Cyclopedia of Wine
VintageTexas Cyclopedia of Wine: Do you know Graciano like I know Graciano?
Graciano brings with it a smoky perfume of fine sweet Cavendish pipe tobacco. […]
TXwine
Chenin Blanc
Rae Wilson: Wine for the People Comes to Houston’s Montrose Cheese and Wine
Rae Wilson is a young Austin wine business professional and winemaker with her wine brands – Dandy Rosé, Grower Project (since 2015, in collaboration with Lost Draw Cellars’ Andrew Sides) and La Valentía under the banner […]
grape growing
Why Do You Need To Be A Specialist of Texas Wine? So you can unapologetically share Texas wine with the world and know what you are doing!
The next Specialist of Texas Wine class from Doc Russ – Texas Wineslinger, and the Texas Wine School in Houston, Texas, on April 27, May 4, May 11 (with the exam on May 12) gives […]
Events
Rodeo Houston Uncorked Round-up 2022 Best Bites Competition Results
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo™ Combined Award-Winning Wines with Gourmet Dishes at the Rodeo Uncorked!® Roundup & Best Bites Competition Photo credit: Cassaro Wines Yesterday, the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo hosted a destination for […]
Cinsault
Know about Texas Cinsault? Let Randy Hester of C.L. Butaud help you.
My Grenache and Cinsault are similar, produced exactly the same way – old school, Rhone-style. […]
Food and Wine
Sangiovese Two-Ways: A Texas Terroir Tasting (Texas High Plains vs Hill Country)
If you were in France and talked terroir with winegrowers there – for example in Burgundy, Wedding Oak Winery Winemaker Seth Urbanek says, “They will tell you that Pinot Noir at the top of the […]
Food and Wine
Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green Location Leads the Way into Summer 2021: Part 1
The exciting news in Texas (and particularly in the greater Houston-area) is, Messina Hof Winery just opened a new winery location in Richmond called Messina Hof Harvest Green Winery & Kitchen. As the newest member of […]
Italian Wine
Duchman Winery Trebbiano: A Texas-Italian Quencher
The wildflowers are blooming in Texas. The days are definitely getting longer and hotter leading us to look around for wines that refresh us and quench our thirst. One of the varietal wines that is […]
grape growing
Roussanne – Texas’s Age Worthy White Grape
I just realized that I had acquired a decade’s worth of wine made from Roussanne, the acknowledged ageable white wine grape from the Rhone Valley region of France. However, my collection is different; all comes […]
Local wine
Texas Fine Wine Offers Special Wine Bundle for April 10th #OpenLocalWine Celebration
Texas Fine Wine is excited to announce a special Texas Fine Wine bundle for the national #OpenLocalWine celebration on Saturday, April 10. We will host a Texas Fine Wine Talk and Taste from 6-7 p.m. that night to talk about the […]