Llano Estacado Winery’s Best Wines Keep Coming: Viviano and 1836 While many of the recent accolades for the Texas wine industry have come from relative newcomers with boutique wineries, it’s good to see that long […]
VintageTexas Top Ten Texas Wines of 2012 – Red Wines Moving on from yesterday’s posting of the contingent of five white wines in my 2012 VintageTexas Top Ten Wines (Click here), it’s time to present […]
Who’s Responsible for the National Sweet Red Wine Trend….Llano Estacado Winery? Friend and wine writing colleague, Jeff Siegel – aka The Wine Curmudgeon, sent me this almost washed out PDF of an article crediting the […]
Top Ten Texas Wines of 2011 from VintageTexas: Installment #2 – Next Five Wines I’ve already given you my standard disclaimer and warning in Installment #1 for my top ten wines of 2011. Basically, these […]
When Wineslingers Meet, Some Wine is Likely to Get Spilled Tuesday night was the night, Houston was the place, and Patranella’s Italian Restaurant near the newly developed Washington Avenue strip was the venue. That’s where […]
Valdicava Brunello 2001! Does Texas Have Anything that Comes Close? Well, here I am again at Texas Winedrinkers Anonymous (TWA). I have to confess something. Last night, I had a moment of weakness while at […]
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 […]
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 […]
Dry Desert and Good Texas Wine Meet at Monte Sec Vineyard A pale orange sunset backlit the darkening city with a ribbon of city lights dotting a path between the mountains to what the Spanish […]