A Texas Winemaker with a New Mission and Wine: Brock Estes, DANK, Johnny Rojo, a starter wine without training wheels! If you don’t know Brock Estes, it might be hard for you to make a […]
My Cup O’ Texas Chardonnay from Robert Clay Vineyards It was in the dead of winter when I met Dan McLaughlin for the first time at Sandstone Cellars in Mason, Texas. I had seen a […]
The Sip – Season One Shows Its Time to Go Texan or Go Thirsty I exited the bright afternoon Austin street scene through a ruddy red door under a black awning. Not much else other […]
VintageTexas 2012 Top Texas Wines – Honorable Mentions, For Darn Good Reasons Too! As I have learned in previous years, even when I list what I believe to be the ten best Texas wines, there […]
Sunday at Sandstone Cellars: An Apple for a Drinker to Enjoy Fall is here and it’s time roll out on the highways and byways around Texas stopping in to see old friends and meet new […]
Guest Blog: Visual Wine Tasting (The Baker Method) by Jim Baker (TXwineGeek) Some of you may have already seen, the original and follow up posts on “Visual Tasting” by Jim Baker who has the TXwineGeek […]
Austin Food & Wine Fest Sunday, April 29th – What a Texas Wine Panel! A Gold Medal Line Up I’ll admit, when I was asked to assemble a Texas wine panel for the Austin Food […]
Get Your Tickets: Gala Texas Food & Wine Pairing and Book Event Friday Night in Fredericksburg, Texas Texas Hill Country Wine and Music Festival Texas Wine Tasting and Food Pairing Evening with Book Signing Friday […]
What Are Your Favorite Texas Wines of All Time? Here’s Mine! Chef Terry Thompson-Anderson asked me in an email yesterday to name my top ten Texas wines of all time. I don’t know exactly why […]
Texas Hill Country (Wine Country) Pictorial (featuring the photos of Houston-based photographer, James Skogsberg) About a month ago, my wife and I had friends Jim and Lillian Skogsberg out for a visit to our Hill […]