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Off to the Wine Bloggers Conference

Off to the Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma We left yesterday for California and had the distinct pleasure to stay in Napa Valley at the home of our friends from Houston – Chuck and Lisa Reid. Their 5 acre vineyard of Cabernet Sauvignon is called Farmhouse Vineyard. Lisa, a local artist in Napa, (www.lisareid.com) shared her [...]

Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting

Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting While at the winery, I spied this bottle of the award winning 2002 Barking Rocks, Newsom Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon still sporting its gold medal. This must have been a omen of good tastes to come. Tiberia shared with me a bottle of his 2004 Sangiovese made with Newsom Vineyard fruit. This [...]

2008 GrapeFest People’s Choice Awards

22nd Annual GrapeFest People’s Choice Awards   Thousands of wine enthusiasts cast their votes for their preferred Texas wines at this year’s 22nd Annual GrapeFest during the Chesapeake Energy People’s Choice Wine Tasting Classic. The largest consumer-judged wine competition in the nation featured 126 Texas wines from 36 of the state’s wineries. The results are [...]

Answers to Texas Wine Quiz #1

Evidently some of you missed my posting of the results from the “Who Knows Their Texas Wines” Quiz (http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=40) as comments at the bottom of the quiz posting.  Sorry for the confusion. Well, here goes…. get ready to score your results. ANSWERS: 1. Put the following Texas viticultural regions in geographical order from North to South. [...]

Last Call: Come Join the Texas Restaurant Round-Up

Join the GO TEXAN Restraurant Round Up What: 1st Annual Restaurant Texas Dine-Out Where: In a city near you (See links below) When: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkOu186FFs Details: GO TEXAN Restaurant Round-Up serves locally produced food, wine and helps local food banks AUSTIN – In an effort to help local food banks serve [...]