When You Have Texas Roussanne, Who Needs Chardonnay Roussanne is a variety of Vitis Vinifera with yellow-green colored berries, which gain a rosey hue under sunny conditions, that originated from France. It has several common […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – July 8, 2010 The Best Place to Drink Texas Wine From Gray Market Report (7/1/2010) Recently I visited Texas wine country, about which I wrote this column […]
Educational and Membership Opportunities from The Food and Wine Foundation of Texas There is a great wine educational opportunity coming up on July 15th. The class will pour ten wines and it should be an […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Frizzante An Italian term meaning slightly carbonated or sparkling. It is the same as what in French is known as “pétillant”. Many wines (white, rosé and red) are bottled frizzante […]
French Country Wines: An Unexpected Joy That I “Could-Tannat” Pass Up There is a gem of a place hidden on a back street near Rice Village in Houston, Texas. Believe it or not, there is […]
VintageTexas Sunday ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Madeira The Portuguese island 400 miles into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of northern Africa. Wines have been produced on this island since around the fifteenth century. However, this […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – June 22, 2010 Plano’s Patrick Davies Produces Award-Winning Wines Raise a glass to Plano homeboy, Patrick Davies the young turk winemaker for Eagle Castle Winery in Paso […]
Guest Blog: So You Want to Start a Winery in Texas The following exchange appeared on the Yahoo Texas Winegrowers Mailing List at: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Texas_Winegrowers. I have asked permission from Caris and Jim to post their […]
Cowboys, Cabernet and More at the Bush Presidential Library I drove up from Houston to College Station, Texas, as a hazy, yellow sunset burned ahead in the sky, masked only by a few wisps of […]
Texas Wine Pairing: Pool Plunges and Satisfying Sips From Sacrebleuwine.com: Let’s begin the search for the perfect pool wines with the obvious. This pool is in Japan and the pictures taken back in 2007 but […]