A Meet-Up on the Texas Wine Trail and Visit to Vineyards in Alpine, Texas Over the past year, I have read many historical accounts from travelers on horseback or stagecoach moving through Texas. Some of […]
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 […]
Brownfield, Texas: No Way! Been There and its Green with the Vines of Texas Wine Grapes We gathered in Brownfield, Texas, Yesterday. What you’ve never heard of it? Never seen it in the Atlas of […]
Sweet Jesus…..This is Definitely NOT California Wine Country Guest Blog: Steven Krueger, Resort Sommelier, The Westin La Cantera Resort http://www.westinlacantera.com/dining I have found myself adding more and more Texas wines to our wine list to the point where […]
Need More Good Wines in California (and Texas): Blame Varietals I recently read a good blog on why in the day of modern technology we don’t have more good wines that can be grown in […]
What Texas Wines do you Serve to Napa Valley Winegrowers? Saturday evening, we hosted a wonderful dinner party for Chuck and Lisa Reid. They are long time friends and Texans that live in Houston this part […]
Landon 2008 Tempranilllo, Bingham Family Vineyards: The New Fave Wine I Found on a Bus Last night, I was herded onto a bus along with many other attendees at the Texas Wine and Grape Growers […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: January 31, 2010 Texas 2009 Vintage Report from Wines and Vines by Ed Hellman, Viticulture extension specialist with contributions by regional viticulture advisors: Penny Adams, Fran Pontasch, […]
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 […]
Ten Things We Learned at #DLW09 Conference & Taste-Off and #Texsom Last weekend I attended the GO TEXAN DrinkLocalWine.com Conference (www.drinklocalwine.com) and Twitter Taste-Off (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=1083) and the Texas Sommelier Conference (www.texsom.com) in Dallas Texas. As my […]