Visiting the Great Texas Wineries and Enjoying Wine
The July 2013 #TXwine Twitter Tuesday concludes our celebration of gold medal winners from the Dallas Morning News and the TEXSOM Wine Competition that was held in February. As in the previous two months for the #TXwine July Twitter Tuesdays, we will taste three gold medal wines. Tweeters can order a special #TXwine Twitter Tuesday three-pack of the wines which will be discussed for July. There is still time to order and ship in time for the July chat. Messina [Read More...]
The June 2013 #TXwine Twitter Tuesday continues our celebration of gold medal winners from the Dallas Morning News and the TEXSOM Wine Competition that was held in February. As in May, for the #TXwine June and July Twitter Tuesdays, we will taste three gold medal wines. Tweeters can order a special #TXwine Twitter Tuesday three-pack of the wines which will be discussed for June and July. There is still time to order and ship in time for the June chat. Messina [Read More...]
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...]
Spring is in the air! Or at least it is supposed to be with the exception of some recent frosts in Texas. But for the April #TXwine Twitter Tuesday on April 9 from 7-8 p.m. CST, we will celebrate spring wines. We have selected three wines that are light and refreshing, perfect for sipping on the porch or pairing with your favorite cheeses and springtime favorites: McPherson Cellars Roussanne (@McPhersonCellar) Duchman Family Winery Dolcetto (@DuchmanWinery) Becker Vineyards Claret (@BeckerVineyards) The [Read More...]
The 2013 Sugar Land Wine & Food Affair will be held from April 24 – 28. This year marks the 10th year of the festival and is expected to attract more than 7,000 attendees over the five day event. Proceeds support a permanent scholarship endowment at the University of Houston Conrad N. Hilton College of Hotel and Restaurant Management. To date the event has raised more than $250,000 for scholarships awarded to students pursuing careers in the hospitality field. There [Read More...]
Texas wine friends – we are trying something new for the March #TXWine Twitter Tuesday on March 12 from 7-8 p.m. CST. The March issue of Imbibe magazine is devoted to Texas wine, food and spirits and our own Jessica Dupuy (@JDewps) has written an article about Texas wine. This is great exposure for the Texas wine industry in a national magazine! To celebrate, we have asked Jessica to lead the March Twitter Tasting and we are featuring three of [Read More...]
Austin’s Denise Clarke (@DeniseClarkeTX), Houston’s Russ Kane (@VintageTexas), and I (@TXWineLover) invite you to join the next TXwine Twitter Tuesday at 7 p.m. CST on January 8th. This month we will celebrate Texas wine bars and wine shops that serve Texas wine. It is more fun to tweet with a group of other wine lovers and this is the opportune time to do so! These are the wine bars and shops that are currently ready to welcome Tweeters on January [Read More...]
http://www.llanoestacadowine.com Llano Estacado Winery is located in Lubbock. Mark Hyman is the President and CEO and Greg Bruni is the Vice President Production and Executive Winemaker. Llano Estacado was originally established in 1976 by Dr. Clinton McPherson and Robert Reed, along with Dr. Roy Mitchell of Texas Tech and other investors. Dr. Clinton McPherson or otherwise known as “Doc” is the father of Kim McPherson, owner of McPherson Cellars. We have had the pleasure of meeting Bill Freidhof, Vice President Sales [Read More...]
This subject was actually asked of me last year. I got thinking more about it with last week’s fantastic Watermelon Thump & Chef Throwdown event at William-Chris Vineyards where media including bloggers and writers were invited. Now that I am being invited to some media events or attending conferences which bloggers and writers can attend, it made me sit back and think. For example, I went to the DrinkLocalWine Conference in Colorado where bloggers attended from around the country. I [Read More...]
Our second day arrived and we enjoyed delicious blueberry muffins which Janice Newsom had made. This day we would be mostly visiting vineyards. Earlier in the year when I was creating the blog post about wineries and vineyards on Twitter, I came across Dusty Timmons on Twitter and knew he had a vineyard, but wasn’t sure if he shared his brother Andy Timmons’ Lost Draw Vineyards or had his own. I emailed Dusty to get the information. Dusty replied his [Read More...]
