The Texas Winemakers/Winery Owners Pledge (and Good for Other Local Wine States, Too) Some of you have seen the blog and reader comments over the past few days on CraveDFW (click here) on “For-Sale-in-Texas-Only” wine. […]
Dear Whole Foods Market, Please Remove Non-Texas Wine From Your Texas Wine Display [Redux] or, “Where are you Grover Norquist when you need a winery to sign a pledge?” Those of you that have read […]
Port-Style Wines: Not Just for Old Fogeys Anymore! My new Texas Wineslinger wine column on Lubbockonline.com went live tonight (click here). It was a bit of a free form narrative titled “Texas Has Many Ports […]
TAPAS Tempranillo Day 2012 – Tasting New World Tempranillos from Texas, California and Oregon According to TAPAS (Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society) it is officially Tempranillo Day – Thursday, November 8, 2012. I’m looking […]
What I’m Drinking Tonight: CapRock Winery Toscano Bianco It’s been a “hard” couple days. I flew over to New Orleans for a few meetings. Then, I “had” to have dinner at Galatoire’s on Bourbon Street: […]
Narin’s Bombay Brasserie Wine Dinner: It’s Time to Set Aside Some of the Old Rules, Get Some New When asked how does Indo-Asian wine pairing compare to the meat-dominated western approaches (e.g. red meat, red […]
What’s on Your Wine Labels: From Appellation to “For Sale in Texas Only” I get more emails about wine labeling than just about any topic. The questions can vary from….”What is the minimum amount of […]
Whitehall Lane Wine Dinner at Sullivan’s Steakhouse Houston: The Palate Dance I will have to acknowledge that for Whitehall Lane Winery presented last Thursday evening, the Frog’s Leap wine dinner at Sullivan’s Steakhouse in May […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]
Manifesto: To Texas Bloggers…Together We Are A Community Before I posted my comment to Jeff Cope’s near philosophic question (Wine Bloggers – Are We in a Competition?), I found the question he posed to be […]