Texas’ Self-Proclaimed Wine Czar Speaks: “What’s Good for Languedoc, is Good for Texas It’s Time for TxQA” Drinks Business (www.thedrinksbusiness.com) recently reported…. Building upon the AOC Languedoc base first established in 2007, two new tiers […]
Write Off The Vine: Texas Wine News – August 17, 2010 Proposed Federal Alcohol Law Could Limit Texas Wineries’ Growth Local and state wine makers are calling on Congress to kibosh a proposed federal law […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Red Wine Making – Pigéage and Délestage A technique used in red winemaking is the punching down the cap of grape skins that floats to the top of the tank […]
Kiepersol Estate: Terroir in the Glass and on the Plate…. A Truly Wonderful Combination to Behold Continued from “Traveling the Wine Roads of Northeast Texas Wine Country and the Grape Man of Texas”: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1995 — […]
In a recent blog, I posted my experiences as a limo chauffeured grape picker at the Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…” (See: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=2138). […]
VintageTexas Cyclopedia of Wine: The Wine Grape Called Picpoul Pronounced “peek-pool” (also spelled Piquepoul), this variety of white wine grape is cultivated in the Southern Rhone and Languedoc regions of France (http://www.terroir-france.com/wine/regions.htm). It is known […]
Video: Winemaker Tastes True Vin de Terroir – If I could put dirt in the bottle… Terroir comes from the word terre “land”. It was originally a French term in wine, coffee and tea used […]
News Release: San Antonio Texas Entrepreneurs Purchase CapRock Winery: Jim & Cathy Bodenstedt will Lead Revitalization of One of Texas’ Premier Wineries Under new ownership, Lubbock based CapRock Winery will expand distribution of its award […]
Jim Bodenstedt Submits Winning Bid for CapRock Winery in Second Round Auction Its been a long time in coming and I hope that we don’t have to go through another round of bidding. 2:14 pm – […]
From the Top: Talk from the Top 100 Wine Blogs with a Texas Perspective – July 31, 2010 — — — — — THE POUR – 12 Reasons to Look Beyond the Usual Wine Selections […]