Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…” This time our Houston-based picking crew departed the I-610 West Loop embarkation point with the destination set for […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – July 22, 2010 Texas Wine of the Month: Dry Comal Creek Vineyards, Black Spanish Reserve, 2008 by Jessica Dupuy, Eat My Words Among the few varietals Texas […]
Limited Time Offer, July 12th Only: Buy a Winery and Get a Free Tour and Tasting – Actually, As Many As You Want, You’ll Own the Place! That’s right, you might be in the right […]
When You Have Texas Roussanne, Who Needs Chardonnay Roussanne is a variety of Vitis Vinifera with yellow-green colored berries, which gain a rosey hue under sunny conditions, that originated from France. It has several common […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – Harvest Edition (The Vintage of the Century) Well, it’s time to start harvesting the fruits of this year’s Texas vintage. By most accounts, growers and winemakers alike […]
Video: Welcome to Texas Wine Country: The Texas Hill Country Wine Trail Awaits You This week’s video episode features Katy Jane Bothum from Hill Country Wineries as she talks about the Texas Hill Country Wine […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]
Grape Harvest Days are Here Again….in Texas! It’s July, it’s Texas and again it is time to start the grape harvest. Can it be? Compared to Texas, in most wine producing regions things happen […]
Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise Known as Lenoir: Regional Character, International Reputation Photo: Franklin Howser, making Black Spanish wine at Dry Comal Creek Winery (click here) for more. :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Update: For a Video […]
Texas Wine Quiz #1: Who knows their Texas wines? How do you rate your knowledge of Texas wineries, winemaking and grapes growing? Test yourself with this fun and challenging quiz. Try not to Google […]