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The Hottest Stories in Texas Wine – Summer 2025

September 12, 2025 admin 0

The hottest stories in Texas wine this month focus on the industry’s continued growth, it new and unique wineries, international alliances, innovation promoting Texas terroir, legal wins, and the successful harvests in 2024 and 2025. […]

Tannat

The Wineslinger Chronicles: I Just Finished My Last Bottle of Texas Heritage Vineyard 2020 Estate Tannat, But I’m Happy!

September 1, 2025 admin 0

Texas Heritage Vineyard’s Tannat has a complexity of the aromas, flavors and characteristics that create a very memorable tasting experience. These include blackberry, plum, and black raspberry, often complemented by rustic aged notes with hints of baking spice, cocoa and leather. […]

Aglianico

The Wineslinger Chronicles: On “the road less traveled”, Texas Touriga and Aglianico will bring you happiness

August 25, 2025 admin 0

Texas wine appreciation is encouraging individuality, embrace uncertainty, and seek growth and discovery of something that can be both different and unexpectedly good. […]

Petite Sirah

Texas Wineslinger is in Georgia Now, But Still Drinking Texas Wine

July 2, 2025 admin 0

First off, believe it or not, I’m still drinking Texas wine, albeit in Georgia. Now from outside the state, I’m not finding Texas wines available in retail in the Metro Atlanta area. […]

Bordeaux

Wine-Food Pairing Class at Cabernet Grill: Texas Terroir Versus the Classic Rules of Wine and Food Pairing – It’s Time We Make Our Own Rules!

September 3, 2024 admin 0

If you have not already enjoyed dinner at Chef Ross Burtwell’s Cabernet Grill Restaurant, it’s something that you really need to get on your calendar for your next visit to Fredericksburg, Texas. It encompasses luscious […]

Great Places & People

Under New Ownership, Longtime Texas Hills Vineyard Introduces New Wines and Wine Clubs

August 15, 2024 admin 0

Text and photos below provided by Kristen O’Brien, Public Relations Manager Big Thirst Marketing: Texas Hills Vineyard, originally founded by Gary and Kathy Gilstrap in 1995, was purchased by entrepreneurial brothers Jim and John Mueller […]

grape growing

Winemaker Van Johnson of Wedding Oak Winery Gives His “Inside Perspective” on Harvest 2024

August 15, 2024 admin 0

Comments below from Wedding Oak Winery’s winemaker Van Johnson were provided by, Jennifer Swanson, Public Relations Manager, BIG THIRST MARKETING: The 2024 wine harvest season is underway for Wedding Oak Winery in Texas, and we’re […]

Blind Tasting

Sparkling Wines of Summer: The Texas Hill Country Wineries Hold a Respectable Place in the World of Sparkling Wines – Blind Tasting Panel Results… “Texas Takes on All Comers!”

August 2, 2024 admin 0

Texas history is rife with tales and legends, and some even indicate a special place for Champagne, the classic French sparkling wine. But, it is sometimes hard to know the difference between historical fact and […]

Beer Tasting

2024 Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival Badges Go On Sales Tomorrow (Wednesday 7/31/24)

July 30, 2024 admin 0

The Reimagined Event Will Offer Enhanced Local Culinary and Beverage Experiences in the Heart of the Texas Hill Country If you know the old movie line, “Badge! We don’t need no stinkin’ badge!”. Well, it […]

Albarino

Newsom Vineyards: Meetup with an Old Friend in Comfort, Texas

July 19, 2024 admin 0

A couple weeks ago, I was driving through Comfort, Texas, and to my left I saw an old friend. It was a friend that I first met in 2008 at the Newsom family’s Rock’n-N B&B […]

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