Tag Archives: Cabernet Sauvignon
It’s a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead
It’s a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead I just saw the Brix number’s posted on the Bingham Family Vineyards website (actually a link from their Twitter post @BinghamVineyard of 8:29 am this morning) for the wine grapes that are still hanging on their vines. See summary below [...]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Claret
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Claret A widely used wine term meaning, in most countries except England, a light red wine. However, in England and as used by many wine aficionados, the word traditionally refers to deep, red-purple Bordeaux wine. More recently, this term has been expanded to include similar hearty red wines produced elsewhere [...]
Shout Out to Texas Wineries that Garnered Medals at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition
Shout Out to Texas Wineries that Garnered Medals at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition The 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest, most influential international wine competition in America, was judged by a prestigious panel of nationally recognized wine experts. Judging was based on a blind, consensual procedure, ensuring competitive integrity as [...]
What’s with Wines from Ste. Genevieve: They’re Enjoyable, Inexpensive, Medal Winning and Good with Summertime Fare
What’s with Wines from Ste. Genevieve: They’re Enjoyable, Inexpensive, Medal Winning and Good with Summertime Fare Wine people give lots of play to finding the absolute best wine possible. However, I recently read a series of consumer comments on a major wine website on the wines from Ste. Genevieve Winery in Fort Stockton, Texas…. “Even [...]
Cowboys, Cabernet and More at the Bush Presidential Library
Cowboys, Cabernet and More at the Bush Presidential Library I drove up from Houston to College Station, Texas, as a hazy, yellow sunset burned ahead in the sky, masked only by a few wisps of periwinkle clouds. The roadside fields were lush with greens of every shade, made so by the recent and frequent episodes [...]
