Texsom 2012: What a Tasting Opportunity… From Margaux to Mason County Texas The Sunday morning session began with a rush of servers, Sommeliers of all types with varying degrees of certification, pouring to over a […]
VintageTexas Wine Wiz Quiz: Know Your Spanish Wines 1. Spain is ranked where in wine production in the world? a. First b. Second c. Third d. Sixth 2. Which is NOT a Spainsh Wine Producing […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Clairette, Clairet, Claret & Clarete One of the things that often makes wine a field high on the geek-a-tude index is its plethora of wine terms and especially those that […]
What I’m Reading Tonight: Texas Monthly – Working Life Feature on Neal Newsom From my decade or more covering the Texas wine industry, I believe that there just couldn’t be a more deserving person for […]
Houston’s Finest: L’Olivier Hosts Château la Nerthe Tasting I jumped at the chance to sample the cuisine of acclaimed executive chef Olivier Ciesielski for Tony’s restaurant fame now in his own L’Olivier Restaurant & Bar […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Botrytis Cinerea Could a rot by any other name, be so sweet? Only if it known by its other names: Pourriture Noble (in France) or Edelfaule (in Germany). In any […]
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” […]
Haak Texas Madeira Tasting & Dinner: An Evening with the Maestro of Madeira Think Madeira is just for old people, or worse, just for cooking? Well, those that attended the Haak Winery Madeira Tasting and […]
Tasting Among Old Friends: 4.0 Cellars and a New Texas Wine Experience As I left my Texas Hill Country cottage, there was a recently unfamiliar sight: patches of sky reflected up from puddles on the […]
A Bit of Texas High Plains Wine Legacy: Staked Plains Winery Text from: Llano Estacado Website (click here). Photograph of bottle taken in the McPherson Cellars tasting room (May 2012). 1975: Llano Estacado Winery charted […]