Newsom Vineyards Inception: A Legacy Conquers Despair A little over a year ago, I attended a dinner at Llano Estacado Winery‘s new tasting room and events center in Lubbock. In a long list of truly excellent […]
Newsom Vineyards at Comfort: It’s Always Been the Plan A few weeks ago, I linked up on social media with Nolan Newsom, son of Texas winegrowing legends Neal and Janice Newsom of Newsom Vineyards in Plains, […]
Texas Wine’s High Plains A-Team: Newsom, Reddy, Llano Estacado As I disembarked from the plane in Lubbock, I recall thinking that the skies above the Texas high plains are bigger and bluer than just about […]
Bending Branch Winery: Where Bob and John Bring a “Dash of Flash” to the Wine Tasting: New Wine Releases After driving past the cool waters of the Guadalupe River and arriving at Bending Branch Winery […]
Perissos Vineyards and Winery: Harvest Visit It was back in 2010 when I first trekked out to Perissos Vineyards (in the Texas hill country near Burnet, TX) to visit Seth Martin, then a new face […]
Newsom Grape Day & Tempranillo Symposium: Five Things I Leaned About Texas Wine Last Friday was the annual gathering of grape growers and winemakers from around the state in Neal Newsom’s “Barn-atorium” surrounded by his […]
Top Ten New VintageTexas Blogs of 2012 Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey Newsom Vineyards Texas Grape Day 2012 Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet […]
VintageTexas Top Ten Texas Wines of 2012 – Red Wines Moving on from yesterday’s posting of the contingent of five white wines in my 2012 VintageTexas Top Ten Wines (Click here), it’s time to present […]
Pedernales Cellars: Texas Wine Riding a Wave of Success On a damp hazy summer morning, I trekked out from our hill country cottage and was between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on a road that’s taken […]
Newsom Vineyards Texas Grape Day 2012 Texas Growers, Wineries, Wine Aficionados, Consumers…. Newsom Grape Day is scheduled for the 27th of April and will be held at Neal’s barn. For those of you that don’t […]