Video: Tempranillo – The Wine of the Sun and the Good Texas Earth This next installment of the Texas wine video series features Jim Johnson, owner and winemaker at Alamosa Cellars in Bend, Texas on […]
Texan had “Wine-Powered” Flight before the Wright Brothers Born in Germany in 1821, Jacob Brodbeck taught school there before starting a new life on the Texas frontier. He reached Fredericksburg in 1847 and became a […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – May 21, 2009 Austin Wine Festival – Memorial Day Weekend A uniquely Austin 3-day Texas wine celebration – RAIN OR SHINE! Wineries from Lampasas to New Braunfels […]
Video: Texas Sangiovese, the Warm Climate Pinot Noir Sangiovese is universally acknowledged as one of the great grapes of Italy and is the principal grape used in producing Chianti in Tuscany. The grape normally produces […]
I have received several emails from a VintageTexas readers that were trying trying to locate a blog post on “wine and movie” pairings that I did when I first started the VintageTexas. Redux is an adjective […]
Grape Creek Vineyards Vintner Dinner at Chef Burtwell’s Cabernet Grill Texas Hill Country wines are rapidly becoming what can be referred to as “the whole deal, the real deal, and the big deal”; something similar […]
Video: Viognier, Roussanne and Blanc du Bois: The Three Sisters of Texas Wines Ever think of Texas as a Chardonnay kind of place? I didn’t think so. It can be grown in Texas and even does […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 2 Continued from: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=790 In my search to define Texas terroir [the sense of place], I often stop to listen for voices of the human […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 1 The Beginnings Eons ago its genesis was in a vast and desolate inland sea predating human consciousness; a wet and hostile place. At an […]
Best of VintageTexas: 2009 Highlights (so far) Drinking a Bit of Texas History “As Texans and settler transplants have realized for over the past hundred and fifty years, parts of Texas have been this county’s last […]