Cinsault
Know about Texas Cinsault? Let Randy Hester of C.L. Butaud help you.
My Grenache and Cinsault are similar, produced exactly the same way – old school, Rhone-style. […]
Mediterranean
cooking
Pontotoc Vineyards 2011 San Fernando Academy: A Fusion of All the Senses
Pontotoc Vineyard 2011 San Fernando Academy: A Fusion of All the Senses I’d tasted this wine once with winemaker Don Pullum during his visit to our hill country cottage for dinner. After that, I was […]
cooking
A Tale of Two (or More) Texas Rosés on a Hot “Summer” Afternoon
A Tale of Two (or More) Texas Rosés on a Hot “Summer” Afternoon It’s Summer in Houston! Well, technically, we may not have yet reached Tuesday, June 21st, 2011 (the coming first day of summer […]
Events
Amphora Wines: “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet”
Amphora Wines: “That which we call a rose, by any other name would smell as sweet” This quotation by William Shakespeare certainly played in my mind last Saturday morning when I joined Austin-based, wine writer […]
grape growing
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: What do Sicily and Texas Have in Common?
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: What do Sicily and Texas Have in Common? Sicily, the largest of the Mediterranean islands, is one of the top three wine regions of Italy. Historically, its most famous wine […]
Conferences and Seminars
PREDICTION: Tempranillo Will Factor Greatly into Texas’s Wine Future; New Texas TAPAS Chapter
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 […]
grape growing
Finally, It's Time for Some Corroboration of My Prognostication on Tex-Med Wines
Finally, It’s Time for Some Corroboration of My Prognostication on Tex-Med Wines I hate to say I told you so, but going way back to one of my first major articles about Texas wines, I […]
Field Blogging
Texas Wines Through the Looking Glass
Texas Wines Through the Looking Glass It’s late October and Alice is sitting on a slab of Texas limestone next to a riverbank in the Texas hill country, when she notices a rabbit run past. […]
Conferences and Seminars
Its Time to Join Us for Texas TAPAS: Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society Starting a Chapter in Texas
(Video: See why Tempranillo is so good for Texas wine growers winemakers and consumers) Its Time to Join Us for Texas TAPAS: Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society Starting a Chapter in Texas Are you […]
grape growing
Texas in the Vineyard: Perissos Vineyard, Abundant Beyond Expectations
Texas in the Vineyard: Perissos Vineyard, Abundant Beyond Expectations In the hot heavy August heat, the 2010 Texas grape harvest season has been in full swing for over a month and it will likely carry […]