3,500 wines, 120 judges, 175 staging volunteers and a partridge in a pear tree. The officials results are in for the Houston Livestock Show & Rodeo’s (HLSR) 2020 Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition. I spent 2 days in mid-November judging wines for the competition. HLSR is a 501(c)(3) organization that
I’m doing the October edition of Eat.Drink.See, so that must mean its November and that all the holiday craziness is about to start. But before I get too deep into sweet potato pies, cornbread dressing, and my favorite American Pinot Noir for Thanksgiving dinner, lets take a look back at
EDS719 was pretty good but now its time for the August edition. And oh August, how I have a love-hate relationship with you! It can be brutally hot as evidenced by the continuous slate of 100+ degree days we had
So this is something new that I’m trying. We eat much good food, drink many great bottles, and see some pretty cool things from time to time. I’m always trying to find a home for the random experiences that define the wine lifestyle, but some things just don’t lend themselves
Yes there are other wines you can have for Thanksgiving (in fact, you can have whatever the hell you want!) but if you want something that will cross the vastness of a meal with turkey, sweet potatoes, cranberries,
Back again for a second year in a row in 2018, the Ruth’s Chris TasteMaker wine dinners have returned and are wowing
It’s cooling off, and I want Merlot! If you’ve been into wine for the last 15 years or so (since I was 10) you know
As I mentioned in a recent post, the little town of Johnson City is doing some flexing and becoming quite a
The big heart day is coming and millions of folks will be sitting down to dinner with their main squeeze. I’ll probably be making dinner
