Texas Wines Through the Looking Glass It’s late October and Alice is sitting on a slab of Texas limestone next to a riverbank in the Texas hill country, when she notices a rabbit run past. […]
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. […]
Cowboys, Cabernet and More at the Bush Presidential Library I drove up from Houston to College Station, Texas, as a hazy, yellow sunset burned ahead in the sky, masked only by a few wisps of […]
Video: Dallas Wine Trail – A Wine Trail without Leaving the City This is the fifth in a series of eight videos on Texas Wine trails. This episode features the Dallas Wine Trail, a cluster […]
Mind the Gap: Arabian Tales from the 2010 Buffalo Gap Wine and Food Summit Kick-Off Reception and Dinner The drive from Fredericksburg to Buffalo Gap (just south of Abilene, Texas) was shorter than expected made […]
What People in Napa Valley Really Drink? Why and How? As an aftermath to my previous blog about what Texas wines to serve winegrowers from Napa Valley (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1482), I’ve a follow-up observation. We all know […]
Texas Gulf Coast Wine Country – Old Place, New Opportunity It was cold and damp this morning, but after yesterday’s even wetter and colder tour of Jerry Watson’s vineyard in Cat Springs, the warmth […]
A Cellar Surprise: 1999 Pheasant Ridge Cabernet Sauvignon Frankly, I though tonight would be a quiet uneventful evening. I decided to open my wine cooler and peruse its nether regions. To my surprise, […]
What better way to appreciate wine and food in Texas but through a common appreciation of dogs. To be specific, last night’s Texas wine and food experience would not have happened but for such a situation. A WOW evening with a private chef is something that really get used to, and fine Texas wine to boot! […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]