What do the New Acres of Texas Grapes Hold in Store for Wine Consumers? In my previous blog post (Texas Wines Heading South? What Texans Can Learn From The Texas Grape Production and Variety Survey), […]
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 […]
VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vintage Charts Vintage refers to the annual grape harvest and to the wine made from those grapes. In general, every year is a vintage year and all wines are vintage wines […]
VintageTexas Cyclopedia of Wine: The Wine Grape Called Picpoul Pronounced “peek-pool” (also spelled Piquepoul), this variety of white wine grape is cultivated in the Southern Rhone and Languedoc regions of France (http://www.terroir-france.com/wine/regions.htm). It is known […]
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 […]
From Mediterranean Shores to Mason County Sands: Act I – A French Connection In the 6th century BC, long before any of the major wine producing regions of France had been established, the Phoenician Greeks […]
Terroir: A “Land – Man” Conjunction Earlier this year, I visited the Texas High Plains to observe the grape harvest. As I chronicled my trip and experience on this blog, I had an intimate awareness […]
Mysterious Alchemy – The Aging of Wine: Part 3 Three Part Guest Blog by Michael Vilim Michael Vilim is an Austin-based restaurateur with two first-class restaurants: Mirabelle and Castle Hill Cafe. He also serves on […]
Mysterious Alchemy – The Aging of Wine Three Part Guest Blog by Michael Vilim Michael Vilim is an Austin-based restaurateur with two first-class restaurants: Mirabelle and Castle Hill Cafe. He also serves on the Board […]