From Tannat to Souzão: Sunday Morning Tasting at Bending Branch Vineyards As I drove from my personal piece of the Texas hill country to Bending Branch Vineyards just a short stretch of road from […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: CapRock Sweet Tempranillo – An Old Technique with a Texas Twist Natural wine aficionado, Alice Feiring, said, “First time I had a well-made wine from carbonic maceration…I was pretty charmed. […]
VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Cold Soak versus Extended Maceration Maceration is a winemaking process whereby the phenolic materials of the grape (tannins, coloring agents (anthocyanins) and many flavor/aroma compounds) are extracted from the grape […]
How Does the “Classification of Napa Valley” Discussion Relate to Texas Wine Quality? Tom Wark posted a Fermentation Blog yesterday that explored the future of Napa Valley and the issue of the commoditization of Chardonnay […]
Guest Blog: Wine Making, Texas Style at Bluff Dale Winery By Nathan Smith, Freelance Agricultural Journalist From Italian hillsides to French farms to California vineyards, the world has come to know and love the taste […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Red Wine Making – Pigéage and Délestage A technique used in red winemaking is the punching down the cap of grape skins that floats to the top of the tank […]
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 […]
What Are They Saying About Us in California? “Just What the Cowboy Ordered” Highlighted from Tom Wark’s Fermentation – The Daily Wine Blog http://fermentation.typepad.com/fermentation/2009/04/just-what-the-cowboy-ordered.html Despite the horrendously monopolized alcohol distribution system in Texas, that state […]
Guest Blog: Help Us Understand Wine Blogs As posted on Tom Wark’s Fermentation: The Daily Wine Blog (http://fermentation.typepad.com/) Tom Wark’s Blog has reached the monumental status of having reached its 4th Anniversary in a media […]