Manifesto: Blanc Du Bois – Texas’s Own Wine (It’s Time to be Proud of It!) As Texas wineries and winegrowers move forward in the complicated and global world of wine, it should be more than […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: Sommeliers, Droughts, Wineries, Blanc Du Bois and More By Kim Pierce (Eats Blog / Dallas Morning News File this under “who knew he had such a hidden […]
Video: Calais Winery in Dallas Deep Ellum Presses 2011 Newsom Vineyards Tempranillo (The Purple Stuff) Here is “The Purple Juice”. It’s Newsom Vineyards 2011 Tempranillo (Texas High Plains Appellation) that was pressed at Calais Winery in […]
Wow, What a Tasting Opportunity Day 1 at Texsom 2011 y Mas: Just when I thought day one was ending…Texas wine shows up Day 1: It was an amazing day… Forty-seven wines Doug Frost MS, […]
On the Road to Texsom VII – Texas Sommeliers and Beverage Conference 2011 Everything starts tomorrow at Texsom 2011 (www.texsom.com), THE TEXAS wine and beverage conference being held for the 7th time this weekend. It […]
Wild, Crazy and Fast-Paced Time for Texas Wine at The 2011 Wine Bloggers Conference in Virginia or…”@TinBarnVyds: We came. We poured. We sweated profusely. #wbc11 <- :)” I imagine yesterday’s action here at the […]
Manifesto: The Texas Wine Discussion Starts with Diurnal Temperature Swings, But Goes So Much Further How many times have you heard winery and/or vineyard reps say, “This vineyard location benefits from warm to hot days […]
VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Cold Soak versus Extended Maceration Maceration is a winemaking process whereby the phenolic materials of the grape (tannins, coloring agents (anthocyanins) and many flavor/aroma compounds) are extracted from the grape […]
Tweet Chat with a Real Live Master Sommelier about Texas Wine The next GO TEXAN Twitter Tuesday will be held on July 5 at 7 p.m. During the Twitter chat, the Texas Department of Agriculture […]
Texas Locavore Meets Locapour: Chef David Garrido Wins the First Edible Texas Wine Food Match After many months of planning since the idea for this first-ever wine-food pairing competition was hatched in my telephone conversation […]