Two Texas Wineries Win at Two Rosé Wine Competitions

Texas Wine Lover 5/26 12:58P Jeff Cope

2022 Experience Rosé Wine Competition Wedding Oak Winery was awarded a Double Gold medal and a 97-point score for its 2021 Castanet rosé at the 2022 Experience Rosé Wine Competition . Judging took...

Wine & Food Week Returns for a Full Week

Texas Wine Lover 5/26 12:40A Jeff Cope

The week-long Wine & Food Week returns to The Woodlands June 6 – 12 with an entirely new event lineup to celebrate 18 years of all things wine and food. Featuring hundreds of wines, scores of...

Tyler Bower of Wintergrass Vineyard and Winery Winemaker Profile

Texas Wine Lover 5/24 12:44A Jeff Cope

Wintergrass Vineyard and Winery is a new winery that has opened in Cleburne and it did not take long to start gaining fans of its wines. The winemaker behind those wines is co-owner Tyler Bower. We...

Reddy Vineyards

Texas Wine Lover 5/20 1:00A Jeff Cope

Reddy Vineyards has long been known as one of the pioneering and premier grape growers in Texas led by Dr. Vijay Reddy who started growing grapes in 1997. Since 2019, the vineyard started making its...

Dotson-Cervantes – Voca, TX

Texas Wine Lover 5/19 1:01A Jim Baker

Our second stop in our Mason County winery tour was to Dotson-Cervantes in Voca. We met Alphonse Dotson and Martha Cervantes years ago at William Chris Vineyards where they were selling their Gotas de...

Cassaro Winery Corsicana

Texas Wine Lover 5/18 12:25A Jeff Cope

Cassaro Winery in Ovilla, Texas is located south of Dallas and since 2019 when they first opened, owners John and Jill Matthews have been expanding constantly. Their location in Ovilla is well-known...

Dare To Discover Our Outdoors By Dining Al Fresco with Open Palette at Sheraton Dallas

Denton BubbleLife iReporter 5/18 12:24A Culver Public Relations

Open Palette's second Al Fresco Dining Experience event which includes all-you-can-eat BBQ, beer, wine and live music is this Saturday, May 21 from 2pm to 6pm.  Open Palette is located inside Sheraton...

How and When did Europe Discover American Wines?

Texas Wine Lover 5/17 12:22A Guest

The history of American wines is a synthesis of the history of the United States and the American way of life. Waves of colonization, prohibition, wars, and finally notoriety, the result of long...

One Plus One: The Ultimate Wine and Steak Pairing Guide

Texas Wine Lover 5/17 12:20A Guest

Learning the proper way to pair wine and steak is one of the essential tools in your wine knowledge repertoire. Don’t be fooled by the idea that any red wine will be able to match any cut of red meat....

2022 Great American International Wine Competition – Texas Results

Texas Wine Lover 5/16 1:21P Jeff Cope

The 2022 Great American International Wine Competition was held April 23-24, 2022, in Rochester, NY. All the results can be seen on their website . These are the Texas wineries that were awarded...

1900 Winery at The Heart of Art

Texas Wine Lover 5/13 12:22A Jim Baker

On our last trip to the Hill Country, we wanted to spend a day focused on the new wineries that have opened in the Mason County area since our last visit. We weren’t able to visit them all, but we...

Lower Greenville Loses Another Excellent Restaurant as Rapscallion Closes

Eater Dallas 5/12 5:27A Courtney E. Smith

Rapscallion on Lower Greenville Plus a lot of good news, from second location expansions to the reopening of some beloved favorites. Bad news for people who love good food: Rapscallion on Lower...

May is National Bar-B-Que Month Soulmans Bar-B-Que Celebrates the Tradition of Meat on the Menu

Denton BubbleLife iReporter 5/11 1:26A Dana Cobb

For more than 45 years, mouth-watering meat cooked low-and-slow has been the crown jewel on the menu at  Soulmans Bar-B-Que . May is the time to celebrate the 2022 Bar-B-Que season launching in the...

2022 Rootstock Wine Festival

Texas Wine Lover 5/7 11:29A Neal Addy

April 30, 2022 After a two-year hiatus, the Rootstock Wine Festival was back! Rootstock is an annual wine festival held in Waco that celebrates Texas wines. This year s festival was coordinated by...

Inaugural Texas Wine Auction Raises $130K

Texas Wine Lover 5/4 7:04A Jeff Cope

Texas Wine Revolution (TWR), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is proud to announce that their inaugural Texas Wine Auction raised a total of $130,000 through donations made through ticket sales...