Pedernales Cellars: Texas Wine Riding a Wave of Success On a damp hazy summer morning, I trekked out from our hill country cottage and was between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on a road that’s taken […]
Messina Hof Winery Harvesting: “More fun than I thought it would be!” I was recently part of a limo-driven labor force on route from Houston to Bryan, Texas, to participate in this year’s harvesting of […]
What’s on Your Wine Labels: From Appellation to “For Sale in Texas Only” I get more emails about wine labeling than just about any topic. The questions can vary from….”What is the minimum amount of […]
CapRock Winery Says “In Our Time of Need, Lubbock Should Drink Clean, Safe Texas Wine” According to Phillip Anderson, General Manager of Lubbock’s CapRock Winery, “I went out to lunch today & noticed that the […]
Guest Blog: Visual Wine Tasting (The Baker Method) by Jim Baker (TXwineGeek) Some of you may have already seen, the original and follow up posts on “Visual Tasting” by Jim Baker who has the TXwineGeek […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Manifesto: To Texas Bloggers…Together We Are A Community Before I posted my comment to Jeff Cope’s near philosophic question (Wine Bloggers – Are We in a Competition?), I found the question he posed to be […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News (Harvest 2012 Edition) The 2012 Texas Wine Harvest is Coming Fast: Both On Vine and Online Grape harvest time in Texas usually starts on or around July […]