Results of and international wine competition including a blind tasting and scoring of Texas wines and wines from California, France, New Zealand, and more. The results determined the Top Ten scoring Texas wines.
If I Was Appointed the Texas Wine Czar I would do the following ten things to promote Texas wines: 1. Annex a state that had at least 10,000 acres of quality producing grape vine to erase […]
What better way to appreciate wine and food in Texas but through a common appreciation of dogs. To be specific, last night’s Texas wine and food experience would not have happened but for such a situation. A WOW evening with a private chef is something that really get used to, and fine Texas wine to boot! […]
Calling All Texas Bloggers – Write about a Texas Wine During Regional Wine Week What to do for an encore after the overwhelmingly successful first regional wine week last October: www.drinklocalwine.com/regional-wine-week-2008.html and the Go Texan […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Wine Tweets Edition October 6, 2009 The following items were obtained monitoring the Twitter Feed (www.Twitter.com) for Tweets tagged with “Texas Wine” or “TXwine”….Suggestion: Try TweetDeck to […]
Wines of Barking Rocks Winery: Hard Scrabble Country, Full-Bodied Wine Safe and secure from this year’s searing summer heat, I was able to relax with my pen and paper in hand and open three bottles […]
Looking at the World through a Glass of Rosé Looking around this place, it has characteristics like many places on the Texas Gulf Coast: Wind-blown palm trees, blooming bougainvillea, and cadres of dogs on leash […]
The Judgment of Houston Redux With all of the talk about our recent Drink Local Wine Conference and Texas Twitter Taste-Off, I have had many emails that ask about other times that Texas wines have […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]
Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times! And More Winners (Silver Award Wines) I can’t take credit for the line “Taste, Tweet, Repeat”, but those were the instructions I gave to the assembled […]
GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners The byline for the blog today is “Syrah between my keys”…. The first GO TEXAN (www.GoTexanwine.org) Twitter Taste-Off organized and moderated for (www.DrinkLocalWine.com) by VintageTexas was held Saturday […]