I love local businesses.  I would always prefer to go to Daybreak Coffee Roasters, a locally owned coffee shop, than to Starbucks, or to the Home Cafe instead of Chile's.  I like to support local entrepreneurs who are personally invested in their community, and who add a unique element to the community.  So, even though I live in West Texas, [...]

I had planned on participating in the Twitter California Cabs (#CaliCabs) tasting, I really had.  Unfortunately, there are some things that are more important than wine (shocking, I know).  I had an opportunity to work with a ministry here in Lubbock that is offering a warm place for local homeless during the cold winter months, and I jumped on the [...]

I just wanted to say thanks to everyone who read and commented on posts this week.  This week was one of the most fun weeks that I've had since I started writing this blog.  I got to start the week with a really fun interview with Laura Gray from Il Palazzone in Montalcino and ended it with a Pinotage Party [...]

 As soon as I started seeing the word flying around that my fellow old school punk rocker and wine blogger Dezel from My Vine Spot was organizing a Pinotage Party on Twitter, I was in for sure.  Little did I realize that Pinotage was going to be a tough commodity to track down at the liquor stores here in West [...]

The Good The Good this week is a couple of fun tasting events that came up this week. The first is by far the biggest Twitter tasting event that has taken place since I’ve been blogging.  The #CaliCabs event was open to everyone, and featured tweeters from around the country tasting their favorite California Cabernet(s) and then tweeting about them.  [...]

  My friend ChrisO from VinTuba was recently kind enough to ask me to write a guest post for his blog, and I was only too happy to do it.  I did my best to provide a nice overview of wine here in my home state of Texas.  Hopefully y'all (yep, I did that on purpose) enjoy reading it as [...]

I have some very conflicted opinions on Steve Heimoff's most recent outburst of social media loathing.  On the one hand, I actually agree with him that our reliance on tools like Twitter, Facebook, and the like have damaged real world communications.  I have been to dinners where people who were actually in the SAME ROOM spent the entire evening texting [...]

A friend of mine recently told me that he saw my wine enthusiasm in recent years as a natural next step to my punk rock days of yesteryear.  I have to admit, I never would have found a connection between this – and this – Still, maybe he was onto something.  After thinking about my old punk rock ethos and [...]

Prior to Texas rejoining the "Sucky Wine Shipping State Club", I placed an order from Cinderella Wine for the 2007 Casa Marin Vineyard Riesling.  I'm holding out hope that I will eventually be able to order wine from out of state retailers in the future, but it looks like this will be my last CW order for a while.  I'm [...]

Those of you who have been reading my blog recently are already aware of the fact that I have some interest in the question of organic wine and wine made by producers who are interested in sustainability.  There has been some great discussion in some of the past posts on the subject, and I was especially interested in some comments [...]