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 […]
VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Wine Faults I have been doing a lot of blogging on wine quality lately. But, from your perspective as a wine drinker in an evolving wine producing region like Texas […]
CapRock Winery Starts New Chapter; Begins Crushing Grapes for Huge Texas Harvest CapRock projects its largest grape crush/press service to date in 2010. The initial days of harvest confirm that this will be an excellent year […]
Fall Creek Vineyard’s 2010 Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival – August 21 and 28, 2010 Don’t miss this year’s 21st Annual Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival at Fall Creek Vineyards (www.fcv.com) THIS Saturday, August 21st, […]
Write Off The Vine: Texas Wine News – August 17, 2010 Proposed Federal Alcohol Law Could Limit Texas Wineries’ Growth Local and state wine makers are calling on Congress to kibosh a proposed federal law […]
Kiepersol Estate: Terroir in the Glass and on the Plate…. A Truly Wonderful Combination to Behold Continued from “Traveling the Wine Roads of Northeast Texas Wine Country and the Grape Man of Texas”: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1995 — […]
In a recent blog, I posted my experiences as a limo chauffeured grape picker at the Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…” (See: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=2138). […]
Texas Farm and Ranch Show Features Educational Sessions, Tractor Pulls and Wine Tastings 2010 San Antonio International Farm and Ranch Show will have it all By Paul Schattenberg, Texas A&M The San Antonio International Farm […]
VintageTexas Cyclopedia of Wine: The Wine Grape Called Picpoul Pronounced “peek-pool” (also spelled Piquepoul), this variety of white wine grape is cultivated in the Southern Rhone and Languedoc regions of France (http://www.terroir-france.com/wine/regions.htm). It is known […]
Video: Winemaker Tastes True Vin de Terroir – If I could put dirt in the bottle… Terroir comes from the word terre “land”. It was originally a French term in wine, coffee and tea used […]