Need More Good Wines in California (and Texas): Blame Varietals I recently read a good blog on why in the day of modern technology we don’t have more good wines that can be grown in […]
Texas Wines Win at 2010 National Womens Wine Competition Torre di Pietra Vineyards (www.texashillcountrywine.com) Torre di Pietra Texas (Hill Country: Reserve, Estate Produced) Black Spanish 2009 $29.95 – Silver, Open Competition More on Black Spanish, go to: […]
Messina Hof Paulo Shiraz: Texas Soup and Texas Wine Pairing If you are like me, you often have several unfinished bottles of wine (often from Texas) that end up in the refrigerator normally with only a […]
A Little Bull, Country Western Honky Tonkin’ and a Glass or Two of Texas “Chardonnay” at Brennan Vineyards During my recent sit in the Brennan Vineyards (www.brennanvineyards.com) tasting room in Comanche, Texas, while I was trying […]
OK, I Admit It….I was One of the Kids with a Coonskin Cap. I Salute Fess Parker – King of the Wine Frontier Fess Parker, a television icon to a generation of youngsters as Davy […]
What People in Napa Valley Really Drink? Why and How? As an aftermath to my previous blog about what Texas wines to serve winegrowers from Napa Valley (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1482), I’ve a follow-up observation. We all know […]
Guest Blog: Powerful Wines and Powerful Thoughts for the Texas Wine Industry by Dan Gatlin, Inwood Estates Vineyards This article was originally written for the Texas Department of Agriculture’s Excellence Uncorked E-Zine, Ask-the-Expert column and […]
What Texas Wines do you Serve to Napa Valley Winegrowers? Saturday evening, we hosted a wonderful dinner party for Chuck and Lisa Reid. They are long time friends and Texans that live in Houston this part […]
Seeds of Change: Texas Farmer Finds Niche with Wine Grapes in Texas Co-op Power – Article on Texas High Plains grape growing at Bingham Family Farm and Vineyards. Wine grapes make good sense of Texas […]
What I’m Drinking Tonight: Mandola Estate Winery 2008 Sangiovese Tonight, my wife and I had a simple baked rosemary chicken dinner. It is one of her specialities. While she was cooking, I was searching through my […]