[ August 25, 2010; 12:00 am to 7:00 pm. ]
Come and enjoy a tasting of summer whites with Master Sommelier, Guy Stout, at the beautiful Hyatt Lost Pines Resort in Bastrop, TX on Wednesday, Aug 25th at 5pm. For reservations please call 512 308 3882, only $20 per person.
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The hallowed West Texas grounds of Perini Ranch and the Buffalo Gap Wine & Food Summit
The Stout Report
By Guy Stout, CWE, MS
Out in the West Texas town of…… You were thinking El Paso, well it’s Abilene, actually, just south of there in Buffalo Gap.
It is home to Perini Ranch Steakhouse, the finest peppered tenderloin you [...]
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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 [...]
Last week I sat down with Bennett Glazer to reminisce about the past 100 years and talk about the future. The interview follows.
AC: Since this is the 100-year anniversary, Bennett, why don’t you tell us how Glazer’s started?
BG: As the story goes, in 1909 my grandfather Louis Glazer settled in Dallas, and that year he and [...]
I first met François in 1981 when I was assigned his account, a wine bar called La Cave. He had ordered a container of 1978 classified growth Bordeaux wine from the company I worked for and he would ask me about the progress of those wines. 1978, at the time was getting good hype and [...]
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James Gunter is a Senior Vice President, Fine Wines for Glazer’s, based out of Addison, Texas. Outside of the corporate world, though, he is one of a handful of people who know the inner workings of the Bordeaux wine industry. In a previous life he could have been a courtier or at the very least, [...]
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Source: Houston Chronicle
By Dale Robertson
Jan. 19, 2009
In terms of volume, the wine business isn’t remotely in a recession. Sales, in fact, may be up over last January. But customers have become a lot more prudent — and
perhaps even more politically correct — in what they’re purchasing.
While a bottle of Krug champagne, sent as a gift [...]
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