Sneak Peek of Messina Hof Winery 2015 at Vic & Anthony’s Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo, the seventh generation winemaker in the Bonarrigo family, addressed the assemblage at Vic & Anthony’s Steak House in Houston to taste […]
News: Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo Receives UC Davis Winemaking Certificate The credentials and winemaking accolades of Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo, son of Paul V. and Merrill Bonarrigo and heir-apparent at Messina Hof Winery, continue to grow. As […]
Austin Food & Wine Festival April 27, 2013: Texas Wines – Ready for the Main Stage The 2013 Austin Food & Wine Festival is coming up fast and on Saturday morning April 27, 2013, […]
TXwine Twitter Tuesday Celebrates Texas Wine Month and Oktoberfest with Messina Hof Winery and Saint Arnold and Real Ale Breweries Austin’s Denise Fraser (@DeniseFraser) and Matt McGinnis (@MattMcGinnis), and Houston’s Jeff Cope (@TXwineLover) and I […]
Texsom 2012 “Be There or Be Square”: August 11-13, 2012 You may remember the line “Be there, or be square” from The Wiz, the modern-day version of the Wizard of Oz. Well, this line could […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Canadian Ice Wine My wife and I are up in the western Canadian high country on a little business and pleasure in Lake Louise (in Baniff National Park). I bet […]
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 […]
2010 Top Ten Texas Wines from VintageTexas: Installment #2 Llano Estacado, Viviana, 2009 I tasted this wine at a Texas wine dinner at the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station and once more since […]
Texas Wine Selections from VintageTexas Blogger, Russ Kane, Featured on CulinaryThymes.com October is Texas Wine Month: Celebrate the Grand 2010 Grape Harvest by guest blogger Russ Kane, wine writer and aficionado from VintageTexas.com What better way to […]
Ten Things I Learned at the 2010 GrapeFest: People’s Choice Texas Wine Competition I was optimistic when I opened my front door Thursday morning in Houston and entered my car for the drive up to […]