Messina Hof Let’s Talk Seafood Party: Like Opening the Pantry and Frig and Starting a Recipe from Scratch Finally, a few days of lower temperatures lightened the evening drive from Houston to Messina Hof Winery […]
Ten Things I Learned at the 2010 GrapeFest: People’s Choice Texas Wine Competition I was optimistic when I opened my front door Thursday morning in Houston and entered my car for the drive up to […]
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 […]
Cowboys, Cabernet and More at the Bush Presidential Library I drove up from Houston to College Station, Texas, as a hazy, yellow sunset burned ahead in the sky, masked only by a few wisps of […]
A Different Texas Chip with My Texas Wine I am always on the lookout for new things to pair with Texas wines particularly if they are also from Texas. I think I found something here: A […]
The Texas Borderland – Vineyards of Days Gone By and Today As I left the Highway I really did not know what to expect. I had read about the good Padres that over three hundred […]
VintageTexas 2009 Texas Best Wines During the past year, I had the chance to taste a number of Texas wines. This included two wine competitions, a twitter taste-off and on the wine trail on the […]
What Wine Do You Serve with Chicken Fried Bacon? The State Fair of Texas Winning Fried Food By JESSICA MEYERS / The Dallas Morning News Nothing says Texas State Fair like fried cooking, and nothing says […]
Know Your Terroir – Part II Can you Name the Ten Most Famous Wine Regions from their Terroir? Part II of this two part blog, focuses on the first five famous terroirs of the modern […]