Texas in the Vineyard: Perissos Vineyard, Abundant Beyond Expectations In the hot heavy August heat, the 2010 Texas grape harvest season has been in full swing for over a month and it will likely carry […]
It’s a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead I just saw the Brix number’s posted on the Bingham Family Vineyards website (actually a link from their Twitter post […]
In Texas, 2010 is Stacking Up to be the “Vintage of the Century” Texan winegrowers have been so shell shocked over the past several years, it seems like nobody wants to talk about the way […]
VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Wine Faults I have been doing a lot of blogging on wine quality lately. But, from your perspective as a wine drinker in an evolving wine producing region like Texas […]
CapRock Winery Starts New Chapter; Begins Crushing Grapes for Huge Texas Harvest CapRock projects its largest grape crush/press service to date in 2010. The initial days of harvest confirm that this will be an excellent year […]
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). […]