It was an all-day technical program followed by an afternoon tasting of some of the Texas Gulf Coast area’s wines. […]
Blanc Du Bois: Texas Grown – Gulf Coast and Now Beyond Excerpt from Edible Houston Celebration May/June 2016 Issue story: Blanc Du Bois: Texas Grown – by Russ Kane of VintageTexas. Copies of this issue […]
Winners at the 2014 Austin County Wine Show I once spoke with Texas high plains winegrower Neal Newsom about the differences in growing grapes for wine and growing other crops like hay and cotton. He […]
Small Scale Winemakers Symposium: May 5, 2012 in Cat Spring, Texas The Grape Growers Committee of Austin County will be sponsoring a Small Scale Wine Makers Symposium on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Cat […]
The Best Texas Wine Money Can’t Buy …and it’s not from Greece! I had dinner with friends last Saturday evening at Lucio’s on Taft in downtown Houston. They are a tremendous BYOB establishment ($5 corkage […]
2011 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas – The Honorable Mentions As with any top ten wine list, there are many wines that are worthy of inclusion, but for one reason of another are left out. In […]
Texas Wine Country? Vineyard Tour and Wine Tasting 2011 in South Texas and the Rio Grande Valley In cooperation with Texas Department of Agriculture,Texas AgriLife Extension, USDA-ARS Where: Rio Farms, Inc. in Monte Alto, TX […]
Texas Gulf Coast Vineyard Tour: What Grapes are Those, Ed? They’re our Favorites! This past Thursday, the air was clear and dry and the high sun gave its brightness and warmth to the winter afternoon […]
On the Gulf Coast Wine Trail…Blanc Du Bois Vertical/Horizontal Tasting. Or, Better Tasting Through Chemistry I hit the road again after receiving an invitation from Jerry Watson of Watson Vineyards in Cat Spring, Texas. Jerry […]
Discovering the T.V. Munson Texas-French Grape Legacy on My Own North Forty Some of you may know T.V. Munson, The Grape Man of Texas. He is the horticulturalist/viticulturalist from Texas that correctly identified Texas native […]