Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – May 6, 2010 Texas Wine Grape Network: Proceedings of the 2009 Texas Viticulture & Enology Research Symposium Available Online Texas viticulture and enological specialists are learning how […]
Video: Welcome to Texas Wine Country: The Texas Hill Country Wine Trail Awaits You This week’s video episode features Katy Jane Bothum from Hill Country Wineries as she talks about the Texas Hill Country Wine […]
The New Texas Wine Lexicon: Better Start Asking if You Want Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Wines; They are Coming! This past week, I was visiting the Texas high plains, first on a bus tour of the […]
Brownfield, Texas: No Way! Been There and its Green with the Vines of Texas Wine Grapes We gathered in Brownfield, Texas, Yesterday. What you’ve never heard of it? Never seen it in the Atlas of […]
Ten Things I Learned About Wine, Food and People at the 2010 Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit 1. Court of Master Sommeliers – Deductive Tasting Format. This was a technique that I learned at […]
Mind the Gap: Arabian Tales from the 2010 Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit Kick-Off Reception and Dinner The drive from Fredericksburg to Buffalo Gap (just south of Abilene, Texas) was shorter than expected made […]
Buffalo Gap: What a Place for a Gourmet Wine and Food Event – “Not the end of the Earth, but you can see it from there” Buffalo Gap dates from 1857. The current Buffalo Gap […]
“The Unfinished”, A Remarkable and Enchanting Tale in Barolo Guest Blog by: Matthew Frank To research “Barolo” Matthew Frank (http://matthewgfrank.com/?page_id=137) spent six months in Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), living out of a tent in the […]
New York Wine Competition Awards Texas Wines A record number of wines competed for awards in the 10th annual Finger Lakes International Wine Competition (http://www.fliwc.com/) in 2010. The competition, which benefits Camp Good Days and […]
Texas Winegrowers are on the “Eraser’s Edge” You may recall the book “Razor’s Edge” by W. Somerset Maugham published in 1944. It quotes, “The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus […]