Looking at the World through a Glass of Rosé Looking around this place, it has characteristics like many places on the Texas Gulf Coast: Wind-blown palm trees, blooming bougainvillea, and cadres of dogs on leash […]
The Judgment of Houston Redux With all of the talk about our recent Drink Local Wine Conference and Texas Twitter Taste-Off, I have had many emails that ask about other times that Texas wines have […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – August 24, 2009 Great Grape Stomp Off in New Braunfels, Texas (and Win Free Tickets) Hosted by the Texas Hill Country Wineries and Vintage Oaks at the […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]
Texas Twitter Taste-Off: Taste, Tweet, Repeat – 200,000 times! And More Winners (Silver Award Wines) I can’t take credit for the line “Taste, Tweet, Repeat”, but those were the instructions I gave to the assembled […]
GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners The byline for the blog today is “Syrah between my keys”…. The first GO TEXAN (www.GoTexanwine.org) Twitter Taste-Off organized and moderated for (www.DrinkLocalWine.com) by VintageTexas was held Saturday […]
Let the Tasting Begin at the Drink Local Wine Conference and Twitter Taste Off (#DLW09) Well, this first of its kind event made the Wall Street Journal. Today was the kick-off of the Drink Local Wine […]
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Texas Twitter Taste-Off and More DrinkLocalWine.com First-ever Conference Sold Out- Follow on Twitter (search #DLW09) DrinkLocalWine.com focuses on North American wine that isn’t made in California and the […]
At the end of the session, one gentleman who at first had been ultra-resistant to the whole idea of Texas Wines summed up the feelings of the crowd by asking, “Why don’t you just get Robert Parker (www.erobertparker.com) to rate these wines? That would get the word out, once and for all, about just how good Texas wines can be.” […]
Time to Saddle Up for the 2009 Harvest Wine Trail Win Tickets on This Year’s Hill Country Harvest Trail Two Weekends Aug 14-16 & 21-23 , 2009 The verve of the wine industry in The […]