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Winecast 13: Bruce Anderson, Sunset Winery
Bruce and Birgit Anderson of Sunset Winery are typical of the second wave of Texas winemakers, the group that came into the business over the last decade. For many in this group, running a winery was not their first career -- Bruce was a sociology pr...
Texas wine: What's right, what's wrong, and what still needs to be done
The quality of Texas wine is better than it has ever been. There are fewer flawed wines, the best wineries are more consistent from vintage to vintage, and there are more wineries that can be described as being among the......
Wine of the week: Red Caboose Tempranillo-Syrah 2007
During our DrinkLocalWine.com conference in August, I had dinner with Gil Kulers, the wine columnist for the Journal Constitution newspaper in Atlanta. We wanted to try something new from Texas, and we ended up with this. I'll be honest. I......
Winecast 12: Russ Kane, Vintage Texas
The Wine Curmudgeon kicks off DrinkLocalWine.com's Regional Wine Week with a podcast with Russ Kane, who is perhaps the premier blogger about Texas wine. We discuses what's new in Texas, why Texas wines have improved so much, and what still needs to ...
Grapefest winners
I had a comment last week: "Will you write about Grapefest?" My talk at 12:15 on Friday went quite nicely -- most of the seats were taken, the crowd paid attention, and there were good questions. But what you really......
DrinkLocalWine.com conference: Sip, spit, Tweet
The Wine Curmudgeon is a Chicago Cubs fan. Which means, to paraphrase the immortal Steve Goodman, that we expect the worst and aren’t surprised when worse than that happens. Or, as Goodman wrote: You know the law of averages says:......
Texas wine videos
A bunch of them, in fact, as the Wine Curmudgeon gets ready for the first DrinkLocalWine.com conference this weekend. I’m off to the airport later today to pick up some out-of-town wine writers. The videos, put together by the state’s......
Wine of the week: Llano Estacado Signature Melange 2007
One of the signs of a top-flight wine industry, whether in an established region or a new one, is that it has a large, commercial producer that makes quality, affordable wine. These wineries make the entry level wines that are......
American sangiovese: Better than ever
Sangiovese is the only Italian red wine grape most Americans know, and even then we don’t know it by its name. Instead, we know it as Chianti, which is the region where the best-known sangiovese is produced. (And those of......
Winecast 10: Texas wine trends
My pal John Bratcher and Alfonso Cevola, the Italian wine guy, joined me for a discussion about what’s new and interesting in Texas wine. (The podcast was originally recorded for Advocate magazines in Dallas, where I do the wine writing.)......
Lone Star International Competition results
There were some surprises when we finished the 26th annual judging on Tuesday, and pleasant ones at that. Several wineries that usually don’t get high medals did, and I was especially impressed with the efforts of wineries from places like......
Special International Lone Star Wine Competition award
The Wine Curmudgeon is judging the 26th International Lone Star Wine Competition in Grapevine, Texas, today and tomorrow, where a new category has been added -- the Texas Vintner's Rising Star Award, sponsored by Paul Bonarrigo, the long-time owner a...
Texas crop update
And it’s not good at all. Some of the state’s best vineyards are reporting significant losses, thanks to a series of late winter freezes and thaws that followed in rapid succession. Neal Newsom, whose Newsom Vineyards in west Texas supplies......
Red River Wine Festival
I saw the future of American wine two weekends ago. That’s when what must have been 1,000 people attended the fifth annual Red River Wine Festival in Wichita Falls, Texas. Wichita Falls, about 140 miles northwest of Dallas, is not......
