Know about Texas Cinsault? Let Randy Hester of C.L. Butaud help you.
My Grenache and Cinsault are similar, produced exactly the same way – old school, Rhone-style.
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Food and Wine
These Are a Few of my Favorite Texas Wines I Tasted, 2021 Edition – Part 1
Well, we are at the end of another year. When I look back over the past 12 months, I close
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Oberon Wines: King of Potions and Bordeaux Varietals Grown in Napa Valley
From a 13th century French song, Oberon was known as an elven man of the forest living not far from Bordeaux.
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French Connection Wines: It Takes More Than Wine to Make a Wine Trail – You’ll Find It Here!
It was a warm summer afternoon driving east on Route 290. I approached the hamlet of Hye and made a
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Hamel Family Wines: Sonoma Terroir-Driven Red Wines Are Coming to Texas
Wine Drinking in Texas… If you drive on Route 12 north of the city of Sonoma, California, look to the
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Ab Astris Winery: Route 290 Wine Trail Food & Wine Pairing Reaches New High
It is an understatement to say, at Ab Astris Winery, the food and wine pairing sessions are immersive experiences, both
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Rosé wines from Château de Berne / Ultimate Provence: A Secret Backcountry of Provence Experience
Wine Drinking in Texas… The French region of Provence, while world-famous for its rosé wines, is less appreciated for the
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Sangiovese Two-Ways: A Texas Terroir Tasting (Texas High Plains vs Hill Country)
If you were in France and talked terroir with winegrowers there – for example in Burgundy, Wedding Oak Winery Winemaker
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Kerrville Hills Winery: Another Side of “Johnny Tannat” Rivenburgh – Sagrantino
In recent stories and blog posts on the Internet, you’ve probably seen reference to Texas hill country winemaker John Rivenburgh
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Wedding Oak Winery: Seeing the Future in Red Blends and Roussanne for Texas
Seth Urbanek, the winemaker at Wedding Oak Winery, said “I’ve been making wine for ten years. With three vintages here
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Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green Location Leads the Way into Summer 2021: Part 1
The exciting news in Texas (and particularly in the greater Houston-area) is, Messina Hof Winery just opened a new winery
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Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green Location Leads the Way into Summer 2021: Part 2
As National Wine Day approaches on May 25th, I visited with Messina Hof owners Paul Mitchell and Karen Bonarrigo at
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Texas Heritage Vineyard, Souzao: It’s the Iberian Atlantic Coast in a Bottle
If you haven’t experienced the Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula in Portugal or Spain or their wines, the red
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Messina Hof Winery: Where Wine & Augmented Reality Meet
A box showed up at my house, in it were three bottles of wine – two red and one white.
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4.0 Cellars Rebranded Now Texas Wine Collective Expands Experience
This winter, Texas Wine Collective (formerly 4.0 Cellars in Fredericksburg, Texas on Route 290 East, a collaboration of Lost Oak
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