Gary P. Nunn and Jerry Jeff Walker still want to go home with the Armadillo, and it is hotter than blazes in Texas and America at large in August. Dallas journalist Jeff Siegel features an Italian white -Arancio Grillo 2009 as his Wine of the Week on his popular Wine Curmudgeon blog. Jeff has been [...]
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What is the single largest challenge to grape growing in the Texas Hill Country?
I was recently asked that question by a local restaurant director who is writing an article on Texas wine and grape growing.
It is hard to identify any one single greatest challenge, it’s a string of events that culminate with what you hope [...]
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Campodelsole, which means “field of sun”, sits on a hill with the mountains behind it and the sea in front of it. If anyone could make a more beautiful spot for vines or humans, they’d have to work hard to match Campodelsole. If fact, this area has been farmed and inhabited since before the Roman [...]
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Tim Atkin has just released his 2009 Bordeaux Special Report and for wine lovers, colectors and investors in the trade this is a must read.
His opening spells it right out:
The 2009 vintage in Bordeaux is already the most talked about harvest of the last 30 years, surpassing 1982, 1990, 2000 and 2005 in terms of [...]
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The Stout Report
By Guy Stout, CWE, MS
“I Traveled to Las Vegas to participate in the Golden Nugget Wine and Jazz Weekend…”
This is the second year they have asked me to conduct tasting seminars during the festival. It starts with a poolside reception next to the Shark Tank on Friday evening. A variety of wines are [...]
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As you all know by now, I went off and married my DoBianchi. We have so many things in common, but one of these is our passion for Italian wine. Luckily, Jeremy has a friend/collaborator named Franco Ziliani who not only shares this passion, but writes about it famously.
So strong is the wine geek factor [...]
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2010 U.S. Professional Wine Buyers Competition
Gold 2007 Piesporter Michelsberg Spatlese Special Collection
Gold 2006 Piesporter Goldtropchen Auslese Special Collection
Gold 2007 Riesling QBA Blue Bottle
2010 Dallas Morning News Wine Competition
Silver 2007 Riesling QBA Blue Bottle
Bronze 2007 Piesporter Michelsberg Spatlese Special Collection
Bronze 2007 Piesporter Goldtropchen Spatlese Special Collection
Gold 2006 Piesporter Goldtropchen Auslese Special Collection
Bronze 2006 Piesporter Michelsberg Auslese Special Collection
2009 Dallas Morning News Wine Competition
Bronze 2007 Piesporter Michelsberg Spatlese Special Collection
Gold 2006 Piesporter Goldtropchen Auslese Special Collection
VERTIKAL wines [...]
I wanted to say thank you to the servers and chef’s out there who cook and serve our meals, and the host that greets me, the busboy (serving assistant I have been informed now days), dishwashers and floor managers. Thank you.
This past weekend I was on my feet for 3 days and remembered what it [...]
I did a very odd thing this year for New Year’s Eve. I traveled. I have never gone anywhere for New Year’s, but this year, my better half and I went with friends to New Orleans. Besieged with college kids for the Sugar Bowl, New Orleans put on the mask of a college town, decorated [...]
To spend any time with Damon Ornowski is a treat to the intellect. He has an encyclopedic memory and can really belt it out in two minutes. In this short take, Damon is waxing on the glories of Gruner.
Next week Damon and I hit the road all across Texas with a carload of Kracher and [...]
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