Mark Penna Departs Texas to Give a Helping Hand in God’s Vineyard Mark Penna, a long Texas viticulturalist and winemaker passed this week after a bout with brain cancer. As reported by Addie Broyles on […]
They’re Back! CapRock Wines are in Distribution Again. I made my usually “run” to Spec’s Smith Street store in Houston earlier this week and found and interesting surprise. In the store’s Texas wine “section” [and […]
Texas Hill Country (Wine Country) Pictorial (featuring the photos of Houston-based photographer, James Skogsberg) About a month ago, my wife and I had friends Jim and Lillian Skogsberg out for a visit to our Hill […]
Messina Hof Hill Country Grand Opening: Of Tractors, Terroir and a Taste of 1984 It was a grand day yesterday on the Fredericksburg Route 290 Wine Trail with another Texas winery planting its footprint at […]
Up the Route 290 Wine Road to Torre di Pietra & Upping their Game, Too! Several weeks ago, I described the initial part of a short August road trip (click here) on the Fredericksburg Route […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Trebbiano of Texas The Trebbiano is a widely known wine grape varietal, but tends to be over-cropped and make rather neutral wines. However, it has the distinction of accounting for […]
Septempranillo Day II Table Blending: Tempranillo from Old World to New World and Back Again Just in case you were asleep under a rock this past week, September 1 was the 1st International Tempranillo Day […]
UPDATE: What I’m Doing for the First International Tempranillo Day – September 1, 2011 TAPAS recently announced the first International Tempranillo Day, September 1, 2011: A celebration of the Tempranillo grape with all its regional […]
Manifesto: Blanc Du Bois – Texas’s Own Wine (It’s Time to be Proud of It!) As Texas wineries and winegrowers move forward in the complicated and global world of wine, it should be more than […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: Sommeliers, Droughts, Wineries, Blanc Du Bois and More By Kim Pierce (Eats Blog / Dallas Morning News File this under “who knew he had such a hidden […]