Pat Wilson August Winetasting for the Tuesday Tasters was hosted by Joyce and Bill Marshall. As a twist, because many members travel at this time of the year, everyone attending was invited to bring a guest along as we went on a trip to Chile. The Carménère grape accounts for the vast majority of wine…
Nancy Toppan There’s never a bad time in Texas to celebrate Tex-Mex, wine pairings and birthdays. On a hot summer evening in August at the home of Al and Vivian Wright, it just got hotter when members of “Heard It Through The Grapevine” spiced up Al Wright’s 77th birthday with their spicy hot dishes. To…
Bernadette Fideli The Sommelier Wine Awards is a wine competition with a difference; it focuses entirely on wines aimed at the on-trade. It is a key competition for wines trying to increase their presence in hotels, bars and restaurants. All wines are tasted blind by a panel of top critics, and this year German wines…
Pat Wilson July 21 brought a trip to the Bordeaux region of France for the Tuesday Tasters. The trip was hosted by Mike and Susan Milosar. We tasted some very good wines along with delicious appetizers. The voting was very close, but the winning wine was a 2012 Mouton Cadet brought by John and Paula…
Bernadette Fideli Summertime brings its share of leisurely gatherings, and none was more unique than the “Summer ‘quaffing’ Wine Tasting” Frank and Beverlee Deardorff hosted on their patio for the Wine Stewards. Imagine the interest and intrigue when the guests received an invitation to experience six summer quaffing wines, especially when they read the definition…
Texas is one of the oldest wine growing states in the U.S. with vines planted here more than a hundred years earlier than California or Virginia. The advent of the Temperance Movement and Prohibition virtually eliminated the Texas wine industry, which did not experience a revival until the 1970s, beginning with the founding of Llano…
Janie Farnsworth On Tuesday, April 21, the Tuesday Tasters were hosted by me, Janie Farnsworth, to take a Mediterranean cruise and bring wines from that region. The hostess wishes to thank John Saunders for helping distribute the wine and calculate the winning points. His numbering system will forever be unique only to John. We had…
Bernadette Fideli Ask most people what kind of Spanish wine they enjoy and most will enthusiastically reply, “Sangria!” Spain has much more to offer in wine than this fortified fruity punch. Eileen Whittaker and Jim Fox delighted the Wine Stewards with an educational evening exploring the world of Spanish wines. If one mostly drinks wines…
David Laschinger A long-time wine club in The Ranch that recently re-branded itself as Meritage, made its first out-of-town adventure in March. The trip, which had been planned for several months, was to Kiepersol Estates south of Tyler, Texas, about 2 1/2 hours east of Denton. Eight couples in the group arrived at Kiepersol by…
Lolly Evans The Peddler’s Emporium is an antiquer’s dream. They have all kinds of furniture and accessories, most Victorian, for sale. However, if you “knock on the door in the back of the store” you will gain entrance to PRIME, a steakhouse serving prime steaks. The owners are shooting for a speakeasy atmosphere. Never having…