A Comparative Tasting: Premium White Blends – Viviana, Alluvium Blanc and Conundrum Viviana – A wine alive and well with Texas heat… The hot days of Texas summer are upon us. What better thing to […]
“Texas Winegrowers” after Ten Years: Are we having fun yet! Guest Blog by Les Constable Texas Winegrowers List Owner Owner/Winemaker, Brushy Creek Vineyards www.brushycreekvineyards.com What were you doing ten years ago? How many wineries were […]
Reflections on Drinking Local Wines If you think, we in Texas are alone in the battle to gain visibility and respectability for our local wines, check out these sites across America that highlight […]
Video: Black Spanish – The Mysterious Red Wine of Texas This video features a tasting of Black Spanish red wine with Franklin Howser owner of Dry Comal Creek Vineyards. Several months ago, I blogged about […]
Video: Tempranillo – The Wine of the Sun and the Good Texas Earth This next installment of the Texas wine video series features Jim Johnson, owner and winemaker at Alamosa Cellars in Bend, Texas on […]
Video: Texas Sangiovese, the Warm Climate Pinot Noir Sangiovese is universally acknowledged as one of the great grapes of Italy and is the principal grape used in producing Chianti in Tuscany. The grape normally produces […]
Video: Viognier, Roussanne and Blanc du Bois: The Three Sisters of Texas Wines Ever think of Texas as a Chardonnay kind of place? I didn’t think so. It can be grown in Texas and even does […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 1 The Beginnings Eons ago its genesis was in a vast and desolate inland sea predating human consciousness; a wet and hostile place. At an […]
Best of VintageTexas: 2009 Highlights (so far) Drinking a Bit of Texas History “As Texans and settler transplants have realized for over the past hundred and fifty years, parts of Texas have been this county’s last […]
Wine Wiz Quiz – What do you know about the Argentine Mendoza Wine Growing Region? The Mendoza wine growing region of Argentina has many attributes similar to the Texas High Plains appellation. Let’s find […]