Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: December 16, 2011 Grape acres expand in spite of drought By Logan Hawkes (Southwest Farm Press) While the Texas grape harvest suffered a significant drop this fall […]
Top Ten VintageTexas Blog Posts of November 2011 Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise Known as Lenoir Pecan Jam: A San Saba Celebration of Texas Wine and Pecan-Filled Foods Principal Factors in the Control […]
Texas Wine Shrimp Mac & Cheese Delight: My Fatal Mistake in Wine Selection? When my wife and I get an invitation to Chef and cookbook author Terry Thompson Anderson‘s house, we always know to expect […]
Texas Hill Country (Wine Country) Pictorial (featuring the photos of Houston-based photographer, James Skogsberg) About a month ago, my wife and I had friends Jim and Lillian Skogsberg out for a visit to our Hill […]
Messina Hof Hill Country Grand Opening: Of Tractors, Terroir and a Taste of 1984 It was a grand day yesterday on the Fredericksburg Route 290 Wine Trail with another Texas winery planting its footprint at […]
Hurray for Local Wines (from the Other 47 States*) – You Should Know Who They Are! FOURTH ANNUAL REGIONAL WINE WEEK SETS RECORDS One of the most successful ever, Regional Wine Week grows from grassroots […]
Red Wine with Sushi? Yep! Texas Hills Vineyard Barbera Last weekend, my wife and I had friends Jill and Mark up to our cottage in the Texas Hill Country. They were seeking a respite, relief […]
What I’m Drinking Tonight: CapRock Winery 2010 Sauvignon Blanc Martin’s Vineyard It was a 100+ F today, but dry as a bone in the hill country outside Fredericksburg, Texas. When we arrived yesterday evening, we […]
Texas Locavore Meets Locapour: Chef David Garrido Wins the First Edible Texas Wine Food Match After many months of planning since the idea for this first-ever wine-food pairing competition was hatched in my telephone conversation […]
Texas Wineries Reaching Critical Mass in Fredericksburg with New 4.0 Cellars I must have been brain dead yesterday, or just too absorbed in my book project to see the new and important development taking place […]