Visiting the Great Texas Wineries and Enjoying Wine
The next three months of #TXwine Twitter Tuesday are going to be golden! We will celebrate gold medal winners from the Dallas Morning News and the TEXSOM Wine Competition that was held in February. For each of the #TXwine May, June, and July Twitter Tuesdays, we will taste three gold medal wines. Since the March #TXwine Twitter Tuesday was so popular by allowing tweeters to order a special #TXwine Twitter Tuesday three-pack, we will do the same thing for all {Read More}
The 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition was judged in November, the results were announced, and I compiled a list of all the Texas winery medal winners. On February 17th, people got a chance to taste the major medal winners not just from Texas but from around the world at the 10th annual Rodeo Uncorked! Roundup and Best Bites Competition. As a reminder, the wine competition included 2,884 wines from 943 wineries in Texas, the United States, {Read More}
The 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition Results were announced and I posted a filtered list of the Texas wineries from the results. Now it’s time for a little analysis of the results for the Texas medal wines. First, it is a little confusing because this is the 2013 wine competition but it’s only 2012 right now. That’s because the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo doesn’t happen until 2013. Clear now? As we all heard, the top {Read More}
The wines have been judged and after a full weekend spent by 100 judges organized in 20 panels, from November 10-11, the results are in for the 2013 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition. They judged 2,884 wines from 943 wineries in Texas, the United States, and the world. 21 countries participated in the competition and 2,293 medals were awarded. Here are the top award-winning wines: Grand Champion: 2008 Alexander Valley Vineyards CYRUS, Alexander Valley Reserve Grand Champion: {Read More}
http://www.caprockwinery.com Cap*Rock Winery is located in Lubbock and is owned by Catherine Bodenstedt. Phillip Anderson is the General Manager and Michael Vorauer is the winemaker. Catherine Bodenstedt purchased the winery in August 2010 after multiple auctions. Instead of retelling the story of the auctions and other proceedings, please read the blog posts on VintageTexas starting at http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=2243. We arrived at Cap*Rock Winery when they opened and as soon as we drove to the entrance, we immediately had to stop the {Read More}
Last year’s TX Wine Lover Awards was a fun hit with consumers and wineries alike, so we had to do another set of awards for this year. Hence, the 2012 TX Wine Lover Awards. We hope you enjoy our list of award categories from last year in addition to some new categories for this year. Notes: These awards are just our opinion and as usual, everybody probably has a different opinion. There are MANY wineries which could have been chosen {Read More}
In the 29th Annual Lone Star International Wine Competition, there were 514 total entries from all over the world. The panel of judges awarded 11 Grand Star Awards, 36 Gold medals (15 Double Gold), 171 Silver medals, and 203 Bronze medals. Texas wineries had a total of 359 Texas wine entries. Those were awarded 7 Grand Star awards, 20 Gold medals (6 Double Gold), 114 Silver medals, and 144 Bronze medals. This is the list of medals for Texas wineries {Read More}
http://www.lostoakwinery.com Lost Oak Winery, formerly called Lone Oak Winery, is located in Burleson. Due to trademark issues for the past two years, the winery was renamed to Lost Oak Winery in March 2012. The United States Patent and Trademark Office has approved their application and they have about four more months to get the new name of “Lost Oak” on one of their wine labels. The winery is owned by Gene and Judy Estes and was opened at the end {Read More}
I can’t believe March 20th will be the first anniversary since the creation of this blog. I started the blog with some goals in mind and they haven’t changed since: Help consumers discover wineries they may not know about and they should visit Help wineries with marketing Help wine related events with marketing Gloria and I have at this moment visited 125 Texas wineries and have enjoyed every minute. We’re still learning to tell you what the aromas and tastes {Read More}
Rodeo Uncorked! Roundup and Best Bites Competition is a food and wine event held in Reliant Center for those who wish to try the award-winning wines from the International Wine Competition and taste signature dishes submitted for competition by area catering institutions and restaurants. After the entire list of International Wine Competition results were announced in November, 2011, the next day I compiled a list of the Texas wineries who had won, and from what I have been able to {Read More}
