Touring Texas Wine Country
How to best explore the area between Johnson City and Fredericksburg.
How to best explore the area between Johnson City and Fredericksburg.
This month, we celebrate a red wine blend, the result of something you can get when you put a few different grapes together when there’s not enough to make a single-varietal wine. Sometimes wineries give these wines melodic, artistic names. In the case of Hye Meadow Winery, one of
While many Texans were up late watching the Blood Moons, grape growers in the High Plains and the Hill Country spent their nights tending vines and hoping for the best. Both regions experienced below-freezing temperatures Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights, and late spring freezes like these are the sort of
"I don't know if it was the vintage, the vine age or the winemaking confidence, but that was a particularly motivating flight."
A new marketing initiative led by some of the state's top wine producers has lofty ambitions of winning over an industry that has largely ignored Texas wines.
The Dallas Morning News/TEXSOM Wine Competition introduces some of the world's best sommeliers to Texas wines.
How Don Pullum of Sandstone Cellars is turning this sleepy little Hill Country town into a stronghold for Texas wines.
Six great Texas wines.
The state's wine industry bids farewell to one of its great ambassadors, Clinton “Doc” McPherson, who passed away early Saturday morning.
The Wine: Spicewood Vineyards “Estate” Tempranillo 2012, Texas Hill Country Who Likes It: Bill Elsey, advanced sommelier and general manager of the Red Room Lounge in Austin. Elsey got his start in the wine industry eight years ago while working in the Tasting Room at Duchman Family Winery. The
Texas fans of ABC’s The Taste, a cooking competition show, may have recognized a certain well-known Texas winemaker in the season’s first episode. Don Pullum of Mason, a small town west of Fredericksburg, wowed celebrity judges Anthony Bourdain, Nigella Lawson, Marcus Samuelsson, and Ludo Lefebvre with his savvy culinary skills
What does a flagship Texas winery do to celebrate its thirtieth anniversary? In the case of Fall Creek Vineyards, it changes things up a bit.
A list of the best Texas wines released this year, including the top ten reds and whites you should be tasting right now.
A crash course on how to enjoy the rich, fortified wine, including some options for "port-style" Texas wines.
Going once! Going twice! One of Texas' oldest wineries is up for auction on Wednesday, November 6. Let the bidding begin!
The common thread: drink wine.
Due to record-breaking late spring frosts, this year’s grape harvest will go down in history as one of the worst.
Our recommended selection of Texas Rosés, a crisp drink perfect for a hot summer day.
The six medal-winning wines that captured the interest of national wine enthusiasts.
OpenTable, an online restaurant reservation and review system, recently announced the honorees of the 2012 Top 100 Restaurants with the Most Notable Wine Lists in the United States. The list was determined by the combined opinions of more than 5 million reviews submitted by verified OpenTable diners for more than 15,000
Sip a little here, nosh a little there, and fall in love with Texas wineries.
Ginger Reeder on gift giving.
What’s red and white and growing all over (as a tourist attraction)? Texas wineries.
Some Texans are going crazy over wine. Others are just going crazy.
It's not easy these days to find a good wine selection at reasonable prices, but it can be done.