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 Dinner Event at Flat Creek Estate in Marble Falls, Featured Speaker Russ Kane (VintageTexas) The Greater Houston Chapter of The Wine Society of Texas will be celebrating Fall in the Falls Part 2, in […]
Bless the Grapes. Now, Let the Harvesting Begin! With Video It was early today when I picked up some provisions at Starbucks and picked up my daughter Caroline in Pearland, Texas. Our plans were to […]
My Messina Hof Winery Harvest Dinner It was sure hot today in Houston. It seemed even hotter than the 108 F heat index since I was scurrying to get done what I needed to do […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – June 22, 2010 Plano’s Patrick Davies Produces Award-Winning Wines Raise a glass to Plano homeboy, Patrick Davies the young turk winemaker for Eagle Castle Winery in Paso […]
2010 Lone Star International Wine Competition Brings New Experiences for Texas Wines, Wineries and Judges I have been a judge in the Lone Star wine competitions in Grapevine, Texas, (https://www.grapevinetexasusa.com) many years ago, but just got […]
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 […]
What better way to appreciate wine and food in Texas but through a common appreciation of dogs. To be specific, last night’s Texas wine and food experience would not have happened but for such a situation. A WOW evening with a private chef is something that really get used to, and fine Texas wine to boot! […]
Lineage of the Blanc du Bois Grape Following my previous blog on harvesting the Blanc du Bois at Union Chappel Vineyards in Fulshear, Texas, “Ronebofh” on the LiveJournal wine community (http://community.livejournal.com/wine) requested some additional information on […]
Video: Texas Port-Style and Dessert Wines – The Perfect Ending but Possibly Much More In the sixth and final Texas wine webcast, Merrill Bonarrigo of the Messina Hof Winery in Bryan, Texas, discusses Port, […]