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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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
The Search for Texas Terroir on the High Plains
High Plains Harvest Tour In a matter of just a few hours from Houston by airplane, I left behind this vast and humid urban center and stepped off a plane in Lubbock, Texas on the […]
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Texas High Plains Tour
Most wine producing regions have a cool body of water on their west coast (e.g. France, Chile, California, etc). This produces a cooling effect that depresses in night time temperatures. This cooling effect is critical […]
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Flat Creek Estate…A Heaven on Earth Winery
A Trip to Flat Creek Estate Winery The morning was truly a wonderful Texas Hill country morning….70 degrees, clear and bone dry. I was in my car with the top open and trying to navigate […]
Great Places & People
Texas Icons – The Aulers of Fall Creek Vineyards
Texas Icons – The Aulers of Fall Creek Vineyards Texas is noted for its icons (people, places and things). Its iconic people helped forge Texas into a unique spot in the Universe. This is particularly true […]