I attended the Houston Area Regional Competition of Chefs Under Fire at Rice University in Houston on September 25th. Russ Kane of VintageTexas.com won two tickets to the event but was unexpectedly called out of town, so he asked if I could attend in his place. Chefs Under Fire presented by Keeper Collection is aRead More
Tasting the Town and The Wine Walk
Tasting the Town presented by The Gold Exchange was held in the Humble Civic Center in Humble, TX on Thursday, September 22nd. The event brought the Lake Houston area’s local restaurateurs, chefs, caterers, musicians, wineries, breweries, and other vendors together to show off their wares. This was the third year of the event and everyRead More
Tasting the Town and The Wine Walk Preview
Tasting the Town presented by The Gold Exchange will be held in the Humble Civic Center in Humble, TX on Thursday, September 22nd. The event opens from 4-9pm for General Admission and a VIP After-Party until 10 pm will also include The Wine Walk sponsored by HEB. The event is Lake Houston Area’s premier annualRead More
Montgomery Wine and Music Festival
We attended the Montgomery Wine and Music Festival last year and had a great time tasting the Texas wine from the numerous wineries which were present. As a result of volunteering at this year’s Old Town Spring SpringFest, we decided to volunteer at Montgomery too. We received the information prior to the day, September 17,Read More
Fall Wine Festivals – Houston area and Where Else?
‘Tis the season. No, not for Winter and Christmas but time for most wine festivals to occur in Texas and time to drink some Texas wine. Not all wine festivals occur during the Fall season because earlier this year we volunteered at the Old Town Spring SpringFest. We arrived for the first shift on theRead More
TXwine Twitter Tuesday
The Texas Department of Agriculture (TDA) started doing Texas Twitter Tuesday on the first Tuesday of every month. A special winery guest would be invited and people could tweet during the 7:00-7:30 evening with that guest to discuss three Texas wines. Since the Texas wine marketing ended on August 31st, a community-led TXwine Twitter TuesdayRead More
Media & Technology Symposium day at TEXSOM
TEXSOM stands for the Texas Sommelier Conference which is in its seventh year and is being held at the Four Seasons Las Colinas in Dallas. It was founded by Drew Hendricks (@drewhendricksms) and James Tidwell (@winejames). It has always been a two day event with excellent wine education. This year a first day was addedRead More
Texas Winery Passport Rewards and Los Pinos Weekend
As we have mentioned before, the Texas Winery Passport program is definitely something you should be involved with if you are visiting Texas wineries. The rewards get better and better as you visit more wineries. Even though the Texas Winery Passport program will be changing in some way at the start of September, we stillRead More
Harvesting Grapes at Messina Hof for Texas Wine
Gloria and I wanted to volunteer to help harvest grapes for a winery this year since we have never done it. Many wineries harvest their own grapes to make their Texas wine, but either they do not know exactly when they will be harvesting until close to the time, or they have a festival associatedRead More
Texas Wine Release Party and Private Texas Wine Tasting
One of the best things about Texas wines besides visiting Texas wineries is drinking the wine and especially enjoying the Texas wine with other people. This post is about two events we attended this past weekend which hold true to that principle. Texas Wine Release Party You may have read about our recent experience inRead More
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