Tavola Rosso » texas http://tavolarosso.com the good life = travels + food + wine Sun, 12 Dec 2010 17:34:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Texas Wines http://tavolarosso.com/2009/08/texas-wines/ http://tavolarosso.com/2009/08/texas-wines/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:22:55 +0000 Mark Stoltz http://tavolarosso.com/2009/08/texas-wines/ For my birthday recently my lovely wife surprised me with a trip to the Texas hill country north of our home in San Antonio. The wine industry is Texas is young – 10 years – and most places are trying to see what grows best. Nonetheless having a great wine country ambiance within an hour is nice.

We went to two wineries: Becker and Torre de Pietra. Critique #1: having a huge tasting room jam packed and with pourers who know little if anything about the winery or the wines is lame. Critique #2: a portfolio of over a dozen wines is a bit much, right? Both places committed these errors.

That said, the chenin blanc and reserve cab from Becker were solid wines at good prices – $16 and $24 respectively. The vintage port from Torre was a nice surprise too.

There still much to be discovered in the world of Texas wines, but my hope is we can find a place that cares more about their craft than simply offering $5 tastings to folks excited about having an excuse to drink before noon.

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