VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Madeira The Portuguese island 400 miles into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northern Africa. Wines have been produced on this island since around the fifteenth century. However, this […]
Wine Walking in Granbury and Mind Tripping in the Brazos Hardscrabble Country I sailed out of Houston and out from under a low gray blanket of clouds threatening rain. After just a few miles, however, […]
Video: Dallas Wine Trail – A Wine Trail without Leaving the City This is the fifth in a series of eight videos on Texas Wine trails. This episode features the Dallas Wine Trail, a cluster […]
Texas Gulf Coast Wine Country – Old Place, New Opportunity It was cold and damp this morning, but after yesterday’s even wetter and colder tour of Jerry Watson’s vineyard in Cat Springs, the warmth […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: January 31, 2010 Texas 2009 Vintage Report from Wines and Vines by Ed Hellman, Viticulture extension specialist with contributions by regional viticulture advisors: Penny Adams, Fran Pontasch, […]
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 Texas Wines Do I Drink on Thanksgiving and with Ten Top Texas Favorites? 1. Thanksgiving – I always like to have both red and white wines and also a sweet wine on the Thanksgiving […]
Looking at the World through a Glass of Rosé Looking around this place, it has characteristics like many places on the Texas Gulf Coast: Wind-blown palm trees, blooming bougainvillea, and cadres of dogs on leash […]
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 […]
From Nuances in Arboreal Green to the Nuances of Wine My trip was from Houston to the Dallas – Fort Worth area and my destination was more specifically Grapevine where I will be sitting with others […]