What I’m Drinking Tonight: Dotson ~ Cervantes, 2010 Gotas de Oro Fixed a pretty nice Mother’s Day dinner for my wife tonight, but the best was at the finish. We ended the meal with a […]
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 […]
What Are Your Favorite Texas Wines of All Time? Here’s Mine! Chef Terry Thompson-Anderson asked me in an email yesterday to name my top ten Texas wines of all time. I don’t know exactly why […]
Heard It Through The Grapevine: The Wineslinger Chronicles to debut Saturday, Feb. 18th at TWGGA Conference “With wine now made in all fifty states, the gift of the gods is on the way to becoming […]
Just When I Was About to Write-off Texas Chardonnay Just about every year I vow to delete the word Chardonnay from the Texas wine lexicon, I find a reason not to. It usually comes after […]
2011 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas – The Honorable Mentions As with any top ten wine list, there are many wines that are worthy of inclusion, but for one reason of another are left out. In […]
Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #2 – Next Five Wines I’ve already given you my standard disclaimer and warning in Installment #1 for my top ten wines of 2011. Basically, these […]
Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #1 – Five Wines As with most top ten lists, they need to be prefaced by a disclaimer: “In the eyes of the beholder”. I have […]
Fairhaven Vineyards TVM 2009 Lomanto: Texas Bred, Texas Savored It was truly one of the most incredible wine tastings…in Denison, Texas, at Vinita, the familial home of Thomas Volnay (T.V.) Munson. We had a host […]