“Texas Bays are a magnificent resource, shallow and brackish and marshy-bordered and rich with life …. The flat land runs to the flat bays, and beyond the flat sandy islands is the blue flat Gulf.” – John Graves, in The Water Hustlers, 1971 The sandy Texas coastal region is…
The Wine in Spain Comes Mainly with the Cuisine – 2 Thus far, I have focused on only the food of Spain but, Spain is a wine drinking country and the food sets a wonderful stage for their wine. Like France, each region producing its own special style of wine. A best kept…
The Wine in Spain Comes Mainly with the Cuisine News Flash [Update 9-9-10] If You Love Spanish-style wines, Its Time to Join Us for Texas TAPAS: Tempranillo Advocates Producers and Amigos Society Starting a Chapter in Texas; See: http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=2363 Somewhere I have read: “Food is so deliciously exciting in Spain that…
The Judgment of Houston – 3 In early May, a post competition taste-off of the top ten scoring Texas wines was held at the Grand Wine & Food Affair in Fort Bend County Texas. This was a winner-take-all public event where the attendees tasted and voted for their single favorite…
The major conclusion of the “Judgment of Houston” was readily evident in the rankings of the top scoring wines and how the top Texas wines placed with respect to the non-Texas ringers. The judges did their job well. They correctly identified all of the non-Texas ringers to be worthy of…
The Judgment of Houston – 1 Rewind about thirty wine years to the mid-1970’s……France was king of wine and California was clamoring for credit. Then, on May 24, 1976, Harpers Wine and Spirit Weekly Magazine staged a double-blind tasting event that they called “The Great Cabernet Conundrum”. This competition involved…
After spending a day in Chateauneuf de Pape and a tasting at Chateau le Nerthe, we drove on to Gigondas farther up the road. The wines from this area are some of my favorites, a little lighter than found in Chateauneuf with a delightful interplay of darkberry fruits, dry dusty…
Why would someone that has a love affair with Texas go to southern France (particularly with the exchange rate situation)? Simply put….to experience things Mediterranean and “wine culture”, first hand. Well, guess what? This region of France appears to offer many things that we have right here in…
