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 […]
VintageTexas 2009 Texas Best Wines During the past year, I had the chance to taste a number of Texas wines. This included two wine competitions, a twitter taste-off and on the wine trail on the […]
Perhaps in Ten Years and with the Grace of God: Trapiche Tasting As you know if you read this blog, I spend a lot of time sampling, thinking and writing about Texas wine drinking, but […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Thanksgivings Day Edition Nine Must-See Vineyards Along Wine Road 290 in Texas Hill Country MARY G. RAMOS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News Highway 290 […]
Barbaresco and Barolo, But Don’t Forget Dolcetto, Barbera and the Whites — — — — — New: See Rascal’s Travels: Hail Cesare in Piemonte at: http://rascalspalate.com/?p=21 — — — — — I could not remember […]
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 […]
Get Your Toes in the Vineyard; Take a Texas Wine Trail Tour GO TEXAN WineCast with Susan Auler from Fall Creek Vineyards Part of my mission on VintageTexas is to make people that either live […]
Terroir: A “Land – Man” Conjunction Earlier this year, I visited the Texas High Plains to observe the grape harvest. As I chronicled my trip and experience on this blog, I had an intimate awareness […]
Five New Year’s Wine Resolutions for 2009 1. Drink Well, Drink Local In 2008, I blogged about “Food/Drink Miles” as applied to wine selection. In 2009, I reconfirm that I will drink well, but […]
Write-Off the Vine – Texas Wine News 2009 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo – Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition Champion and Medal Winning Wines (Texas Wine Winners) Just in time for your holiday pleasure, the […]