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 […]
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 […]
Texas Sommeliers, Wine Experts Select Top Lone Star Wines …In the honor of our Texas heritage, I’ll be so bold as to as to say, “Remember Tempranillo…Remember Blanc Du Bois!” On Monday, January 17th, I […]
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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
What’s with Wines from Ste. Genevieve: They’re Enjoyable, Inexpensive, Medal Winning and Good with Summertime Fare Wine people give lots of play to finding the absolute best wine possible. However, I recently read a series […]
La Proprietà del Vino di Estate (The Estate of the Summer Wine) Two weeks ago I blogged about need for good summertime wines in Texas. See: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1711 You know, if there is one thing in […]
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 […]
Snakes on the Plains: Texas Rattlesnake and Texas Wine Any of you that have seen the Samuel L. Jackson movie “Snakes on a Plane” or even just the movie’s trailer (see below) knows the feeling […]