What I’m Drinking Tonight: CapRock Winery 2010 Sauvignon Blanc Martin’s Vineyard It was a 100+ F today, but dry as a bone in the hill country outside Fredericksburg, Texas. When we arrived yesterday evening, we […]
Summer 2011 Brings New Chapters and Scorched Pages in the Texas Winegrowers Handbook Earlier this year the news from Texas was dominated by one word….Wildfire! Firefighters battled out-of-control wildfires that scorched hundreds of square miles […]
Write Off the Vine, Texas Wine News is Back: 2011 Harvest Trail, GO TEXAN Go Thirsty, More Texas Wine Competition Results Texas Hill Country Wineries Harvest Wine Trail, August 5-7 and 12-14, 2011 The harvest […]
Texas Wine Country? Vineyard Tour and Wine Tasting 2011 in South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley In cooperation with Texas Department of Agriculture,Texas AgriLife Extension, USDA-ARS Where: Rio Farms, Inc. in Monte Alto, TX […]
“More Gold Medals than Ever Before”: 2011 Lone Star Wine Competitions At the end of the first day of judging, I saw Michael Zerbach, Co-Chair of the Lone Star International Wine Competition held in Grapevine, […]
Texas Locavore Meets Locapour: Chef David Garrido Wins the First Edible Texas Wine Food Match After many months of planning since the idea for this first-ever wine-food pairing competition was hatched in my telephone conversation […]
In California & Texas, Latinos are Moving to Wine; We’re in for Some Exciting New Pairings The research in California is showing that wine consumption among Latinos has increased dramatically over the past five years […]
I knew it! I knew it! Family Blocked Gruet’s Bid to Buy CapRock Winery in Texas (Maybe) In a story run on Lubock Online (AVALANCHE-JOURNAL) today, they contend that battling siblings may have been a […]
Gary V Video: Texas Wines Inspired by Italian Piemonte and French Rhone Valley While on-location at a winery (Times Ten Cellars) in Dallas, Texas, Gary Vaynerchuk (pronounced Vay-nur-chuck with strong tri-syllabic punctuation) found that he […]
A Tale of Two (or More) Texas Rosés on a Hot “Summer” Afternoon It’s Summer in Houston! Well, technically, we may not have yet reached Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 (the coming first day of summer […]