Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – September 1, 2012 The Best Wine and Wine Makers in Texas By Ben Carpenter, TexanPost The long history of Texas wine begins in the 1600s with Spanish […]
What Texas Wines to Pair with the Deep Fried Food Finalists at the 2012 State Fair of Texas? CultureMap Houston broke the “big story” today about the finalists in the 2012 State Fair of Texas […]
September 11th TXwine Twitter Tuesday: TEXSOM and Muy Grande Tasting Denise Clarke (@DeniseClarkeTX), Jeff Cope (@TXwineLover) and I (@VintageTexas) invite you to join the next TXwine Twitter Tuesday at 7 p.m. Central Time on Tuesday, […]
Texsom 2012: What a Tasting Opportunity… From Margaux to Mason County Texas The Sunday morning session began with a rush of servers, Sommeliers of all types with varying degrees of certification, pouring to over a […]
Texsom 2012 Kick Off: It’s Got It All People started arriving for Texsom (The Texas Sommelier Conference) in Dallas yesterday evening. The air was hot, dry and still. But, as the morning session started the […]
Narin’s Bombay Brasserie Wine Dinner: It’s Time to Set Aside Some of the Old Rules, Get Some New When asked how does Indo-Asian wine pairing compare to the meat-dominated western approaches (e.g. red meat, red […]
News Flash: TDA Update Regarding Texas Wine Promotion – It’s Back! Although the majority of funding for the State of Texas’ wine marketing was eliminated during the last legislative session, the Texas Department of Agriculture […]
Pedernales Cellars: Texas Wine Riding a Wave of Success On a damp hazy summer morning, I trekked out from our hill country cottage and was between Johnson City and Fredericksburg on a road that’s taken […]
Messina Hof Winery Harvesting: “More fun than I thought it would be!” I was recently part of a limo-driven labor force on route from Houston to Bryan, Texas, to participate in this year’s harvesting of […]
What’s on Your Wine Labels: From Appellation to “For Sale in Texas Only” I get more emails about wine labeling than just about any topic. The questions can vary from….”What is the minimum amount of […]