Black Spanish
Black Spanish (Lenoir, Jacquez) Update: A Conundrum Still Persists – Please Help Solve the Mystery
This blog post calls into question some remaining loose ends in the Black Spanish story. […]
Local wine
Cabernet Sauvignon
Bending Branch Tasting Stop – Part 2: More New Stuff… Tasting Texas’s First Official Ice Wine and Petit Manseng
Why was I not surprised when Bending Branch Winery owner Dr. Robert Young, known by many as simply Dr. Bob, invited me to stop by for a tasting of wine he said, ”was made from […]
Events
Sign up Now for the Hill Country Wineries Spring 2023 Wine & Wildflower Journey – Self-Guided Passport Event – March 27 to April 21
Participants can visit up to four wineries per day and receive a 15% discount on three bottle purchases. […]
grape growing
Gulf Coast Tasting Stop at Newsom Vineyards at The Empty Glass, Tomball Depot: Part 1 – Some Excellent New ‘White’ Wines
When I think of Newsom Vineyards, my first thought is of well-structured red wines. On this tasting stop at the Newsom Vineyards tasting room in Tomball (104 Market Street), I did taste some excellent reds […]
Blanc Du Bois
Pleasant Hill Winery Closes: Owners Bob and Jeanne Cottle Set Sights on Retirement, and (for Bob) Sailing the Loop
Through the years, Bob and Jeanne were a team in the tasting room, appearing at wine and grape growing meetings, pouring wine at festivals, and submitting wines to competition. In April 2022, Pleasant Hill Winery celebrated its 25th Anniversary as the oldest modern-day winery in Washington County. […]
Events
New in April 2023: The Specialist of Texas Wine Advanced Certification Course (Level 2) – “The Deep Dive” – Register Now!
Lead photo – Dr. Bob Young, owner Bending Branch Winery. The Advanced Course extends the series of classes that were initiated in Level 1 but features more in-depth information on the wine regions of Texas, their characteristics, and their unique wines and styles. Your instructor, who is also the course developer, is Dr. Russ Kane of VintageTexas.com. […]
Blanc de Noir
Randy Hester Does it Again: Blanc de Noir, West Texas… an Especially Fine Wine
Blanc de noir is a white wine made from a red grape, a technique you see all the time with Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in Champagne, where base wines are blended in the creation of a single wine. It is more unusual when a winemaker decides to make a blanc de noir as a still wine. […]
Black Spanish
Ode to the #1 White Grape in Texas, Blanc Du Bois and the Five Other Things I Learned at the Gulf Coast Winegrowers 2023 Watson Field Day
It was an all-day technical program followed by an afternoon tasting of some of the Texas Gulf Coast area’s wines. […]
Cabernet Sauvignon
Texas Fine Wine Tasting Stop: Spicewood Vineyards 2019 “The Independence” – Every Good Wine Needs a Good Story and this Wine has One!
Ron said, “Everybody was saying ’You can’t do Cabernet. You can’t do Bordeaux fruit. You just can’t do it here in Texas.’ We took this on as a challenge. […]
Food and Wine
Texas Fine Wine Tasting Stop: What Wine with Pizza? Texas Wine Drinkers Say Tempranillo… So, Try Duchman Winery’s Salt Lick Tempranillo
I poured myself a glass of Duchman’s Salt Lick Vineyard 2016 Tempranillo and fired up my new Ooni gas fired pizza oven […]