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Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom

August 21, 2009 VintageTexas 17

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 […]

Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times!

August 18, 2009 VintageTexas 6

Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times! And More Winners (Silver Award Wines) I can’t take credit for the line “Taste, Tweet, Repeat”, but those were the instructions I gave to the assembled […]

GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners

August 16, 2009 VintageTexas 4

GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners The byline for the blog today is “Syrah between my keys”…. The first GO TEXAN (www.GoTexanwine.org) Twitter Taste-Off organized and moderated for (www.DrinkLocalWine.com) by VintageTexas was held Saturday […]

Let the Tasting Begin at the Drink Local Wine Conference and Twitter Taste Off

August 14, 2009 VintageTexas 1

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 […]

Cowboys and Cabernet: Lone Star Wines Shine at California Conference

August 9, 2009 VintageTexas 1

At the end of the session, one gentleman who at first had been ultra-resistant to the whole idea of Texas Wines summed up the feelings of the crowd by asking, “Why don’t you just get Robert Parker (www.erobertparker.com) to rate these wines? That would get the word out, once and for all, about just how good Texas wines can be.” […]

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