Category: Reviews

  • Celebrate Your Love with Sparkling Wine from Limoux! (redux)

    Celebrate Your Love with Sparkling Wine from Limoux! (redux)

    This post was originally published on January 30, 2016. Tim and Phyllis have since sold French Country Wines and sadly, the new owners do not carry this lovely wine. Wine lovers in Houston and nationally are discovering sparkling wines that originated nearly 100 years before Dom Pérignon was born, and years before Champagne became the…

  • 2009 Stark Viognier, Damiano Vineyard, Sierra Foothills

    2009 Stark Viognier, Damiano Vineyard, Sierra Foothills

    We, like many people we know ‘cellar’ our red wines. I say “cellar” because Houston homes do not have basements so any wine aging room is often custom designed to mimic the temperature and humidity found in a European cellar or a California cave. We do not have that luxury, so our wines aged for…

  • Steele Stymie Founder’s Reserve 2016 Syrah

    Steele Stymie Founder’s Reserve 2016 Syrah

    Last night we joined a group of other wine folks for a virtual tasting of Steele Wines with winemaker and owner Jed Steele.  With over 50 years’  in the wine industry, Jed started with a cellar position after playing basketball on scholarship for Gonzaga University, then went back to school at University of California -…

  • Brys Estate Reserve Pinot Noir 2016

    Brys Estate Reserve Pinot Noir 2016

    The 2016 Brys Estate Vineyard and Winery Pinot Noir from Old Mission Peninsula AVA is 100 percent Pinot Noir estate grapes from Traverse City, Michigan. A lighter ruby Burgundian style, it features smoked cherry and cola flavors.  We paired it with red lentils and sliced pork belly. 13.5% ABV $32 For more information about Brys Estate…

  • DO Montsant on the Precipice: Vinyes Domènech

    As I stand on the path that leads from the tasting room through the vineyard to the edge of a precipice at Vinyes Domènech the Latin phrase in situ comes to mind. Literally, the phrase translates to “on-site.” To the archeologist, an artifact in situ is one that he or she unearths and records at…

  • 2008 Jemrose “Gloria’s Gem” Proprietary Blend

    Often when we put together wine and food pairings the food comes first, and then the wine. Not this time. Knowing the intensity and flavor of this 2008 deep red vixen from Bennett Valley in Sonoma County, we needed something with gusto to stand up to it. Enter pork belly. Pork belly is so very…

  • Celebrate Pedroncelli 90th Anniversary with Sauvignon Blanc Pairing!

    Looking for an easy summer pairing to wow guests? Try Pedroncelli 2016 Dry Creek Valley East Side Vineyards Sauvignon Blanc with Mediterranean style Kalamata, Lemon and Feta Chicken for a fabulous flavorful earth and sunshine combination. Celebrating its 90th Anniversary, multi-generational family-owned Pedroncelli Winery is hosting on-site and virtual tastings with family owners sharing their latest…

  • Wines wow capacity crowd, help raise over $200k for at-risk students

    For the third straight year, Another Wine Blog-curated wines wowed guests and helped raise money for Communities in Schools – Bay Area at the Sixth Annual Raise Your Glass to CIS, part of the Charity Golf Tournament at Bay Oaks Country Club. This year’s combined proceeds exceeded the organization’s “stretch goal” of $200,000 by $17,000…

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  • National Beer Day research says Hispanics Drink Better Brews

    Millennials make up 35.5 percent of the craft beer consumption according to research compiled by Lopez Negrete Communications in anticipation of National Beer Day: April 7, 2017.  While Hispanics are only 14% of millennial craft beer drinkers, 54% queried said they would try craft beer if they knew more about it. We’re here to help.…