Video: Texas Sangiovese, the Warm Climate Pinot Noir Sangiovese is universally acknowledged as one of the great grapes of Italy and is the principal grape used in producing Chianti in Tuscany. The grape normally produces […]
Grape Creek Vineyards Vintner Dinner at Chef Burtwell’s Cabernet Grill Texas Hill Country wines are rapidly becoming what can be referred to as “the whole deal, the real deal, and the big deal”; something similar […]
Video: Viognier, Roussanne and Blanc du Bois: The Three Sisters of Texas Wines Ever think of Texas as a Chardonnay kind of place? I didn’t think so. It can be grown in Texas and even does […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 2 Continued from: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=790 In my search to define Texas terroir [the sense of place], I often stop to listen for voices of the human […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 1 The Beginnings Eons ago its genesis was in a vast and desolate inland sea predating human consciousness; a wet and hostile place. At an […]
Best of VintageTexas: 2009 Highlights (so far) Drinking a Bit of Texas History “As Texans and settler transplants have realized for over the past hundred and fifty years, parts of Texas have been this county’s last […]
Get Your Toes in the Vineyard; Take a Texas Wine Trail Tour GO TEXAN WineCast with Susan Auler from Fall Creek Vineyards Part of my mission on VintageTexas is to make people that either live […]
DrinkLocalWine.com To Host First “Local Wine” Conference GO TEXAN Proudly Sponsors DrinkLocalWine.com Conference Dedicated to Regional Wines Russ Kane of VintageTexas to Moderate Texas Twitter Taste-Off DrinkLocalWine.com, the Web site that focuses on North American […]
Sienna Sip and Stroll: Pinot Gringos and All Their “Trick Wines” Entry 2 from the Grand Wine and Food Affair I was aware at the Grand Wine and Food Affair’s grand tasting held the previous […]
VintageTexas “Wineslinger” Shoots Six Straight In Grand Tasting Friday evening the Grand Tasting at the Grand Wine and Food Affair was held in Sugar Land, Texas (just southwest of Houston). It was definitely a “Grand […]