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[ September 30, 2022 ] Celebrating National Port Wine Day with Kopke, the Oldest Port wine house in the World Great Places & People
[ September 20, 2022 ] Texas Fine Wine Tasting Stops: Bending Branch / Duchman Wineries Know How to Make Red Blends with an Innovative Twist Aglianico
[ September 13, 2022 ] Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop at Saint Tryphon: Delightfully crisp to chunky, gritty & serious Albarino
[ August 20, 2022 ] From Matt McGinnis @BigThirst: Texas Wineries Report – “An Outstanding Wine Grape Harvest” in Progress, but Coming to an Early Completion. Cinsault
[ August 18, 2022 ] Last Call for Fall 2022 Specialist of Texas Wine Certification Class: Learn Texas Wine from the Man Who Wrote the Book on It! grape growing

We Ate Our Black-eyed Peas (And Sampled Some Wine) At William Chris Vineyards

January 2, 2013 admin 0

We Ate Our Black-eyed Peas (And Sampled Some Wine) At William Chris Vineyards We drove into Fredericksburg on Monday afternoon knowing that cold weather was coming (with some much needed rain) and our car’s battery […]

Port-Style Wines: Not Just for Old Fogeys Anymore! Ports Come in Chocolate and Pink!

November 28, 2012 admin 2

Port-Style Wines: Not Just for Old Fogeys Anymore! My new Texas Wineslinger wine column on Lubbockonline.com went live tonight (click here). It was a bit of a free form narrative titled “Texas Has Many Ports […]

The Winemaker that Mark Penna Just Never Ran Off

November 24, 2012 admin 1

The Winemaker that Mark Penna Just Never Ran Off This week, in my Texas wine column in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal and on lubbockonline.com (click here), I interviewed Duchman Family Winery winemaker Dave Reilly. He […]