May 2013 #TXwine Twitter Tuesday

April 26, 2013 by Leave a Comment

#TXwine Twitter Tuesday - Gold Medals 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 three months.

Texas wine three-packs for May, June, and July will be available to order and ship in time for the May chat. Messina Hof has graciously volunteered to be the central point for you to order the wine. You can order one three-pack each month, but since the weather in Texas will soon start to get hot, we highly recommend you consider ordering all three months of wines in advance to avoid any heat problems in shipping. (Just don’t be tempted to drink the later months’ wines!)

Join us for the May #TXwine Twitter Tuesday on May 14 from 7-8 p.m. Jeff Cope (@TXWineLover) will host the event along with guest host Karen Bonarrigo (@KBonarrigo) from Messina Hof. Here is the May wine lineup:

The wines for June are:

July’s wines are:

To order your special Texas wine three-packs, please go to www.messinahof.com, select either location, and then click on Shop Online. Select the item Wine and then look for the special TXwine Twitter Tuesday three-pack for May, June, and July. Even easier, just click here to go directly to that page.

By having the Texas wine three-packs available to ship to you directly, we are excited more people can get involved to taste and tweet during the #TXwine Twitter Tuesdays. We hope you take advantage of this special opportunity to taste some gold medal wines.

We look forward to seeing you on Tuesday, May 14 from 7-8 p.m. CST for a night of tasting and tweeting. Please remember to include #TXwine in your tweets so everyone participating in the chat can see your tweets!

Cheers!

Denise, Jeff, and Jessica

@deniseclarkeTX, @TXWineLover, @JDewps

Additional Details: NOTE: If you’re new to Twitter, here’s how you participate:  just sign up for a free Twitter account at www.twitter.com. You can also go to the TweetChat room set up for #TXwine (http://tweetchat.com/room/TXwine). No registration is required; you can login using your Twitter account info. In the TweetChat room, participants are invited to follow tweets, add comments or tasting notes and share thoughts as participants taste and discuss the wines.

On TweetChat the hashtag #TXwine will be added automatically. If you are using TweetDeck or another Twitter application, you will need to add #TXwine to your tweets.

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Texas Wine Lover’s New Year’s Resolutions

January 1, 2013 by 3 Comments

2013

Everybody makes New Year’s Resolutions so I thought I would come up with mine, the Texas Wine Lover’s New Year’s Resolutions for 2013.

  1. Undoubtedly the most common resolution is to lose weight so I’ll make that my first resolution. I need to lose a little weight and get back in shape. It’s funny I mentioned starting to exercise and diet a couple months ago on Facebook and said that I needed to cut out either wine or food. The unanimous comment was cut out food! I agree, especially with this blog, so I will cut out some food and I’ll make it happen.
  2. Go to 30+ wineries so we hit the 200 mark of wineries visited. One of the largest concentration of wineries in the state we haven’t visited yet is northwest of Fort Worth so we need to ensure we visit those.
  3. Revisit our favorite wineries throughout the state.
  4. Learn more about wine by taking wine classes and entertain the thought of taking the Certified Specialist of Wine (CSW) exam. I have wine friends who have taken the CSW and they used study partners so I may need to talk someone into doing it together with me.
  5. Part of the wine education is attending TWGGA (Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association) events, TEXSOM (Texas Sommelier Conference), and Drink Local Wine conference.
  6. Visit the Mendoza wine region in Argentina. This will give a better understanding of wines in general.
  7. Continue to help Texas wineries at wine festivals.
  8. We have helped wineries bottle wine and harvest, but we have not had the opportunity at the start of the growing process which is either planting vines or pruning, so try to do that.
  9. Redesign the blog website and try to improve interaction on the blog. The Texas Wine Lover’s Facebook page helps other wine lovers interact with each other but not everyone is on Facebook.
  10. Increase blog readership.
  11. And the last but certainly one of the most important resolutions is to continue the support of the Texas Wine industry.

 

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Texas Wine at 2012 TEXSOM

August 17, 2012 by 2 Comments

Texas wine was presented at the 2012 TEXSOM (Texas Sommelier Conference) and the reaction from those in attendance seemed very positive. As mentioned in my previous post on Day 2 of the TEXSOM conference, we first had a tasting break which included Pedernales Cellars offering tastings of their 2010 Viognier and 2010 “GSM”.

The next seminar was called Texas Terroir and was presented by Guy Stout MS (Master Sommelier) and Christy Canterbury MW (Master of Wine). They gave a great and entertaining presentation about Texas wine and the areas in the state where Texas wine is made.

TEXSOM 2012 - Texas Terroir

Guy Stout and Christy Canterbury

We then got the chance to taste eight wines from Texas which provided a great sampling of Texas wines:

  • Duchman Family Winery – 2010 Duchman Vermentino
  • McPherson Cellars – 2010 McPherson Reserve Roussanne
  • Cap*Rock Winery – 2010 Cap*Rock Viognier
  • Sandstone Cellars – 2009 Sandstone Cellars “VII”
  • Pedernales Cellars – 2009 Pedernales Cellars “Kuhlken Vineyards Reserve”
  • Fairhaven Vineyards – 2010 Fairhaven Vineyards Chambourcin
  • The Vineyard at Florence – 2010 The Vineyard at Florence “Veritas” Cabernet Sauvignon
  • Haak Vineyards and Winery – 2010 Haak Winery “Madeira” Blanc du Bois

The last evening’s Grand Tasting event presented even more Texas wines from some of the same wineries plus even more. Wineries in attendance with their wines to be tasted were the following along with the winery’s representatives:

Cap*Rock Winery – Phillip Anderson (General Manager) and Michael Taub (Dallas/Fort Worth area manager)

  • 2010 Cap*Rock Roussanne
  • 2010 Cap*Rock Tempranillo
  • 2010 Cap*Rock Viognier
  • 2011 Cap*Rock “Toscana Rosso”
  • 2011 Cap*Rock “Knucklebump”
TEXSOM 2012 - Cap*Rock

Michael Taub and Phillip Anderson
Courtesy of VintageTexas

Duchman Family Winery – Matthew Champion (Director of Distribution)

  • 2010 Duchman Aglianico
  • 2010 Duchman Montepulciano
  • 2010 Duchman Vermentino
  • 2010 Duchman Trebbiano
TEXSOM 2012 - Duchman

Matthew Champion and wife Samantha
Courtesy of VintageTexas

Inwood Estates – Spencer Gatlin (Sales & Marketing Manager)

  • 2008 Inwood Estates “Magellan” Bordeaux Blend Pauillac-Style
  • 2009 Inwood Estates “Magdalena” Bordeaux Blend Margaux-Style
  • 2010 Vineyard at Florence “Roma” Norton
  • 2011 Vineyard at Florence “Aurelia” Blanc du Bois
TEXSOM 2012 - Vineyard at Florence

Vineyard at Florence Aurelia
Courtesy of VintageTexas

Pedernales Cellars – Fredrik Osterberg (President) and Julie Kuhlken (Design Director)

  • 2009 Pedernales Cellars Tempranillo
  • 2010 Pedernales Cellars “GSM”
  • 2010 Pedernales Cellars Muscat Canelli
  • 2011 Pedernales Cellars Viognier
TEXSOM 2012 - Fredrik Osterberg

Fredrik Osterberg
Courtesy of What Are You Drinking?

Sandstone Cellars – Don Pullum (winemaker at Sandstone Cellars) and Carl Money (owner of Pontotoc Vineyard)

  • NV Sandstone Cellars XII Port
  • 2010 Sandstone Cellars XI (Syrah, Mourvèdre, Touriga, Viognier)
  • 2011 Junction Rivers Petite Sirah
  • 2011 Pontotoc Vineyard Tempranillo
TEXSOM 2012 - Carl and Don

Carl Money and Don Pullum

It was a great time at TEXSOM and I think Texas wines made a great showing to those there. At least for the ones in attendance, they will never need to say, “What? Texas makes wine?”

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