Top Ten VintageTexas Blogs in August 2012 Wine Quiz #2 – Know your Italian Wines Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #1 – Five Wines Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – September 1, 2012 The Best Wine and Wine Makers in Texas By Ben Carpenter, TexanPost The long history of Texas wine begins in the 1600s with Spanish […]
Texsom 2012: What a Tasting Opportunity… From Margaux to Mason County Texas The Sunday morning session began with a rush of servers, Sommeliers of all types with varying degrees of certification, pouring to over a […]
News Flash: TDA Update Regarding Texas Wine Promotion – It’s Back! Although the majority of funding for the State of Texas’ wine marketing was eliminated during the last legislative session, the Texas Department of Agriculture […]
Pedernales Cellars: Texas Wine Riding a Wave of Success On a damp hazy summer morning, I trekked out from our hill country cottage and was between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on a road that’s taken […]
Messina Hof Winery Harvesting: “More fun than I thought it would be!” I was recently part of a limo-driven labor force on route from Houston to Bryan, Texas, to participate in this year’s harvesting of […]
What’s on Your Wine Labels: From Appellation to “For Sale in Texas Only” I get more emails about wine labeling than just about any topic. The questions can vary from….”What is the minimum amount of […]
CapRock Winery Says “In Our Time of Need, Lubbock Should Drink Clean, Safe Texas Wine” According to Phillip Anderson, General Manager of Lubbock’s CapRock Winery, “I went out to lunch today & noticed that the […]
Whitehall Lane Wine Dinner at Sullivan’s Steakhouse Houston: The Palate Dance I will have to acknowledge that for Whitehall Lane Winery presented last Thursday evening, the Frog’s Leap wine dinner at Sullivan’s Steakhouse in May […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]