Local wine
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from VintageTexas
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays from VintageTexas
Year: 2014
Best of Vintage Texas Blog
Part 2 – 2014 Top Texas Wines that Titillated My Taste Buds List
2014 Top Texas Wines that Titillated My Taste Buds List (Part 2) Well, I think that we’re about half way through my list. Memories keep popping-up and neurons flashing in my brain that keep reminding […]
Best of Vintage Texas Blog
Part 1 – 2014 Top Texas Wines that Titillated My Taste Buds List
2014 Top Texas Wines that Titillated My Taste Buds List (Part 1) As in previous years, if you recall, the year finishes with lists of “Best Texas Wines” and then the discussion starts about why […]
grape growing
Your Guide to the Texas Hill Country Wine Experience
Your Guide to the Texas Hill Country Wine Experience The Texas Hill Country Wineries have roots as old as any around. Texas grapes grow in soils made from ancient calcareous sea deposits, similar to many […]
Events
Texas Hill Country Wineries – December 2014 Newsletter
Texas Hill Country Wineries – December 2014 Newsletter Reprinted by permission of Texas Hill Country Wineries (click here). Holiday Wine Kick-0ff Tasting at Flat Creek Estate Join us THIS Friday! Friday, December 5, 6-8pm – […]
Great Places & People
New Book from Doc Russ Texas WineSlinger on the Texas Hill Country Wineries
New Book from Doc Russ Texas WineSlinger on the Texas Hill Country Wineries Upon reviewing my previous best-selling book, The WineSlinger Chronicles: Texas on the Vine, international wine luminary Oz Clarke rattled off the following […]
grape growing
Need Some Muscrat Love? It’s at Kerrville Hills Winery
Need Some Muscrat Love? It’s at Kerrville Hills Winery I like this Kerrville Hills Muscrat Love wine for several reasons. The first reason is because at the first public wine tasting that I think that […]
Local wine
Is Texas Wine Like Orange Juice?
Is Texas Wine Like Orange Juice? A friend of mine related the following story to me with the caveat that many wineries were likely tired of hearing people like Andrew Chalk (click here) and I […]
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
2015 Houston Rodeo Uncorks The Best in Texas: Driftwood Estate Winery Longhorn Red 2012
2015 Houston Rodeo Uncorks The Best in Texas: Driftwood Estate Winery Longhorn Red 2012 Well, it’s official. The 2015 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition just released the results of their top award […]
Events
Tonight 7 pm – Join Us for International Tempranillo Day Twitter Tasting
Tonight 7 pm – Join Us for International Tempranillo Day Twitter Tasting Well, wake up and get out of bed! It’s International Tempranillo Day! People around the world rejoice. Tempranillo (the national red grape of […]
Events
November 7-9: News Flash – Texas Hill Country Wineries on Instagram
November 7-9: News Flash – Texas Hill Country Wineries on Instagram This Thursday November 7th through Sunday November 9th, the Texas hill country wineries will be featured on Instagram. I have been selected to take […]
Events
November 2014 #TXwine Twitter Thursday – Tempranillo Day Event
November 2014 #TXwine Twitter Thursday – Tempranillo Day Event Writer, blogger and food/wine commentator, Andrew Chalk at www.cravedfw.com has put Texas Tempranillos to the test (click here). For consumers, he recommends “Consider a Texas Tempranillo […]
grape growing
Tastes of Badia a Coltibuono: Wines that Entwine The Past and Future of Chianti Classico
Tastes of Badia a Coltibuono: Wines that Entwine The Past and Future of Chianti Classico I recently tasted a selection of wines of Badia a Coltibuono and met its general manager and winemaker Roberto Stucchi-Prinetti, […]
Events
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo First Wine Country Tour Visits the Texas Hill Country
Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo’s First Wine Country Tour Visits the Texas Hill Country By now, most of you know October is Texas Wine Month. Well, it could have been no better time than this […]
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Winners at the 2014 Austin County Wine Show
Winners at the 2014 Austin County Wine Show I once spoke with Texas high plains winegrower Neal Newsom about the differences in growing grapes for wine and growing other crops like hay and cotton. He […]