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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 […]

Randy Hester Does it Again: Blanc de Noir, West Texas… an Especially Fine Wine

February 14, 2023 admin 0

Blanc de noir is a white wine made from a red grape, a technique you see all the time with Pinot Noir and Pinot Meunier in Champagne, where base wines are blended in the creation of a single wine. It is more unusual when a winemaker decides to make a blanc de noir as a still wine. […]

Last Call for Fall 2022 Specialist of Texas Wine Certification Class: Learn Texas Wine from the Man Who Wrote the Book on It!

August 18, 2022 admin 0

This is the original and best Texas wine course. It is taught by Dr. Russell Kane, award-winning author and longest tenured Texas wine writer. […]

Hill Country Tasting Tour Stop #2 – Hye Meadow Winery… Boooom!

April 21, 2022 admin 1

If you haven’t heard of or had the opportunity to taste Hye Meadow Winery’s 2017 Red Blend Boooom (Yep… with four ”o”s), there is no better reason to make a stop at the winery near […]

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