a wrong turn. My Garmin kept indicating “Next Right”, but all I could see while rounding the curves…
Texas Icons – The Aulers of Fall Creek Vineyards Texas is noted for its icons (people, places and things). Its iconic people helped forge Texas into a unique spot in the Universe. This is particularly true when applied to the visionaries that fashioned Texas into the 5th largest wine producing state…
On a visit this past week to the Haak winery, my wife Delia and I had the occation to tour their expanding winery and facilities for concerts, weddings complete with an on-site kitchen and chef. My wife Delia and I tasted a selection of Haak wines with Raymond and Gladys.…
“Texas Bays are a magnificent resource, shallow and brackish and marshy-bordered and rich with life …. The flat land runs to the flat bays, and beyond the flat sandy islands is the blue flat Gulf.” – John Graves, in The Water Hustlers, 1971 The sandy Texas coastal region is…
The Judgment of Houston – 1 Rewind about thirty wine years to the mid-1970’s……France was king of wine and California was clamoring for credit. Then, on May 24, 1976, Harpers Wine and Spirit Weekly Magazine staged a double-blind tasting event that they called “The Great Cabernet Conundrum”. This competition involved…
