PREDICTION: Tempranillo Will Factor Greatly into Texas’s Wine Future; New Texas TAPAS Chapter “If I had to do it all over again, I’d plant 70 acres of Tempranillo and one acre of Cabernet Sauvignon. I’d […]
VintageTexas: Most Popular Blog Posts of October 2010 Wine Quiz #2 – Know your Italian Wines Texas Black Spanish – The Grape Otherwise Known as Lenoir Old World, New World Texas Wines (Part 1) A […]
Texas Aglianico: Just a Few Years Ago, Who’d a Thunk it? Time to Give It a Try! Aglianico, (pronounced – Ah-lee-an-ee-ko) tis the name of a red grape variety that is at home in Southern […]
VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Muscat Canelli, First Wine to Show True Texas Terroir Muscat Canelli with its floral, heady aromas is often called a “seductive” white grape. Muscat Canelli is known under a variety of […]
In Texas and Interested in Wine? Plan to Attend TEXSOM 2010, The Texas Sommelier’s Conference: August 15-16, 2010 TEXSOM 2010 will be held at the The Four Seasons Resort and Club in Irving, Texas on […]
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 […]
Frencesco Quaglia: The Man at Val Verde Winery that Gave Texas Wine Heading east from Marathon, I looked out from the road and the isolation in this part of Texas provided me little to announce […]
The New Texas Wine Lexicon: Better Start Asking if You Want Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner Wines; They are Coming! This past week, I was visiting the Texas high plains, first on a bus tour of the […]
“The Unfinished”, A Remarkable and Enchanting Tale in Barolo Guest Blog by: Matthew Frank To research “Barolo” Matthew Frank (http://matthewgfrank.com/?page_id=137) spent six months in Barolo, Italy (pop. 646), living out of a tent in the […]
Don’t Believe Everything you Read about Grape Growing in Texas “Emigrants to Texas, will not have to encounter years of arduous labor in subduing heavy and obstinate forests; but they will be able in almost […]