VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Clairette, Clairet, Claret & Clarete One of the things that often makes wine a field high on the geek-a-tude index is its plethora of wine terms and especially those that […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Botrytis Cinerea Could a rot by any other name, be so sweet? Only if it known by its other names: Pourriture Noble (in France) or Edelfaule (in Germany). In any […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News (Harvest 2012 Edition) The 2012 Texas Wine Harvest is Coming Fast: Both On Vine and Online Grape harvest time in Texas usually starts on or around July […]
The Wine Society of Texas Announces 2012 Scholarship Grant Program The WST will provide up to $4,000 in assistance for the education, internship or field study, and appreciation of wine The Wine Society of Texas […]
Texas Watermelon Thump, Cheese Clump, Chef Smash & Damn Good Wine at William Chris Vineyard Last Saturday evening I felt like High Society (or I should say, Hye Society) when I showed up at William […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Acidity Think of acidity and fruit, and your mind immediately goes to the tart and titillation of lemon juice. But, what would wine be without acidity? It would be a […]
Texsom 2012 “Be There or Be Square”: August 11-13, 2012 You may remember the line “Be there, or be square” from The Wiz, the modern-day version of the Wizard of Oz. Well, this line could […]
A Bit of Texas High Plains Wine Legacy: Staked Plains Winery Text from: Llano Estacado Website (click here). Photograph of bottle taken in the McPherson Cellars tasting room (May 2012). 1975: Llano Estacado Winery charted […]
Austin Food & Wine Fest Sunday, April 29th – What a Texas Wine Panel! A Gold Medal Line Up I’ll admit, when I was asked to assemble a Texas wine panel for the Austin Food […]
Small Scale Winemakers Symposium: May 5, 2012 in Cat Spring, Texas The Grape Growers Committee of Austin County will be sponsoring a Small Scale Wine Makers Symposium on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Cat […]