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.
I’m All Ears about Texas Wines and I am Giving Away Prizes NOTE: The deadline to comment to this blog is August 2, 2009. Don’t delay. You can win a free private tour and tasting […]
Lineage of the Blanc du Bois Grape Following my previous blog on harvesting the Blanc du Bois at Union Chappel Vineyards in Fulshear, Texas, “Ronebofh” on the LiveJournal wine community (http://community.livejournal.com/wine) requested some additional information on […]
What Wine Goes with the Fourth of July? On Saturday morning while watching our Fourth of July parade in Fredericksburg, Texas, I was wondering what wine would be appropriate for our national birthday party. In […]
Texas Wines Earn High Marks: 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition Medal Results from the 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition at: http://www.txwines.org/competitions/lonestar_results.asp The rest of the story…… Last week, I blogged about my trek […]
Video: Texas Port-Style and Dessert Wines – The Perfect Ending but Possibly Much More In the sixth and final Texas wine webcast, Merrill Bonarrigo of the Messina Hof Winery in Bryan, Texas, discusses Port, […]
From Nuances in Arboreal Green to the Nuances of Wine My trip was from Houston to the Dallas – Fort Worth area and my destination was more specifically Grapevine where I will be sitting with others […]
Video: Tempranillo – The Wine of the Sun and the Good Texas Earth This next installment of the Texas wine video series features Jim Johnson, owner and winemaker at Alamosa Cellars in Bend, Texas on […]
Video: Texas Sangiovese, the Warm Climate Pinot Noir Sangiovese is universally acknowledged as one of the great grapes of Italy and is the principal grape used in producing Chianti in Tuscany. The grape normally produces […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 1 The Beginnings Eons ago its genesis was in a vast and desolate inland sea predating human consciousness; a wet and hostile place. At an […]
Best of VintageTexas: 2009 Highlights (so far) Drinking a Bit of Texas History “As Texans and settler transplants have realized for over the past hundred and fifty years, parts of Texas have been this county’s last […]