Austin County Fair: First Ever Non-Commercial Winemakers Show There’s a new event at this year’s Austin County Fair….A Winemakers Contest. Homemade wines are a South Central Texas tradition that have stretched back from generation to […]
GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Texas Twitter Taste-Off Winners The byline for the blog today is “Syrah between my keys”…. The first GO TEXAN (www.GoTexanwine.org) Twitter Taste-Off organized and moderated for (www.DrinkLocalWine.com) by VintageTexas was held Saturday […]
Texas Wines Earn High Marks: 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition Medal Results from the 2009 Lone Star International Wine Competition at: http://www.txwines.org/competitions/lonestar_results.asp The rest of the story…… Last week, I blogged about my trek […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Upcoming Texas Wine Festivals FEBRUARY 2009 February 19-21 2009 Annual Conference & Trade Show of the Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association, Austin This annual event hosted […]
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 […]
My Kindred Wine-Spirit in Tokyo As you may have seen in my previous blog posting, I had the opportunity to celebrate the arrival of the 2008 Beaujolais Nouveau earlier this month in Tokyo. See: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=186. […]
22nd Annual GrapeFest People’s Choice Awards Thousands of wine enthusiasts cast their votes for their preferred Texas wines at this year’s 22nd Annual GrapeFest during the Chesapeake Energy People’s Choice Wine Tasting Classic. The […]
Shoot Out at the O.K. “Wine” Corral One of the pleasures I have had, as a member of the Wine Society of Texas, is helping to organize interesting events involving wine and food. Because the […]
The Judgment of Houston – 3 In early May, a post competition taste-off of the top ten scoring Texas wines was held at the Grand Wine & Food Affair in Fort Bend County Texas. This […]
The major conclusion of the “Judgment of Houston” was readily evident in the rankings of the top scoring wines and how the top Texas wines placed with respect to the non-Texas ringers. The judges did […]