Texas Sommeliers, Wine Experts Select Top Lone Star Wines …In the honor of our Texas heritage, I’ll be so bold as to as to say, “Remember Tempranillo…Remember Blanc Du Bois!” On Monday, January 17th, I […]
Texas Wine Czar Says, “The Best Texas Wines Will Be in the Style and Tradition of Europe” My wife and I celebrated our 26th wedding anniversary last night at Rainbow Lodge in Houston. While we […]
2010 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas: Installment #1 In 2010, I traveled more of the state and tasted more Texas wines than in any previous year. Therefore, this year I’ve had a hard time […]
PREDICTION: Tempranillo Will Factor Greatly into Texas’s Wine Future; New Texas TAPAS Chapter “If I had to do it all over again, I’d plant 70 acres of Tempranillo and one acre of Cabernet Sauvignon. I’d […]
It’s Thanksgiving Day and No Wine. What Do I Do Now? Reach for Duchman I’ll have to take the blame this year. I gave you my wines for Thanksgivings Day. They were released on Culinary […]
Texas Wine Quality: Something that Will Get Even Better the More We All Talk About It Realize that now Texas wineries have obtained a certain level of acceptance from consumers and support by the legal […]
Shout Out to Texas Wineries that Garnered Medals at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition The 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest, most influential international wine competition in America, was judged by […]
Ten Things I Learned at the Vinotology Mandola Twitter Tasting and Tasting Notes For those of you that did not follow the Ben Simon’s Vinotology Mandola Twitter Tasting using the Twitter tag #tastetexas this past […]
It’s Finally Time for a Taste of Texas, Twitter-Style Today is the day. The time to tweet is at 7:00 pm Central Time, when Ben Simon at Vinotology (http://www.vinotology.com) will be hosting an event on […]
The New Texas Wine Lexicon: Better Start Asking if You Want Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Wines; They are Coming! This past week, I was visiting the Texas high plains, first on a bus tour of the […]