Texsom 2012: What a Tasting Opportunity… From Margaux to Mason County Texas The Sunday morning session began with a rush of servers, Sommeliers of all types with varying degrees of certification, pouring to over a […]
Texsom 2012 Kick Off: It’s Got It All People started arriving for Texsom (The Texas Sommelier Conference) in Dallas yesterday evening. The air was hot, dry and still. But, as the morning session started the […]
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 […]
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 […]
Houston’s Finest: L’Olivier Hosts Château la Nerthe Tasting I jumped at the chance to sample the cuisine of acclaimed executive chef Olivier Ciesielski for Tony’s restaurant fame now in his own L’Olivier Restaurant & Bar […]
Texas Watermelon Thump, Cheese Clump, Chef Smash & Damn Good Wine at William Chris Vineyard Last Saturday evening I felt like High Society (or I should say, Hye Society) when I showed up at William […]
July 10th TXwine Twitter Tuesday: Share Your Texas Grape Harvest Stories and Pics Denise Clark (@DeniseClarkeTX), Jeff Cope (@TXwineLover) and I (@VintageTexas) hope you can join us for the next TXwine Twitter Tuesday at 7 […]
Haak Texas Madeira Tasting & Dinner: An Evening with the Maestro of Madeira Think Madeira is just for old people, or worse, just for cooking? Well, those that attended the Haak Winery Madeira Tasting and […]
Grand Local Tastes in Dallas’s Deep Ellum: Calais Winery The visit yesterday to Calais Winery, the small-batch, local winery in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district, was to sign books (The Wineslinger Chronicles), but the stars of […]
Texsom 2012 “Be There or Be Square”: August 11-13, 2012 You may remember the line “Be there, or be square” from The Wiz, the modern-day version of the Wizard of Oz. Well, this line could […]