Houston Uncorking Some Good Rodeo Wines with a Few Best Bites, Too For the past several years now, come mid-February, the best ticket in H-town has proven to be the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s, […]
Port-Style Wines: Not Just for Old Fogeys Anymore! My new Texas Wineslinger wine column on Lubbockonline.com went live tonight (click here). It was a bit of a free form narrative titled “Texas Has Many Ports […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – September 1, 2012 The Best Wine and Wine Makers in Texas By Ben Carpenter, TexanPost The long history of Texas wine begins in the 1600s with Spanish […]
What Texas Wines to Pair with the Deep Fried Food Finalists at the 2012 State Fair of Texas? CultureMap Houston broke the “big story” today about the finalists in the 2012 State Fair of Texas […]
Messina Hof Winery Harvesting: “More fun than I thought it would be!” I was recently part of a limo-driven labor force on route from Houston to Bryan, Texas, to participate in this year’s harvesting of […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]
It’s Now Official: Texas Wine is the Official Wine of the Texas Hamburger! Super-Size Your Texas Hamburger with a Glass of Texas Wine Calling all Texas wineries and Texas Hamburger lovers, too. According to “Hambassador” […]
Texas Watermelon Thump, Cheese Clump, Chef Smash & Damn Good Wine at William Chris Vineyard Last Saturday evening I felt like High Society (or I should say, Hye Society) when I showed up at William […]
Pappas Bros., Drew Hendricks MS and McPherson Cellars Bingham Family Vineyards Roussanne Featured in Wine Spectator Imagine my surprise when I opened my July 31, 2012 edition of my Wine Spectator expecting to see […]
Grand Local Tastes in Dallas’s Deep Ellum: Calais Winery The visit yesterday to Calais Winery, the small-batch, local winery in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district, was to sign books (The Wineslinger Chronicles), but the stars of […]