2009 5th Annual Texas FallFest and Wine Auction “Sunset Stroll” with Texas Winemakers – Friday, October 2nd Pouring cellar selections as Hill Country Chefs serve stellar fare for our guests’ pleasure at the enchanting Lakeside […]
Barbaresco and Barolo, But Don’t Forget Dolcetto, Barbera and the Whites — — — — — New: See Rascal’s Travels: Hail Cesare in Piemonte at: http://rascalspalate.com/?p=21 — — — — — I could not remember […]
Texas Harvest Wine Trail Tuesday, September 1, 2009 by Ry @ Sotto Il Monte Vineyards “Saturday before last we went on the Texas Harvest Wine Trail – courtesy of Russ Kane at Vintage Texas and […]
Barolo & Barbaresco: Where the Nebbia and Nebbiolo Hang — — — — — New: See Rascal’s Travels: Hail Cesare in Piemonte at: http://rascalspalate.com/?p=21 — — — — — Heading east from Villefranche-Sur-Mer on the French […]
Great Grape Stomp Off in New Braunfels, Texas (and Win Free Tickets) Hosted by the Texas Hill Country Wineries and Vintage Oaks at the Vineyard, this annual event allows couples to test their foot stomping […]
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 […]