Congrats to a Colorado Winemaker; A Tip of the Hat to a Colorado Restaurateur Last week I had the occasion to travel up to and out west of Denver. With the summer of 2009 nearly […]
Wines of Barking Rocks Winery: Hard Scrabble Country, Full-Bodied Wine Safe and secure from this year’s searing summer heat, I was able to relax with my pen and paper in hand and open three bottles […]
Barbaresco and Barolo, But Don’t Forget Dolcetto, Barbera and the Whites — — — — — New: See Rascal’s Travels: Hail Cesare in Piemonte at: http://rascalspalate.com/?p=21 — — — — — I could not remember […]
Texas Harvest Wine Trail Tuesday, September 1, 2009 by Ry @ Sotto Il Monte Vineyards “Saturday before last we went on the Texas Harvest Wine Trail – courtesy of Russ Kane at Vintage Texas and […]
Barolo & Barbaresco: Where the Nebbia and Nebbiolo Hang — — — — — New: See Rascal’s Travels: Hail Cesare in Piemonte at: http://rascalspalate.com/?p=21 — — — — — Heading east from Villefranche-Sur-Mer on the French […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]
Let the Tasting Begin at the Drink Local Wine Conference and Twitter Taste Off (#DLW09) Well, this first of its kind event made the Wall Street Journal. Today was the kick-off of the Drink Local Wine […]
Time to Saddle Up for the 2009 Harvest Wine Trail Win Tickets on This Year’s Hill Country Harvest Trail Two Weekends Aug 14-16 & 21-23 , 2009 The verve of the wine industry in The […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: July 23, 2009 [to comment click icon in upper right] Texas Wine Industry Continues to Grow – Not Just Another Harvest Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Todd Staples, […]
Grape Harvest Days are Here Again….in Texas! It’s July, it’s Texas and again it is time to start the grape harvest. Can it be? Compared to Texas, in most wine producing regions things happen […]