Savor North Texas: “Big Red” Wine Country and More “Things are really happenin’ up here in North Texas,” says Gabe Parker owner of Homestead Winery locations in Ivanhoe, Denison, and Grapevine. “This area’s gaining a reputation […]
It’s the Right Time for Texas Roussanne Several years ago, in 2010, I experienced what I referred to back then as the breakout year for Texas Tempranillo. Texas wineries went from offering maybe only four […]
Got My Wine Shipment for TXwine Twitter Tuesday – March 12, 2013 Just in case you haven’t heard, this month’s TXwine Twitter Tuesday (a regularly scheduled Tweet/Taste-up of Texas wine aficionados) is happening Tuesday, March […]
VintageTexas 2012 Top Texas Wines – Honorable Mentions, For Darn Good Reasons Too! As I have learned in previous years, even when I list what I believe to be the ten best Texas wines, there […]
A Brownfield Meet Up: A New Venture (Texas Custom Wine Works) Starts To Ferment It all started one Friday morning this past May: a meet-up in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Brownfield, Texas, with Dusty […]
What’s the Texas wine scene like? By Ray Isle (Executive Wine Editor – Food and Wine Magazine) “Well, we’re doing the Austin Food & Wine Festival, so we’ll be revisiting Hill Country wineries. I’ve written […]
Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey To some wine consumers, I am sure that this data will fit their category of “Too Much Information” or […]
A Special Day All Around at Perissos Vineyards: After Being Two for Two, I Know When to Stop It’s not news to anyone in Texas, but it’s still hot and very dry. Yesterday was 99 […]
Join #GOTEXAN Wine and Texas Wine Aficionados for the Next Texas Twitter Tuesday! …Featuring: Texas High Plains Grower Cliff Bingham The next GO TEXAN Texas Twitter Tuesday is Tuesday, March 1 at 7 p.m. featuring […]
Texas Wine Czar Says, “The Best Texas Wines Will Be in the Style and Tradition of Europe” My wife and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary last night at Rainbow Lodge in Houston. While we […]