Off to the Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma We left yesterday for California and had the distinct pleasure to stay in Napa Valley at the home of our friends from Houston – Chuck and Lisa […]
Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting While at the winery, I spied this bottle of the award winning 2002 Barking Rocks, Newsom Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon still sporting its gold medal. This must have been a omen […]
22nd Annual GrapeFest People’s Choice Awards Thousands of wine enthusiasts cast their votes for their preferred Texas wines at this year’s 22nd Annual GrapeFest during the Chesapeake Energy People’s Choice Wine Tasting Classic. The […]
Evidently some of you missed my posting of the results from the “Who Knows Their Texas Wines” Quiz (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=40) as comments at the bottom of the quiz posting. Sorry for the confusion. Well, here goes…. get […]
Join the GO TEXAN Restraurant Round Up What: 1st Annual Restaurant Texas Dine-Out Where: In a city near you (See links below) When: Wednesday, October 1, 2008 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZVkOu186FFs Details: GO TEXAN Restaurant Round-Up serves […]
Days of Wine & Movies….Ultimate Pairings Recently, the award winning movie, “Sideways”, brought to moviegoers a plethora of wine-speak woven around two central characters and the complexities of their life and personal flaws. This “crossover” […]
A Trip to Flat Creek Estate Winery The morning was truly a wonderful Texas Hill country morning….70 degrees, clear and bone dry. I was in my car with the top open and trying to navigate […]
HAAK 2003 MADEIRA WINS GOLD MEDAL IN NATIONAL WOMEN’S WINE COMPETITION Haak Vineyards & Winery proudly announces its 2003 Madeira Jacquez has won a Gold Medal in the second annual National Women’s Wine Competition […]
The Go Texan Restaurant Round-Up – October 1, 2008 Celebrating the menus of the Lone Star State while helping Texans in need….. Establishments that are members of the Texas Department of Agriculture’s GO TEXAN Restaurant […]
Texsom 2008 – Sunday AM I arrived in Austin at the Four Seasons Hotel at 8:30 am and found my way to the event. Texsom 2008 was easy to find by the seemly endless tables […]