I recently decided that I would like to start dabbling in some video segments for the blog. I'm certainly not interested in trying to be Gary Vaynerchuck or anything, but I thought it would be fun to go out and talk with some people in the West Texas wine community. This blog has really been an opportunity for me to [...]
My friends over at Pheasant Ridge Winery shared this hilarious poster with me while I was out at the winery on Friday. This is a pretty good indication of the level of sophistication shown by many Texas wine drinkers. Remember, it's said "pea no – now har".
There are just some grapes that have a story. Carménère is one of those grapes. Originally one of the six Bordeaux varieties, Carménère was once thought to be extinct, only to be rediscovered in Chile. The grapes were imported from France into Chile, and were often confused with Merlot. Most of the Carménère in France was wiped out during the [...]
The Good One of the most fun things that I have seen online this week has been the Cheap Wine Challenge that was put together on Twitter by @raelinn_wine. The rules were posted on her Wine Ophelia blog. Everyone was supposed to tweet a link to their review for a sub $10 wine, with the hashtag #cheapwinechallenge. All of the [...]
I'm a big fan of people and organizations who are quick to respond to horrible situations, and who reach out to meet the needs of people affected by those situations. It seems like every disaster that hits somewhere in the world, we get to see people respond in ways that can really restore your faith in mankind. The situation in [...]
As a follow up to my post on the 2008 Cap-Rock Viognier that was produced from 100% Organic grapes, my fellow blogger @StevePaulo made a really good point on Twitter. His comment was – "Does it matter? 'Made from Organic Grapes' means the rest of the process isn't organic. What's the advantage, in general?" I think that is does matter, [...]
I've been working on a couple of big projects on the website, so things have been posting a little slower than normal. I decided that I should take a break from some of my more ambitious endeavors to get out a review of the 2008 Cap-Rock Viognier that I drank this week. There is a lot of fun stuff to [...]
I keep seeing all of these wine trip contests going around Twitter and Facebook. In the last week I have seen contests for prizes in Italy, Austria, and Argentina. I also saw that fellow wine blogger @Sonadora left for Portugal this week, and @Makerstable had a great post on Palate Press about her honeymoon in the Rhone (Part 1 & Part [...]
My wife and I have been on a mission this year to eat better. I don't mean the usual New Year's resolution of eating healthier, we just want to eat better food. That means that we have stepped up the efforts to make out own food. The year is young, but so far we have been doing pretty well. Tonight [...]
I have decided that I want to try out something new this week. I want to have a new weekly feature for Fridays. Every Friday I will try to find something from the previous week that was good, something that was bad, and something that was, well I’m sure you can figure it out. So here we go – The [...]
