Category Archives: Texas Wine Drinking
Texas Twitter Tales – Notes on Texas Wines from the World of Social Media
Texas Twitter Tales – Notes on Texas Wines from the World of Social Media Its good to see how many people are using the hashtag #TXwine to tag their tweets…. For those of you not tweeting about your Texas wine experiences (tourists, consumers, winemakers, growers), here are some examples of how it works. Twitter is [...]
VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vintage Charts
VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vintage Charts Vintage refers to the annual grape harvest and to the wine made from those grapes. In general, every year is a vintage year and all wines are vintage wines except if they are made with a blend of grapes from more than one vintage. The concept of vintage is [...]
Most Popular Blog Posts in August 2010 on VintageTexas
Most Popular Blog Posts in August 2010 on VintageTexas What Texas Wine Goes with the “Big Apple” The Wine in Spain Comes Mainly with the Cuisine – 1 Texas’ Self-Proclaimed Wine Czar Speaks: “What’s Good for Languedoc, is Good for Texas. It’s Time for TxQA” Fall Creek Vineyard’s 2010 Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival – [...]
In Texas, 2010 is Stacking Up to be the “Vintage of the Century”
In Texas, 2010 is Stacking Up to be the “Vintage of the Century” Texan winegrowers have been so shell shocked over the past several years, it seems like nobody wants to talk about the way things are going in the 2010 Vintage…..afraid to jinx things, perhaps. For the past several years, it has been combinations [...]
Becker Vineyards 2009 Provençal Rosé: Dry and Pink Soothes the Scorch of Summertime Heat
Becker Vineyards 2009 Provençal Rosé: Dry and Pink Soothes the Scorch of Summertime Heat This year, we got through July with nary a temperature above ninety-five. But then, August came with a fiery flourish that seemed straight from the dominion of Hades, stoking up the temperatures up to the century mark and beyond. I was [...]
