Quiz
Wine Quiz #2 – Know your Italian Wines
Wine Quiz #2 – Know your Italian Wines 1. What is the most famous red wine grape varietal used in Tuscany? A. Asti Spumante B. Vin Santo C. Sangiovese D. Marsala 2. Chianti is which […]
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News
VintageTexas to Review Wines
Wine Reviews on VintageTexas Vintage Texas is pleased to announce that has started reviewing wines from Texas and wine from the expanding wine world that may be of particular interest to Texans. It also provides […]
Great Places & People
Anemone’s Knees & the Yelp of the Kelp
Anemone’s Knees & the Yelp of the Kelp – A Wine from Texas On a stop after the Wine Bloggers Conference, we got some R&R in Half Moon Bay on the Pacific coast just south of […]
Events
Texas Ports of Call – Port, Food, and Chocolate Pairing Ideas
Texas Ports of Call – Port, Food, and Chocolate Pairing Ideas from Messina Hof Winery & Resort NOTE: A Vintage Texas blog reader recently posted a comment that requested information on pairing chocolate and wine. […]
Conferences and Seminars
Off to the Wine Bloggers Conference
Off to the Wine Bloggers Conference in Sonoma We left yesterday for California and had the distinct pleasure to stay in Napa Valley at the home of our friends from Houston – Chuck and Lisa […]
Texas Wine Drinking
LightCatcher Winery: The Tasting
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 […]
Great Places & People
LightCatcher Winery: A Touch a Magic
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 […]
Texas Wine Drinking
Barking Rocks Winery: The Tasting
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 […]
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Hark! Hark! The Rocks do Bark….
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 […]
Events
What Texas Wine Goes with the "Big Apple"
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 […]