What a Difference Four Years Made for Texas Wine – 1910 to 1914 While doing background research for my new book, Texas Hill Country Wineries, for Arcadia Publications, I came across two newspaper advertisements from […]
Guest Blog: It was a Very Good Decade (for Texas Wine and a Lot More) by Bobby Champion (Ex-Texas State Coordinator for Wine Marketing, Texas Department of Agriculture) Ten years of Texas Wine Marketing – […]
Write Off The Vine: Texas Wine News – November 9, 2010 Big Red Fundraiser at Charlie Palmer’s Benefits North Texas Food Bank by Andrew Chalk (Sidedish) Charlie Palmer’s at The Joule held a major wine […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Biodynamic Viticulture Biodynamic Viticulture is a subdivision of biodynamic agriculture that stems from the ideals of Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925). At its roots are the precursors of the organic movement. The […]
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 […]
Snakes on the Plains: Texas Rattlesnake and Texas Wine Any of you that have seen the Samuel L. Jackson movie “Snakes on a Plane” or even just the movie’s trailer (see below) knows the feeling […]
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 […]
Europe Acknowledges Texan and his Contributions to the World-Wide Wine Industry Texas Historian Wins the International Gourmand Award’s Best Wine History Book for his Biography of “Grape Man” T.V. Munson In Frankfurt, Germany, on October […]
Writer Russ Kane of VintageTexas under Contract with Texas Tech University Press Contributions and experiences sought that highlight the Texas new wine country scene and its history NEWS RELEASE: December 18, 2009 – Writer, blogger and […]
Why Celebrate Texas Independence with a Glass of French Champagne? Texas history is rife with tales and legends. At times, it is hard to know the difference between historical fact and its embellishments. One such […]