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 […]
The Road Leads to The Gap: 2012 Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit I left our casita just outside Fredericksburg, Texas, this evening after an afternoon gust of cool north wind arrived with only a […]
Palle del Cacciatore – A Fitting Pairing for an Historic Texas Wine (Llano Estacado 1836) This story starts with a Texas wine with an interesting and historical name – 1836. It’s a date of significance in […]
Multitasking: Doc Russ, Texas Wineslinger Will Present #TXwines in the Champion Wine Garden On Tuesday, March 6 – Texas Trails, 6 – 7 p.m. and again at 7:30 – 8:30 p.m. me (Doc Russ, Texas […]
Old World Charm, New World Adventure – The Wines of Alamosa Wine Cellars The other day, after tasting a set of three wines from Alamosa Wine Cellars, I was reading in my Sotherby’s Wine Encyclopedia… […]
What do the New Acres of Texas Grapes Hold in Store for Wine Consumers? In my previous blog post (Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey), […]
Playing “Small Ball” at Napa Valley Vintner’s Collective In November, I had the pleasure to attend the introductory class day for the Master of Wine first year program. The full day session was held at […]
Fairhaven Vineyards TVM 2009 Lomanto: Texas Bred, Texas Savored It was truly one of the most incredible wine tastings…in Denison, Texas, at Vinita, the familial home of Thomas Volnay (T.V.) Munson. We had a host […]