Winners at the 2014 Austin County Wine Show I once spoke with Texas high plains winegrower Neal Newsom about the differences in growing grapes for wine and growing other crops like hay and cotton. He […]
Texas & Beyond: Texas Wines Are Having a Break-Out Year TXwinelover.com recently tabulated the Texas wine winners from the recently held Texsom – Dallas Morning News International Wine Competition in held in Dallas in January […]
Cat Spring Grape Field Day 2014: So You Want to Grow Grapes, Texas Gulf Coast Edition The Cat Spring Grape Field Day is February 7 this year, and it is shaping up to be another […]
Winners of the 2013 Austin Country Fair Wine Show Judging On Saturday, October 12, 2013, the Austin County Fair held their 2013 Non-commercial Wine Show and Judging at the Austin County Fairgrounds – Turnverein Building, […]
Texas Blanc Du Bois Four Ways in 2013 Haak Vineyards & Winery Blanc Du Bois Scored High at Tasting Panel Magazine Two Blanc Du Bois wines from Haak Vineyards and Winery (Santa Fe, TX) scored […]
Texas Grape Growers Committee to host Blanc Du Bois Symposium: May 10, 2013 I’ve had some pretty good comments back (many by direct email rather than comments on the blog) from my recent post about Messina […]
Sitting Here Sipping On Some Messina Hof Private Reserve 2011 Blanc Du Bois As I’m sitting down to write this piece, I’m sipping on a white wine from Texas. It’s not a Texas high plains […]
VintageTexas Top Ten Texas Wines of 2012 – White Wines The naming of the top ten Texas wines has become our VintageTexas annual tradition. After Jessica Dupuy’s fine retrospective of her top Texas wines of […]
**What I’m Drinking (and Eating) Tonight** Wow! Pardon the exclamation, but it’s been a great night. I tried my hand again at cooking Sous Vide. This time it was salmon, vacuum sealed and left to […]
Texsom 2012: What a Tasting Opportunity… From Margaux to Mason County Texas The Sunday morning session began with a rush of servers, Sommeliers of all types with varying degrees of certification, pouring to over a […]