A couple weeks ago, I was driving through Comfort, Texas, and to my left I saw an old friend. It was a friend that I first met in 2008 at the Newsom family’s Rock’n-N B&B […]
“There’s nothing more refreshing than a chilled glass of rosé wine on a hot summer day in Texas. Make award-winning Wedding Oak Winery Rosés the stars of your Texas summer,” says Mike McHenry, owner of […]
Back in 2015, I did a survey of favorite Texas white and red wines. I recently found the images that showed the results from that survey. So, I decided to do it again. But, I […]
A fellow Texas Wine Blogger – Melanie Ofenloch (Dallas Wine Chick) recently explored Uruguayan Tannat on her blog. She attended a Tannat Masterclass webinar hosted by Peter Granoff MS and came away with an interesting […]
Summertime is about many things: outdoor activities, music festivals, sports, holidays, celebrations, and gatherings. For foodies, summer signals the start of barbecue season. It’s nothing fancy, just friends and family gathering in the backyard or […]
The Wine Society of Texas announces its 2024 Scholarship Program Awards totaling $10,000 to students for assistance in wine and winery education, internship or field study in Texas, research work as it pertains to grape […]
In advance of the 2024 Fredericksburg Food & Wine Festival, the Fredericksburg Chamber of Commerce has released the official schedule of events for the first-ever ‘Preview Week,’ slated to take place from July 22nd – […]
While this was originally intended to be a Reflection for Mother’s Day by Stephanie Franklin visionary leader and CEO of Fly Wines, it has just as much importance today, tomorrow and thereafter as it did […]
By and large, when the word “Tempranillo” is spoken, most wine-minds go immediately to the hearty red wines (vino tinto) of the Spanish Rioja or Texas High Plains wine regions. For today’s celebration, however, we […]
Many of us who have covered the wine industry for decades assume (often incorrectly) that wine consumers are familiar with all the various wine terms, wine regions, sub-regions and methods of fermentation that are assigned […]