VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: What do Sicily and Texas Have in Common? Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean islands, is one of the top three wine regions of Italy. Historically, its most famous wine […]
2010 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas: Installment #2 Llano Estacado, Viviana, 2009 I tasted this wine at a Texas wine dinner at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station and once more since […]
Want a Real Texas Wine and Wine Country Experience? Try the Gulf Coast In 2010, the total producing acres of grape vines in the Texas Gulf Coast region reached 44 for Blanc du Bois (white […]
2010 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas: Installment #1 In 2010, I traveled more of the state and tasted more Texas wines than in any previous year. Therefore, this year I’ve had a hard time […]
Images of the Texas Vintage of 2010: A Pictorial January 2010: The influence of the El Nino brought a hard winter chill put the vines into a deep sleep at Brushy Creek Vineyards. February 2010: Visit […]
Five Things I’ve Learned about Napa Valley Wines That Apply to Texas Wines Several weeks ago I attended the Napa Valley traveling road show that came through Houston, Texas. It was sponsored by Napa Valley […]
Exciting Times at CapRock Winery: Glazer’s to Distribute; Will Use as Much Texas Grapes as Possible Most of you remember the see-saw situation that occurred this past summer on the Texas High Plains with the […]
Write Off The Vine: Texas Wine News – November 9, 2010 Big Red Fundraiser at Charlie Palmer’s Benefits North Texas Food Bank by Andrew Chalk (Sidedish) Charlie Palmer’s at The Joule held a major wine […]
Finally, It’s Time for Some Corroboration of My Prognostication on Tex-Med Wines I hate to say I told you so, but going way back to one of my first major articles about Texas wines, I […]
Sandstone Cellars: Seventh Heaven Alone on a Saturday evening, my reaction to Sandstone Cellars VII 2009, a dark red-black wine came slowly. I had time to decant the wine and allow it to open at […]