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Texas Wines Vs. The World

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Texas Wines Vs. The World

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.

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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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Events

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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Great Places & People

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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Great Places & People

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 Drinking

Wine Shoot Out at the O.K. "Wine" Corral

September 20, 2008 VintageTexas 4

Shoot Out at the O.K. “Wine” Corral One of the pleasures I have had, as a member of the Wine Society of Texas, is helping to organize interesting events involving wine and food. Because the […]

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Texas Wine Drinking

Some Like it Hot! Summertime & Spice

August 9, 2008 VintageTexas 3

  There is one thing that can generally be said about Texans (both native and those that have spent enough time and effort here to become naturalized). They generally like BOTH types of food: Hot […]

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Texas Wines Vs. The World

The Judgment of Houston – 3

June 25, 2008 VintageTexas 2

The Judgment of Houston – 3 In early May, a post competition taste-off of the top ten scoring Texas wines was held at the Grand Wine & Food Affair in Fort Bend County Texas. This […]

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Texas Wines Vs. The World

The Judgment of Houston – 2

June 23, 2008 VintageTexas 1

The major conclusion of the “Judgment of Houston” was readily evident in the rankings of the top scoring wines and how the top Texas wines placed with respect to the non-Texas ringers. The judges did […]

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Great Places & People

The Judgment of Houston – 1

June 22, 2008 VintageTexas 2

 The Judgment of Houston – 1 Rewind about thirty wine years to the mid-1970’s……France was king of wine and California was clamoring for credit. Then, on May 24, 1976, Harpers Wine and Spirit Weekly Magazine […]

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