Texas Blanc Du Bois Four Ways in 2013 Haak Vineyards & Winery Blanc Du Bois Scored High at Tasting Panel Magazine Two Blanc Du Bois wines from Haak Vineyards and Winery (Santa Fe, TX) scored […]
Pontotoc Vineyard 2011 San Fernando Academy: A Fusion of All the Senses I’d tasted this wine once with winemaker Don Pullum during his visit to our hill country cottage for dinner. After that, I was […]
Direct-To-Consumer Shipping Report 2012 – Texas and Non-California Roll-up Biggest Increases In this most recent annual report (2012 Shipping-Report) by from ShipCompliant and Wines & Vines, there are some really interesting facts about where Texas […]
Narin’s Bombay Brasserie Wine Dinner: It’s Time to Set Aside Some of the Old Rules, Get Some New When asked how does Indo-Asian wine pairing compare to the meat-dominated western approaches (e.g. red meat, red […]
VintageTexas Sunday Cyclopedia of Wine: Botrytis Cinerea Could a rot by any other name, be so sweet? Only if it known by its other names: Pourriture Noble (in France) or Edelfaule (in Germany). In any […]
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 […]
Small Scale Winemakers Symposium: May 5, 2012 in Cat Spring, Texas The Grape Growers Committee of Austin County will be sponsoring a Small Scale Wine Makers Symposium on Saturday, May 5, 2012, at the Cat […]
A True California Wine Country (High Country) Experience: Cannabis Cuvées Source: The Daily Beast…Apr 14, 2012 Wines fermented with weed were a novelty in the early 1980s, but now quite a few California winemakers are […]
And What a Year It Was! Tales from 20th Gulf Coast Grape Growers Day Gulf Coast grape growers and an increasing assemblage of the grape-growing-curious assembled at the historical Cat Spring Ag Society Hall last […]
Old World Charm, New World Adventure – The Wines of Alamosa Wine Cellars The other day, after tasting a set of three wines from Alamosa Wine Cellars, I was reading in my Sotherby’s Wine Encyclopedia… […]