Sister Creek 2010 Muscat Canelli, Texas Appellation: The Original’s Back It’s been a rough few years for the Texas wine industry and especially the grape growers. Late spring freezes, untimely rain and episodes hail. That’s […]
Texas Twitter Tales – Notes on Texas Wines from the World of Social Media Its good to see how many people are using the hashtag #TXwine to tag their tweets…. For those of you not […]
VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Muscat Canelli, First Wine to Show True Texas Terroir Muscat Canelli with its floral, heady aromas is often called a “seductive” white grape. Muscat Canelli is known under a variety of […]
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 […]
Shout Out to Texas Wineries that Garnered Medals at the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition The 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition, the largest, most influential international wine competition in America, was judged by […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Frizzante An Italian term meaning slightly carbonated or sparkling. It is the same as what in French is known as “pétillant”. Many wines (white, rosé and red) are bottled frizzante […]
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 […]
Frencesco Quaglia: The Man at Val Verde Winery that Gave Texas Wine Heading east from Marathon, I looked out from the road and the isolation in this part of Texas provided me little to announce […]
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 […]
A Different Texas Chip with My Texas Wine I am always on the lookout for new things to pair with Texas wines particularly if they are also from Texas. I think I found something here: A […]