Never fear Cotes de Bordeaux are here! Geez, it’s hot outside, but inside Chef Pedro Angel Garcia‘s El Mason Restaurant, coolness and pleasure prevailed as we enjoyed bites of unique Spanish/Latin American preparations along with […]
Rios de Chile: Carmenère, the Grape Lost, Found and Doing Very Well in Chile Carmenère, a member of the Bordeaux family of red grapes,gets its name from the French word “carmin” referring either to the […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Clairette, Clairet, Claret & Clarete One of the things that often makes wine a field high on the geek-a-tude index is its plethora of wine terms and especially those that […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Botrytis Cinerea Could a rot by any other name, be so sweet? Only if it known by its other names: Pourriture Noble (in France) or Edelfaule (in Germany). In any […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Acidity Think of acidity and fruit, and your mind immediately goes to the tart and titillation of lemon juice. But, what would wine be without acidity? It would be a […]
Texsom 2012 “Be There or Be Square”: August 11-13, 2012 You may remember the line “Be there, or be square” from The Wiz, the modern-day version of the Wizard of Oz. Well, this line could […]
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 […]
Messina Hof Hill Country Grand Opening: Of Tractors, Terroir and a Taste of 1984 It was a grand day yesterday on the Fredericksburg Route 290 Wine Trail with another Texas winery planting its footprint at […]
Messina Hof Let’s Talk Seafood Party: Like Opening the Pantry and Frig and Starting a Recipe from Scratch Finally, a few days of lower temperatures lightened the evening drive from Houston to Messina Hof Winery […]
Wine Bloggers Start your Engines – #WBC11 is #UpAndRunning #TXwine #VAwine #SocialNetworking #Twitter #Viognier #Tempranillo #Viviana It’s my first time back to the Wine Bloggers Conference since 2008, it’s inaugural year. Since then, this Twitter-thang […]