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Chefs Under Fire – Houston Area Regional Competition

September 25, 2011 by Jeff Cope Leave a Comment

Chefs Under Fire - competitors

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Chefs, Foods, TEXSOM

Tasting the Town and The Wine Walk

September 23, 2011 by Jeff Cope 1 Comment

Tasting the Town - 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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Festival, Texas Wine

Tasting the Town and The Wine Walk Preview

September 20, 2011 by Jeff Cope 1 Comment

Tasting the Town

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Festival, Texas Wine

Montgomery Wine and Music Festival

September 18, 2011 by Jeff Cope Leave a Comment

Montgomery Festival - Billy Cox Jr.

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Festival, marketing, store, Texas Wine

Fall Wine Festivals – Houston area and Where Else?

September 11, 2011 by Jeff Cope 11 Comments

Old Town Spring SpringFest 2011

‘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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Festival, Texas Wine

TXwine Twitter Tuesday

September 3, 2011 by Jeff Cope Leave a Comment

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Don Pullum, marketing, Texas Wine

Media & Technology Symposium day at TEXSOM

August 14, 2011 by Jeff Cope 5 Comments

Jeremy Parzen and Alfonso Cevola

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: blogging, conference, TEXSOM

Texas Winery Passport Rewards and Los Pinos Weekend

August 8, 2011 by Jeff Cope 4 Comments

Zip lining in Canton

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Bed and Breakfast, bottling, East Texas, harvest, Passport code, Piney Woods Wine Trail, Restaurant, Texas Wine, Texas Wineries, Texas Winery Passport, Tour, Vineyard

Harvesting Grapes at Messina Hof for Texas Wine

July 25, 2011 by Jeff Cope 4 Comments

Harvest - Paul leading workers

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: bottling, fruit, harvest, Messina Hof Winery & Resort, Texas Wineries, Vineyard

Texas Wine Release Party and Private Texas Wine Tasting

July 10, 2011 by Jeff Cope Leave a Comment

Caldwell Family Winery party - pouring

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

Filed Under: Events Tagged With: Bed and Breakfast, bottling, Eaglefire Winery & Vineyards, Fredericksburg, honey, mead, Messina Hof Winery & Resort, party, Restaurant, Texas Wine, Texas Wineries, Tour, Vineyard

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