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Texas Wine Drinking

This topic documents my experiences with tasting wine, especially Texas wine. But, I will also try to include other wines from around the world, particularly when they provide a good reference point or basis of comparison to something people know and love.

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LightCatcher Winery: A Touch a Magic

October 18, 2008 VintageTexas 1

LightCatcher Winery: A Touch a Wine Magic From the awards LightCatcher’s co-owner and winemaker, Caris Turpen, has garnered in her short winemaking career, one has to say that she is doing something right. Is it […]

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Texas Wine Drinking

Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting

October 15, 2008 VintageTexas 6

Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting While at the winery, I spied this bottle of the award winning 2002 Barking Rocks, Newsom Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon still sporting its gold medal. This must have been a omen […]

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Hark! Hark! The Rocks do Bark….

October 14, 2008 VintageTexas 1

Hark! Hark! The Rocks do Bark. The winemakers have come to town. This aberration of the old 16th century English poem my Mother taught me as a child was going through my mind as I […]

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Events

What Texas Wine Goes with the "Big Apple"

October 12, 2008 VintageTexas 4

What Texas Wine Goes with the “Big Apple” It was a brisk fall evening in Manhattan when we arrived at Trio Restaurant and Wine Bar. I had arrived in the “Big Apple”  the previous day to […]

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Drink Texas…Save "Food Miles"

October 9, 2008 VintageTexas 10

Drink Texas…Save “Food Miles” gives a new meaning to the saying…”Drink Responsibly”. After a prolonged period of consistently low oil prices, we are now facing a new situation – an age where companies and countries […]

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Texas Wineries go Mainstream…Can it be?

October 5, 2008 VintageTexas 0

Robert Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide Features Texas Wines The recently released 7th edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide has added a new chapter “East of the West Coast”. This chapter covers wines from all states […]

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Bloomberg.com Recognizes Texas Wines

October 4, 2008 VintageTexas 0

Texas Wineries Grow Up, Beat the Heat, Seek Their Own Styles Review by John Mariani Bloomberg.com — Before you start scratching your head over the idea that Texas even makes wine, consider these stats: Texas […]

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Old World, New World Texas Wines (Part 2)

October 3, 2008 VintageTexas 0

Torre di Pietra – New World Texas From Sisterdale, I headed north to find Torre di Pietra (www.texashillcountrywine.com). Its name “Tower of Stone” in Italian conjures up visions of an old world Italian monastery perched […]

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Old World, New World Texas Wines (Part 1)

October 2, 2008 VintageTexas 4

Old World, New World Texas Wines (Part 1) For all its undeniable charm, the Texas Hill Country on the outskirts of Austin and San Antonio, is a ‘slice of heaven’. In just over a decade, […]

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Texas Wine Quiz #1: Who knows their Texas wines?

September 28, 2008 VintageTexas 4

Texas Wine Quiz #1: Who knows their Texas wines?   How do you rate your knowledge of Texas wineries, winemaking and grapes growing? Test yourself with this fun and challenging quiz. Try not to Google […]

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