Texas Wines Earn High Marks: 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition Medal Results from the 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition at: http://www.txwines.org/competitions/lonestar_results.asp The rest of the story…… Last week, I blogged about my trek […]
Video: Texas Port-Style and Dessert Wines – The Perfect Ending but Possibly Much More In the sixth and final Texas wine webcast, Merrill Bonarrigo of the Messina Hof Winery in Bryan, Texas, discusses Port, […]
From Nuances in Arboreal Green to the Nuances of Wine My trip was from Houston to the Dallas – Fort Worth area and my destination was more specifically Grapevine where I will be sitting with others […]
Reflections on Drinking Local Wines If you think, we in Texas are alone in the battle to gain visibility and respectability for our local wines, check out these sites across America that highlight […]
Video: Black Spanish – The Mysterious Red Wine of Texas This video features a tasting of Black Spanish red wine with Franklin Howser owner of Dry Comal Creek Vineyards. Several months ago, I blogged about […]
All Texas Wines…All the Time The Third Annual Austin Wine Festival By Guest Blogger, Jane A. Nickles This past weekend – Memorial Day Monday and all – was three days of bliss for me and […]
Video: Tempranillo – The Wine of the Sun and the Good Texas Earth This next installment of the Texas wine video series features Jim Johnson, owner and winemaker at Alamosa Cellars in Bend, Texas on […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – May 21, 2009 Austin Wine Festival – Memorial Day Weekend A uniquely Austin 3-day Texas wine celebration – RAIN OR SHINE! Wineries from Lampasas to New Braunfels […]
Video: Texas Sangiovese, the Warm Climate Pinot Noir Sangiovese is universally acknowledged as one of the great grapes of Italy and is the principal grape used in producing Chianti in Tuscany. The grape normally produces […]
Grape Creek Vineyards Vintner Dinner at Chef Burtwell’s Cabernet Grill Texas Hill Country wines are rapidly becoming what can be referred to as “the whole deal, the real deal, and the big deal”; something similar […]