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Texas Fine Wine’s New Commemorative Video for their 10th Anniversary

March 4, 2024 admin 0

New winery videos and walkthrough tours express dedication to making world-class wines Texas Fine Wine, a first-of-its-kind marketing group of four Texas wineries that organized in 2014 to promote their wines and wineries collectively, is […]

Texas Hill Country Tasting Stop: No Longer Waiting for Verdot… It’s luscious slow ripening splendor has been found in Texas and Heath Family Brands!

January 7, 2024 admin 0

You may have heard of the play Waiting for Godot. It was written by Irish playwright Samuel Beckett. In this play, Beckett features two characters engage in seemingly unending hours in discussions and encounters while […]

Spring 2024 is a Good Time to Dig Deeper into Texas Wine: Three Live Tasting/Certification Classes by Dr. Russ Kane, “The Man Who Wrote the Book on Texas Wine”

January 1, 2024 admin 0

It’s 2024 and the 2023 holiday season is now in our rear view mirror. Maybe you found wine-appropriate gifts for all of your wine-living friends, family and associates, and yourself, or maybe you haven’t. Well, […]

All You Level 1 STW Grads Get Your Gold Pin Now: The Only Advanced Specialist of Texas Wine Certification There Is!

September 10, 2023 admin 0

“We’ve had a phenomenal response to my first Level 2 Advanced Specialist of Texas Wine Course offering and held live via Zoom this past April. Level 1 STW graduates came calling. This first advanced Level 2 class was sold out in less than a month.” […]

Fredericksburg’s Haversack Wine Company: The Ups and Downs of Marketing Wine and Legend

August 5, 2023 admin 0

He announced that his wine company had a partner, a California wine producer. The goal was to begin a brand merchandising program built around the “haversack” theme. What’s a haversack? Well, read further and you’ll find out. […]

Registration Last Call for What Students Call the “Simply Perfect” Specialist of Texas Wine Level 1 Class this September Live Via Zoom

July 10, 2023 admin 0

Want to know more about the Texas wine industry, history, its evolution and how to pick the best Texas wines? Well, now it is easier than ever to get certified as a Specialist of Texas […]

15th Anniversary for VintageTexas Blog, The Longest-Running Texas Wine Blog & Five of My Favorite Posts

July 5, 2023 admin 0

I made an interesting comparison between what I called our Texas red sandy loam over porous caliche limestone and the coveted red sandy loam and limestone found in the Australian Coonawarra wine region that they called “Terra Rossa”. Literally the next day from half the world away, I received a comment to my blog coming back at me from seasoned wine critic Philip White who has written for Australia’s major newspapers and many magazines worldwide. White said that I had a bad case of “Coonawarra Envy” […]

Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Trebbiano from Bingham Family Vineyards in Hye Hits the Spot

May 6, 2023 admin 0

In case you haven’t been keeping track of the fast-paced wine region called The Texas Hill Country AVA, you can easily miss what’s going on and where things are; this particularly includes winery tasting rooms. […]

Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Airis’Ele Vineyards 2021 Redlin – It’s Time to Discover Texas Dry Rose All Pretty in Pink

April 25, 2023 admin 0

Airis’Ele is a blending of two names: Airis comes from John Bernard’s side of the family, and Ele is derived from Chris’s maiden name Bendele … to become Airis’Ele. (pronounced Air-is-L). Now, let’s move on to the main story…the winery and the wine. […]

At The Edge of the Pedernales I Came to Find a Truly Fine and Rare Wine: English Newsom Cellars 2021 Texas High Plains Picardan

March 9, 2023 admin 0

Don’t know about Picardan? Don’t worry… just read on. Recently, we were staying at the Resort at Fredericksburg in a Tiny House B&B, one of many situated there, on the shore of the Pedernales just […]

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