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Taste Texas Guest Blogger Profile: Josh Wade of Drink Nectar

Date: Sat, May 8, 2010 Wine Tasting

If the wine blogging world were a high school, I would expect to see Josh Wade's picture in the Most Likely to Succeed category of the yearbook. Josh and I started blogging around the same time, and it has been a lot of fun to see what he has done in such a short period of time. He has quickly accumulated a substantial following on his blog, has become a fixture in the Washington wine scene, and is nothing short of a Twitter rockstar. Josh will be one of the national guest bloggers that will be participating in the Taste...

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Taste Texas Guest Blogger Profile: Josh Wade of Drink Nectar

Date: Sat, May 8, 2010 Wine Tasting

If the wine blogging world were a high school, I would expect to see Josh Wade's picture in the Most Likely to Succeed category of the yearbook. Josh and I started blogging around the same time, and it has been a lot of fun to see what he has done in such a short period of time. He has quickly accumulated a substantial following on his blog, has become a fixture in the Washington wine scene, and is nothing short of a Twitter rockstar. Josh will be one of the national guest bloggers that will be participating in the Taste...

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May 7 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, May 7, 2010 Wine Tasting

So, after taking a week of hiatus from this series, I'm all Gene Autry, back in the saddle again. Here goes... The GoodJoe Herrig from Suburban Wino had two great posts this week that featured some great movie and wine pairings. I think a lot of us wine bloggers have thought about what wines we would pair with our favorite television shows, songs, movies, and pretty much every thing else because..., well, because we are weird. This post is pretty much the perfect intersection of two of my obsessions. The Bad There was a totally crazy story this week about...

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Taste Texas Guest Blogger Profile: Joe Herrig of Suburban Wino

Date: Thu, May 6, 2010 Wine Tasting

We are just a week away from the first Taste Texas Twitter event with Mandola Estate Winery, and I thought that it would be a good idea to profile a few of the bloggers who will be participating in the event with me. Joe Herrig is the one and only wily unbranded calf of wine blogging, launching his assault on eonological boredom from his roost at www.suburbanwino.com. Joe's writing is some of the most entertaining that you will find on any wine blog, mixing top notch wine knowledge with a dash of humor and pop-culture savvy. I asked Joe a...

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Hip Hop, Wine, and the Wild Wild West

Date: Wed, May 5, 2010 Wine Tasting

I've mentioned before, and it comes as no surprise to anyone, that the Texas wine biz is just a little bit different from what you would see in a lot of other places. Last night I got another taste of one of those differences. La Diosa Wine Cellars is the local haunt for winos here in my hometown of Lubbock, Texas. In addition to featuring some Texas wines, La Diosa is also one of Lubbock's great music venues. The music selection that you will find here from night to night is, well, eclectic. Last night I went to see a...

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Hitting the Texas Wine Trail

Date: Mon, May 3, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Texas Department of Agriculture has recently announced a series of videos featuring eight different wine trails around the state of Texas. The first video was released last week, with a new video debuting every Tuesday. The first trail to be featured is the Bluebonnet Wine Trail, which is in South-East Texas. The trail runs from Brennan to Montgomery. There are seven wineries on the Bluebonnet trail, including Messina Hof, one of the biggest wineries in the state. The owner and winemaker at Messina Hof, Paul Bonarrigo, is featured quite a bit on this video. Paul is one of the...

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What the Hell Does "For Sale in Texas Only" Mean Anyway?

Date: Thu, Apr 29, 2010 Wine Tasting

Okay, you all know that I like to bring it for Texas wine. I love my Texas wine, and I love getting to know all of the great people at Texas wineries. One thing I don't love is confusing labeling on wines produced in the state of Texas. I don't love the fact that it is all too common for a friend to tell me that they bought a "Texas" wine over the weekend, then when they name the wine I am forced to tell them that the wine wasn't actually made from Texas fruit. In order for a winery...

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Better Than Kissing Your Sister - 2008 Sister Creek Muscat Canelli

Date: Tue, Apr 27, 2010 Wine Tasting

There are a lot of things about Texas that make it different from the other wine producing regions of the United States. There are the obvious differences, such as our climate, and then there are the things that you have to look a little harder to find, like a winery that resides within an old cotton gin. Sister Creek has been making wine in Texas for 22 years in the bustling metropolis of Sisterdale (population 25), which is located in the Texas Hill Country. Most of the wines that Sister Creek produces are the old French standards, but they also...

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April 23 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly - HR 5034 Edition

Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Good This week The Good is brought on by a response to something that is definitely The Bad. This post will probably be largely representative of a single issue today, but from different angles. The issue is HR 5034, the bill that is designed to undermine consumer choice in wine shipping, and to destroy the public's access to normal processes of challenging bad public policies in this arena. So, you are probably asking yourself what could possibly be good about this? The silver lining in this black cloud has been the grassroots response that has been generated in this...

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Of Texas, BBQ, and Beer - Sograte BBQ

Date: Fri, Apr 23, 2010 Wine Tasting

If there is one thing that us Texans like, it's our beef. If there are two think that we like, it's beer and beef. Given that fact, it seems like Cary Franklin has found the perfect pairing. Cary is the owner of Sograte BBQ and Brew, a local business that specializes in BBQ and Home Brewing supplies, as well as making some damn fine beef jerky. I recently had the opportunity to meet up with Cary and see his new place, as well as taste some of his incredible BBQ. BBQ is almost a religion in Texas and Cary built...

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Stop HR5034 - Keep Wine Shipping Alive

Date: Wed, Apr 21, 2010 Wine Tasting

There have been so many good posts written on this subject over the last week, that it may seem like overkill writing another, but I think that this is one of the most important pieces of news that has hit the wine scene since I started blogging, and I want to make sure that I do my part to pass on the news. I would like to recommend a couple (or three) of posts on the topic that will give you a great overview of what is going on with this bill. The first is from a man who knows...

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A Taste of Texas, Twitter-Style

Date: Tue, Apr 20, 2010 Wine Tasting

I've been lucky enough to have been able to participate in some really great wine events on Twitter recently, including the recent Tweet and Taste Michigan event that was hosted by Shannon Casey from Michigan by the Bottle. The really great thing about that event was that the folks from the winery were very involved in the whole process, and I felt like I really had the opportunity to get to know the winery involved, and also gain some insight into Michigan wine. Recently I have been inspired to put together some similar events to show off Texas wine to...

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Major Wino Fantasy Baseball Update

Date: Mon, Apr 19, 2010 Wine Tasting

Well, thus far the season has not gone well for my Oeno Slaughterers. Nestled among the bottom quarter of the league for most of the season, I've finally started a bit of a rally. In hindsight, my team could have done without any Astros representation, with Hunter Pence and Carlos Lee both batting well beneath the Mendoza Line. I finally threw in the towel and made Carlos Lee someone else's problem by trading him away. I also cut ties with Carlos Zambrano (beware of players named Carlos in 2010), and unfortunately my good friend Josh from Wine(Explored) has inherited that...

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April 16 - The Good the Bad and the Ugly

Date: Fri, Apr 16, 2010 Wine Tasting

The Good Every week I find more material than I need for "The Good" portion of this post, and this week was no exception. I want to call out a couple of items this week. First, my friend Steve Paulo from Notes From the Cellar posted a list of wine-themed movie quotes. From my communication with him online, I picture Steve as being a movie quote guru, able to rattle off the perfect line from a movie (or song for that matter), for absolutely any situation. I also wanted to congratulate Steve on completing his first 6 months of wine...

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