Guilty As Charged. Texas WineSlinger Admits, “I Drink Foreign Wine” Yep! That’s right, I said it. It is a full admission. But, why? You would be amazed at some of the emails that I receive. […]
A Meet-Up on the Texas Wine Trail and Visit to Vineyards in Alpine, Texas Over the past year, I have read many historical accounts from travelers on horseback or stagecoach moving through Texas. Some of […]
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 […]
Brownfield, Texas: No Way! Been There and its Green with the Vines of Texas Wine Grapes We gathered in Brownfield, Texas, Yesterday. What you’ve never heard of it? Never seen it in the Atlas of […]
Dry Desert and Good Texas Wine Meet at Monte Sec Vineyard A pale orange sunset backlit the darkening city with a ribbon of city lights dotting a path between the mountains to what the Spanish […]
VintageTexas 2009 Texas Best Wines During the past year, I had the chance to taste a number of Texas wines. This included two wine competitions, a twitter taste-off and on the wine trail on the […]
Looking at the World through a Glass of Rosé Looking around this place, it has characteristics like many places on the Texas Gulf Coast: Wind-blown palm trees, blooming bougainvillea, and cadres of dogs on leash […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]
VintageTexas “Wineslinger” Shoots Six Straight In Grand Tasting Friday evening the Grand Tasting at the Grand Wine and Food Affair was held in Sugar Land, Texas (just southwest of Houston). It was definitely a “Grand […]
Earth, Wind and High Plains Vines Entry 3 – Conclusion of the High Plains Planting Tour Continued from: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=656 Caravanning across the Texas High Plains, our group included representatives from California, Kansas and Arizona along […]