Grand Local Tastes in Dallas’s Deep Ellum: Calais Winery The visit yesterday to Calais Winery, the small-batch, local winery in Dallas’s Deep Ellum district, was to sign books (The Wineslinger Chronicles), but the stars of […]
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 […]
Tasting Among Old Friends: 4.0 Cellars and a New Texas Wine Experience As I left my Texas Hill Country cottage, there was a recently unfamiliar sight: patches of sky reflected up from puddles on the […]
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 […]
Swirl, Sip and Savor Texas Wines with Texas Sommeliers Sunday 11 AM at the Austin Food & Wine Festival “The Gold Medal Wines Of Texas Are Upon You” 11:00 – 11:45am Austin Food and Wine […]
Ahh! That’sa Nice. This is What The Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit is All About The morning started early under the indigo sky, over the red dirt and next to the lime green leaved […]
The Best Texas Wine Money Can’t Buy …and it’s not from Greece! I had dinner with friends last Saturday evening at Lucio’s on Taft in downtown Houston. They are a tremendous BYOB establishment ($5 corkage […]
Palle del Cacciatore – A Fitting Pairing for an Historic Texas Wine (Llano Estacado 1836) This story starts with a Texas wine with an interesting and historical name – 1836. It’s a date of significance in […]
Lessons Learned for Local Wine Movements from Colorado and Texas: DrinkLocalWine.com Time While working on my recently released book, The Wineslinger Chronicles, I had a discussion with Bran Johnson. He was a geology professor at […]