Sunday at Sandstone Cellars: An Apple for a Drinker to Enjoy Fall is here and it’s time roll out on the highways and byways around Texas stopping in to see old friends and meet new […]
A Brownfield Meet Up: A New Venture (Texas Custom Wine Works) Starts To Ferment It all started one Friday morning this past May: a meet-up in a Wal-Mart parking lot in Brownfield, Texas, with Dusty […]
Hilmy Cellars: New Kids on the Block. Clever Guy and Seriously Good Wines Several months ago now, I received an invitation from Erik Hilmy to do one of my first book signing event at his […]
Pecan Jam: A San Saba Celebration of Texas Wine and Pecan-Filled Foods When Mike McHenry first called me and asked if I would attend the inaugural Pecan Jam Texas Wine and Pecan Festival in San […]
From Tannat to Souzão: Sunday Morning Tasting at Bending Branch Vineyards As I drove from my personal piece of the Texas hill country to Bending Branch Vineyards just a short stretch of road from […]
A Special Day All Around at Perissos Vineyards: After Being Two for Two, I Know When to Stop It’s not news to anyone in Texas, but it’s still hot and very dry. Yesterday was 99 […]
Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Rosé Wines Rosé is simply the French word for “pink” which through the years has been assimilated into our English (and finally American wine) lexicon. True French-style Vin Rosé is not […]
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 […]
Manifesto: Three Lessons for Texas Winemakers to Live By I stopped by for a visit with Kim McPherson, known as “K Mac” to some in Texas; he’s proprietor and winemaker at his McPherson Cellars winery […]
Buffalo Gap W&F Summit: Texas’s Red Dirt & Mesquite Smoke Terroir I left Fredericksburg, Texas, early today as the yellow dawn light filtered through a gray haze cast from west Texas wildfires. I thought, God […]