TEXSOM Celebrates 11 Years as Nation’s Premier Sommelier Education Conference: Sessions and Registration Presently celebrating its eleventh year, TEXSOM, the most prominent and influential sommelier education conference in the world, announces that registration is now open […]
Texas Grape Growers Committee to host Blanc Du Bois Symposium: May 10, 2013 I’ve had some pretty good comments back (many by direct email rather than comments on the blog) from my recent post about Messina […]
Lessons Learned for Local Wine Movements from Colorado and Texas: DrinkLocalWine.com Time While working on my recently released book, The Wineslinger Chronicles, I had a discussion with Bran Johnson. He was a geology professor at […]
In Texas and Interested in Wine? Plan to Attend TEXSOM 2010, The Texas Sommelier’s Conference: August 15-16, 2010 TEXSOM 2010 will be held at the The Four Seasons Resort and Club in Irving, Texas on […]
Leading Regional Wine Writers Set for the Drinklocalwine.com Conference in Virginia Wine Country Some of the best writers about U.S. regional wine, including Lenn Thompson of the New York Cork Report, author and critic Todd Kliman, […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – December 12, 2009 So you Want to Grow Grapes in Texas…it Pays to Have Information on Your side. Welcome to the Texas Winegrape Network, a comprehensive information […]
Let the Tasting Begin at the Drink Local Wine Conference and Twitter Taste Off (#DLW09) Well, this first of its kind event made the Wall Street Journal. Today was the kick-off of the Drink Local Wine […]
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.” […]
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – August 1, 2009 TEXSOM & DrinkLocalWine: Excellent wine two-fer in Dallas in mid-August By Kim Pierce Mid-August is an excellent time to polish your wine creds with two […]
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 […]