Highlights
The Judgment of Houston Redux
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 […]
wine competition
Contest
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News (Grape Stomping and More) – August 24, 2009
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – August 24, 2009 Great Grape Stomp Off in New Braunfels, Texas (and Win Free Tickets) Hosted by the Texas Hill Country Wineries and Vintage Oaks at the […]
Conferences and Seminars
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom
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 […]
Great Places & People
Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times!
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 […]
Conferences and Seminars
GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners
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 […]
Conferences and Seminars
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Texas Twitter Taste-Off and More
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Texas Twitter Taste-Off and More DrinkLocalWine.com First-ever Conference Sold Out- Follow on Twitter (search #DLW09) DrinkLocalWine.com focuses on North American wine that isn’t made in California and the […]
history
Lineage of the Blanc du Bois Grape
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 […]
Great Places & People
What Wine Goes with the Fourth of July?
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 […]
Events
Iron Drink….Beer vs. Wine in Glass-to-Glass Combat!
Iron Drink….Beer vs. Wine in Glass-to-Glass Combat! Guest Blogger, Jane A. Nickles It’s Tuesday night and I’m in the kitchen of Ventana Restaurant at the Texas Culinary Academy. Forty people have assembled for the first […]
News
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – June 18, 2009
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – June 18, 2009 Texas Wine Hits the Books Texas Tech University will offer state’s first viticulture degree specialization Kasey Carpenter, June 11, 2009, Wine Spectator Texas Tech […]