Newsom Vineyards Inception: A Legacy Conquers Despair A little over a year ago, I attended a dinner at Llano Estacado Winery‘s new tasting room and events center in Lubbock. In a long list of truly excellent […]
Texas Wine’s High Plains A-Team: Newsom, Reddy, Llano Estacado As I disembarked from the plane in Lubbock, I recall thinking that the skies above the Texas high plains are bigger and bluer than just about […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News & Videos – October 21, 2010 How To Host a Texas Two-Sip A Texas Two-Sip tasting is a blind tasting of Texas wines alongside comparable non-Texas wines from […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – September 15, 2010 Social Media and Wine The Wine Curmudgeon Social media is supposed to save the wine business. The problem? The wine business doesn’t understand social […]
A Bit of France Comes to Texas Via New Mexico; Hopefully a Bit More of Texas Will Reach the Rest of America, Too This might not be a French Chateau, but inside this simple winery […]
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 […]
A Comparative Tasting: Premium White Blends – Viviana, Alluvium Blanc and Conundrum Viviana – A wine alive and well with Texas heat… The hot days of Texas summer are upon us. What better thing to […]
Look for the Texas Wine Lots at the 24th Annual Rare & Fine Wine Auction this Saturday Presented by the Wine and Food Foundation of Texas Saturday, April 18, 2009 Four Seasons […]
Texas Winemakers Gather their Pluck ….The Race for a Place on Restaurant Wine Lists is On! Ever go to your favorite restaurant and have a dark, inky East Texas Bordeaux blend with your Steak Au […]