LightCatcher Winery: The Tasting – Sangria Summer Port Caris and I got to talking about how wine should be fun. Sometimes wine writers get hung up focusing mostly on dry wines like Cabernets and Chardonnays […]
LightCatcher Winery: A Touch a Wine Magic From the awards LightCatcher’s co-owner and winemaker, Caris Turpen, has garnered in her short winemaking career, one has to say that she is doing something right. Is it […]
Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting While at the winery, I spied this bottle of the award winning 2002 Barking Rocks, Newsom Vineyard Cabernet Sauvignon still sporting its gold medal. This must have been a omen […]
Hark! Hark! The Rocks do Bark. The winemakers have come to town. This aberration of the old 16th century English poem my Mother taught me as a child was going through my mind as I […]
What Texas Wine Goes with the “Big Apple” It was a brisk fall evening in Manhattan when we arrived at Trio Restaurant and Wine Bar. I had arrived in the “Big Apple” the previous day to […]
22nd Annual GrapeFest People’s Choice Awards Thousands of wine enthusiasts cast their votes for their preferred Texas wines at this year’s 22nd Annual GrapeFest during the Chesapeake Energy People’s Choice Wine Tasting Classic. The […]
Drink Texas…Save “Food Miles” gives a new meaning to the saying…”Drink Responsibly”. After a prolonged period of consistently low oil prices, we are now facing a new situation – an age where companies and countries […]
Evidently some of you missed my posting of the results from the “Who Knows Their Texas Wines” Quiz (https://vintagetexas.com/?p=40) as comments at the bottom of the quiz posting. Sorry for the confusion. Well, here goes…. get […]
Robert Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide Features Texas Wines The recently released 7th edition of Parker’s Wine Buyer’s Guide has added a new chapter “East of the West Coast”. This chapter covers wines from all states […]
Texas Wineries Grow Up, Beat the Heat, Seek Their Own Styles Review by John Mariani Bloomberg.com — Before you start scratching your head over the idea that Texas even makes wine, consider these stats: Texas […]