And You Thought That Texas Wines Were Only for the Moment! Earlier this week I perused an online article on the Dallas Morning New website titled, “The best Texas wines — all made from Texas […]
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 […]
Lessons Learned for Local Wine Movements from Colorado and Texas: DrinkLocalWine.com Time While working on my recently released book, The Wineslinger Chronicles, I had a discussion with Bran Johnson. He was a geology professor at […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blog Posts of November 2011 Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise Known as Lenoir Pecan Jam: A San Saba Celebration of Texas Wine and Pecan-Filled Foods Principal Factors in the Control […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Quandary – It is possible to not like a wine and accept that it is still a well-made wine? A small but significant percentage of wines exhibit “off-characters”. These can usually […]
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 […]
Manifesto: The Texas Wine Discussion Starts with Diurnal Temperature Swings, But Goes So Much Further How many times have you heard winery and/or vineyard reps say, “This vineyard location benefits from warm to hot days […]
A Story of the Three Texas Viogniers As I selected this title, I had in my mind the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears. You know, when Goldilocks got tired, she found one bed […]
Texas High Plains Vineyard Visit: A Relapse of “Coonawarra Envy” Those who have read my blog over its nearly three years of existence have read my periodic rants on the red sandy loam of the […]
Manifesto: Three Lessons for Texas Winemakers to Live By I stopped by for a visit with Kim McPherson, known as “K Mac” to some in Texas; he’s proprietor and winemaker at his McPherson Cellars winery […]