Category: TexSom
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Female Winemakers are Making Waves
Becoming a multi-award winning winemaker takes hard work and dedication. Add strength, moxie, intelligence, and class and you’ve got Virginia Willcock, Vasse Felix chief winemaker since 2006. Outspoken about low intervention winemaking and passionate about expressing terroir in every sip, Willcock has elevated Vasse Felix, Margaret River’s founding wine estate and benchmark for the region’s…
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It’s Time to Embrace Turkish Wine
Have do you feel about Turkish wine? For many wine consumers it is an intimidating question. Turkey is a complicated country. However, Turkey is also believed to be the origin of grape domestication, dating back to 9,000 BC! Turkish wines have hard to pronounce names but they are not hard to drink wines. With a…
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Every Wine Lover Should Drink Syrah
Syrah is a versatile grape that is grown in every major wine region in the world. Depending on the climate and winemaking techniques, Syrah offers a range of expressions, appealing to a wide variety of palates. If you like Cabernet Sauvignon or Pinot Noir, Syrah is a wine for you. It is also the sole…
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Is Old World vs New World Still Relevant?
You cannot judge a book by its cover. Are you guilty at times of stereotyping? Making an assumption about someone or something based on your own misperceptions? I am guilty of this at times. How open-minded are you? Are you set in your understanding of things or are you willing to be proven wrong through…
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Vertical to Heaven: Chappellet Tasting at TexSom
While I am in Italy I wanted to share this article I wrote last fall about the epic Chappellet vertical tasting I attended at the 2014 TexSom Conference. Please read and share your thoughts… I had the great pleasure of attending the 10th Annual TexSom Conference in Las Colinas (a suburb of Dallas) in early…
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Bordeaux: Location, Location, Location
What is the first rule of real estate? Location, location, location. The idea as it relates to establishing a business is that it does not matter how great the business may be, if it is not in a high traffic location no one will ever know about it. The catch is the rent will cost…
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Exploring Wine making Choices with #MWWC
Our lives are filled with choices. Do you chose to drink coffee or tea in the morning? If coffee do you chose to drink it with cream and sugar or black? What toppings do you chose to put on pizza? Do you chose action thriller movies or romantic comedies? Chances are if we were aware…
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Iconic Winery Retrospective: Maison Trimbach
Is Stuart Pigott correct when he claims in his book Best White Wine on Earth, that Riesling is the best white wine on earth? It may not be the best but it is certainly high up on the list. Winefolly states, “Riesling wine has emerged as the most collectible wine among top connoisseurs and sommeliers…
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Fifty States of Wine
This is my second post about my experience at Texsom. You will recall from my first post that Texsom was a conference held in August at the Four Seasons Resort and Spa in Las Colinas, a suburb of Dallas, Texas. Though the majority of attendees were wine industry professionals, Texsom was a conference that welcomes…
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