On my recent video interview with Llano Estacado Winery, I promised a review of a few of their wines was coming soon.  So, maybe the "soon" part was a bit of an exaggeration, but I am finally getting around to getting some reviews posted.  I originally thought about letting this one wait until a Mourvedre Monday, in honor of the [...]

 It was only eleven o'clock, and we couldn't bring ourselves to end the night so soon.  We had managed to hook up with a legendary musician, albeit a legend of a very specific niche.  Billy was a banjo player who had played with the likes of Woody Guthrie, and Pete Seger.  He had run around in the same Greenwich Village [...]

 When you go down the list of the premier wine regions in the world, or even in France, the Coteaux du Languedoc isn't generally among the first that comes to mind.  The same could be said when it comes to the Picpoul Blanc variety.  A lot of people probably haven't had the opportunity to try a wine made from this [...]

The Good Once again there was too much good this week to limit myself to just one thing.  The week started off with a bang, and faded into outrageous hilarity. There was an awesome Twitter tasting event featuring Michigan winery Black Star Farms (on Twitter at @bstar2009) that was organized by Shannon Casey from Michigan by the Bottle.  There were [...]

This review is another wine produced in Texas that is not truly a "Texas" wine, which is to say that it isn't made from the 75% Texas fruit that is required to be classified as a Texas Appellation wine.  Messina Hof is one of the largest producers of wine in Texas, and they have a mix of "Texas" wines and [...]

Ahh, Spring.  The birds singing, the grass turning green, and of course there's Spring Training.  Just the thought of baseball returning makes me feel all warm inside.  This year, I'm looking forward to playing some fantasy baseball with some fellow winos in the 1st Annual Major Wino Baseball League.  We ended up with 13 teams participating in the league, from [...]

There is a great guest post on the VintageTexas website written by Dan Gatlin of Inwood Estates Winery.  Mr. Gatlin has been in the Texas wine industry for 30 years, and has been involved in the wine business even longer.  He offers a unique perspective into grape and wine production in the state.  Gatlin points out the great potential that [...]

Okay, so my timing for this post is a little weird, given that I was just talking about Twitter Tasting Fatigue in the wake of the #SauvBlanc event.  I really did have a fun time at the event, and met some really interesting people around the world, from locations ranging from here in the US to Germany to New Zealand.  [...]

 Last Thursday I participated in the Twitter #SauvBlanc tasting event.  The event was a lot of fun, with hundreds of people tweeting thousands of times about the Sauvignon Blanc wines that they were drinking that night.  This event had followed up the #CaliCabs event that Rick Bakas from St. Supery Winery had put together a month beforehand, and leads into [...]

There's a really interesting post up on Dr. Vino's blog right now about wine shipping laws in Maryland.  I'm always interested in this topic, so I enjoy reading about how my fellow Three Tier Refuges are doing around the country.  Sounds like Maryland's opportunity to escape from the clutches of the evil anti-consumer mafia is coming up soon, so let's [...]