At the end of the session, one gentleman who at first had been ultra-resistant to the whole idea of Texas Wines summed up the feelings of the crowd by asking, “Why don’t you just get Robert Parker (www.erobertparker.com) to rate these wines? That would get the word out, once and for all, about just how good Texas wines can be.” […]
Time to Saddle Up for the 2009 Harvest Wine Trail Win Tickets on This Year’s Hill Country Harvest Trail Two Weekends Aug 14-16 & 21-23 , 2009 The verve of the wine industry in The […]
Increase Your Wine Knowledge: A Ten Step Program I recently saw an article that addressed this issue, but for beer. It was on the website www.accidentalhedonist.com. I decided to compose the following list with the necessary […]
Write-Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – August 1, 2009 TEXSOM & DrinkLocalWine: Excellent wine two-fer in Dallas in mid-August By Kim Pierce Mid-August is an excellent time to polish your wine creds with two […]
I’m All Ears about Texas Wines and I am Giving Away Prizes NOTE: The deadline to comment to this blog is August 2, 2009. Don’t delay. You can win a free private tour and tasting […]
Live Wine Blogging from the Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma and Soon from Dallas, Texas By Kori ~ July 24th, 2009 @ 2:30pm – “Dad (John), Colby, and I are here at the Wine Bloggers […]
Write Off the Vine – Texas Wine News: July 23, 2009 [to comment click icon in upper right] Texas Wine Industry Continues to Grow – Not Just Another Harvest Texas Commissioner of Agriculture, Todd Staples, […]
Lineage of the Blanc du Bois Grape Following my previous blog on harvesting the Blanc du Bois at Union Chappel Vineyards in Fulshear, Texas, “Ronebofh” on the LiveJournal wine community (http://community.livejournal.com/wine) requested some additional information on […]
Grape Harvest Days are Here Again….in Texas! It’s July, it’s Texas and again it is time to start the grape harvest. Can it be? Compared to Texas, in most wine producing regions things happen […]
Why Celebrate Texas Independence with a Glass of French Champagne? Texas history is rife with tales and legends. At times, it is hard to know the difference between historical fact and its embellishments. One such […]