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Wedding Oak Winery Award-Winning Rosé and Red Wines are the Stars of Summer

July 9, 2024 admin 0

“There’s nothing more refreshing than a chilled glass of rosé wine on a hot summer day in Texas. Make award-winning Wedding Oak Winery Rosés the stars of your Texas summer,” says Mike McHenry, owner of […]

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Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Hilmy Cellars Welcomes You to a Special Place with Special Wines

December 1, 2023 admin 0

On your next Texas Hill Country road trip, there’s a “tasting stop” you need to make. It’s located on north side of Route 290 at the midpoint between Fredericksburg and Johnson City, Texas, a 20-minute […]

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Food and Wine

Dotson~Cervantes Something Red: And, Definitely Worth the Wait

October 1, 2014 admin 5

Dotson~Cervantes Something Red: And, Definitely Worth the Wait We met in Mason on a Saturday in September not really knowing much more than what Alphonse Dotson told me over the phone earlier in the week. […]

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Best of Vintage Texas Blog

VintageTexas Top Ten Texas Wines of 2012 – Red Wines

December 19, 2012 admin 2

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 […]

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Local wine

VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Cold Soak or Extended Maceration

July 3, 2011 admin 9

VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Cold Soak versus Extended Maceration Maceration is a winemaking process whereby the phenolic materials of the grape (tannins, coloring agents (anthocyanins) and many flavor/aroma compounds) are extracted from the grape […]

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Great Places & People

Sniffing and Swirling: It’s the 1st Premium Açai Wine

April 13, 2011 admin 0

Sniffing and Swirling: It’s the 1st Premium Açaí Wine I’ve had more than a few trips to Brazil. So many, that I sometimes default to the local spelling of Brasil. I’ve savored the scent of […]

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It's a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead

September 3, 2010 VintageTexas 5

It’s a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead I just saw the Brix number’s posted on the Bingham Family Vineyards website (actually a link from their Twitter post […]

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grape growing

VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Claret

July 11, 2010 VintageTexas 0

VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Claret A widely used wine term meaning, in most countries except England, a light red wine. However, in England and as used by many wine aficionados, the word traditionally refers […]

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Great Places & People

2010 Lone Star International Wine Competition Brings New Experiences for Texas Wines, Wineries and Judges

June 9, 2010 VintageTexas 0

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 […]

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A Little Bull, Country Western Honky Tonkin’ and a Glass or Two of Texas “Chardonnay” at Brennan Vineyards

March 24, 2010 VintageTexas 3

A Little Bull, Country Western Honky Tonkin’ and a Glass or Two of Texas “Chardonnay” at Brennan Vineyards During my recent sit in the Brennan Vineyards (www.brennanvineyards.com) tasting room in Comanche, Texas, while I was trying […]

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