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 […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blogs of 2011 (and Two More) I just did the tally of the most popular (most accessed) blogs on VintageTexas for the year of 2011 and they are listed below. For the […]
UPDATE: What I’m Doing for the First International Tempranillo Day – September 1, 2011 TAPAS recently announced the first International Tempranillo Day, September 1, 2011: A celebration of the Tempranillo grape with all its regional […]
A Bottle Full of Memories and Rainbows Last night I came home from an invigorating workout and opened my wine cooler As usual, I never really know what’s going to tumble out at me. I […]
Grayson College Outreach Seminar Profiles Series Starts for Fall 2010 with Winemaking of Argentina The first seminar in the Grayson College Enology Outreach Seminar Profiles Series for the fall will be Monday, September 20, 2010 […]
Guilty As Charged. Texas WineSlinger Admits, “I Drink Foreign Wine” Yep! That’s right, I said it. It is a full admission. But, why? You would be amazed at some of the emails that I receive. […]
French Country Wines: An Unexpected Joy That I “Could-Tannat” Pass Up There is a gem of a place hidden on a back street near Rice Village in Houston, Texas. Believe it or not, there is […]
Dry Desert and Good Texas Wine Meet at Monte Sec Vineyard A pale orange sunset backlit the darkening city with a ribbon of city lights dotting a path between the mountains to what the Spanish […]
Wine Wiz Quiz – What do you know about the Argentine Mendoza Wine Growing Region? The Mendoza wine growing region of Argentina has many attributes similar to the Texas High Plains appellation. Let’s find […]
Winemaking Starts in Texas: A Retrospective “Tasting” with Father Garcia de San Francisco y Zuniga “When we entered the region, we saw grapes growing wild along the rivers of Tejas and they looked like I […]