Pedernales Cellars Vermentino and Viognier: Found on My Mediterranean Isle of Texas – Update I recently sat down to taste two new white wines from the 2014 vintage, both from Pedernales Cellars. This winery has […]
2015 Houston Rodeo Uncorks The Best in Texas: Driftwood Estate Winery Longhorn Red 2012 Well, it’s official. The 2015 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition just released the results of their top award […]
A Texas Winemaker with a New Mission and Wine: Brock Estes, DANK, Johnny Rojo, a starter wine without training wheels! If you don’t know Brock Estes, it might be hard for you to make a […]
Eden Hill Vineyard: 2013 Dallas Morning News – Texsom Wine Competition Gold Medal from Where? You haven’t heard of this award winning Texas winery either? I will admit that my knowledge of Eden Hill Vineyard […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blogs (by Views) in September 2012 Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #1 – Five Wines VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vintage Charts Texas Wine: Is There Really Anything Behind […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blogs in August 2012 Wine Quiz #2 – Know your Italian Wines Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #1 – Five Wines Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise […]
Pedernales Cellars: Texas Wine Riding a Wave of Success On a damp hazy summer morning, I trekked out from our hill country cottage and was between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on a road that’s taken […]
Guest Blog: Visual Wine Tasting (The Baker Method) by Jim Baker (TXwineGeek) Some of you may have already seen, the original and follow up posts on “Visual Tasting” by Jim Baker who has the TXwineGeek […]
Haak Texas Madeira Tasting & Dinner: An Evening with the Maestro of Madeira Think Madeira is just for old people, or worse, just for cooking? Well, those that attended the Haak Winery Madeira Tasting and […]
Hilmy Cellars: New Kids on the Block. Clever Guy and Seriously Good Wines Several months ago now, I received an invitation from Erik Hilmy to do one of my first book signing event at his […]