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 […]
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Texas Twitter Taste-Off and More DrinkLocalWine.com First-ever Conference Sold Out- Follow on Twitter (search #DLW09) DrinkLocalWine.com focuses on North American wine that isn’t made in California and the […]
At the end of the session, one gentleman who at first had been ultra-resistant to the whole idea of Texas Wines summed up the feelings of the crowd by asking, “Why don’t you just get Robert Parker (www.erobertparker.com) to rate these wines? That would get the word out, once and for all, about just how good Texas wines can be.” […]
Live Wine Blogging from the Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma and Soon from Dallas, Texas By Kori ~ July 24th, 2009 @ 2:30pm – “Dad (John), Colby, and I are here at the Wine Bloggers […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: July 23, 2009 [to comment click icon in upper right] Texas Wine Industry Continues to Grow – Not Just Another Harvest Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Todd Staples, […]
A Comparative Tasting: Premium White Blends – Viviana, Alluvium Blanc and Conundrum Viviana – A wine alive and well with Texas heat… The hot days of Texas summer are upon us. What better thing to […]
I have received several emails from a VintageTexas readers that were trying trying to locate a blog post on “wine and movie” pairings that I did when I first started the VintageTexas. Redux is an adjective […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 1 The Beginnings Eons ago its genesis was in a vast and desolate inland sea predating human consciousness; a wet and hostile place. At an […]
North Texas Road Trip Entry 5 – Visiting the Supreme Expérimenter at Brushy Creek Vineyards There comes a point in just about every Texas road trip where a personal moment surfaces and human and natural […]
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 […]