July 2, 2012 By Jeff Cope
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
June 29, 2012 By Jeff Cope
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
June 25, 2012 By Jeff Cope
Dusty Timmons, former viticulture advisor for the past two years for the West Texas region including the High Plains, had offered to give us a tour of the High Plain vineyards whenever we went to the Lubbock area. Since he had to travel to the various vineyards and help with any problems they may
June 24, 2012 By Jeff Cope
William Chris Vineyards had a special event on June 23rd, the first Summer Saturday night, called the Watermelon Thump & Chef Throwdown. Four regional chefs competed for the title of Chef Thump King in the first annual event. Upon arrival we met other wine writers and personalities. Some we had met before and it
June 24, 2012 By Jeff Cope
http://www.perissosvineyards.com Update: The free vineyard tours was a limited time offer at Perissos Vineyard and Winery. Want to see a great estate vineyard for free? Then you simply need to head to Perissos Vineyards and Winery between now and harvest (around August 15th). They are giving free vineyard tours which last 20-40 minutes and
June 19, 2012 By Jeff Cope
Bar Z Winery is owned by Monty Dixon and is located in Canyon, TX. The winery makes only 100% Texas wine.
June 16, 2012 By Jeff Cope
Texas Custom Wine Works will provide custom crushing and Texas wine winemaking in their soon to be built production facility.
June 15, 2012 By Jeff Cope
This day we were flying back to Houston. Since we needed to taste Nolan Newsom’s cooking, the day started early with Neal and Nolan arriving at the bed and breakfast to prepare for breakfast. Indeed Nolan’s breakfast was very good as we all enjoyed scrambled eggs, bacon, and biscuits and gravy. It was time
June 12, 2012 By Jeff Cope
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
June 12, 2012 By Jeff Cope
We visited the High Plains of Texas for the first time. This is what happened during day three of our trip where we visited the wineries.
June 11, 2012 By Jeff Cope
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
June 10, 2012 By Jeff Cope
We finally got vacation days approved and our first trip to the High Plains and Lubbock area began. We had the choice of driving nine hours or flying for one hour and in the interest of time, we chose the latter. We enjoyed the United Club room at the Houston airport while waiting for
