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 […]
Tasting the Wines of the Ancients: Chateau Musar Day 2 of Texsom held in Dallas at the Four Seasons Resort Las Colinas was another blaze of palate-popping exploration; thirty-nine wines in all that again covered […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: CapRock Sweet Tempranillo – An Old Technique with a Texas Twist Natural wine aficionado, Alice Feiring, said, “First time I had a well-made wine from carbonic maceration…I was pretty charmed. […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blog Posts for 2011 (So Far) Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise Known as Lenoir Wine Consuming Texans, I Ask You…Will Texas Cut Off its Nose to Spite its Face? Some […]