The WineEnablers are very busy lately.  More content coming soon.  Promise.

We wanted to try several wines for Wine Blogging Wednesday (WBW), so we started with Champagne from Georges Lacombe. The Grande Cuvee is a tart, food-needy Champers. It’s bright, floral, with coarse bubbles. There are other bubbles that you can get for this price ($25) that might score higher, but this is […]

Brunch wine: 10-1 pm. Spritz with Grapefruit out the “wazoo.” Quite lovely, really. Again, a morning wine—would go wonderfully w/frittata. Smells like yeast and sunshine. Celery. It’s a “got up Sunday morning and spent too much money on shoes wine.” The shoes are open-toed w/heels.

July is the summer month — full of sun, fun, festivals, and gatherings. This year, two of my favorite things are showcased in July of 2009 — good wine at The Second Annual North American Wine Bloggers Conference and the sounds of jazz at the Montreal Jazz Festival.
The WineEnabler Crew attended the First Annual […]

I am not much of a horse race fan. Maybe it is because I grew up in Texas where rodeo was big, but for horse racing you had to drive to Louisiana. But the Triple Crown is different. It has more than enough pageantry, funny hats, beautiful horses, beautiful women, and hoopla […]

A friend of mine sent me a link to a nice graphic of per capita RED wine consumption in the world in 2006. I thought it was fun, so I’m just sharing.

The summer heat has arrived early in Austin, making me think about the white wines of summer. This past Friday, the WineEnabler crew got together and put several white wines to the test.
The six wines we tasted were Michel Redde La Moynerie Pouilly-Fumé 2005 ($11.25!), Oro de Castilla Verdejo 2007 ($13.99), Pieropan Soave Classico […]

Ridge wines are special to me. When I was first learning to taste wine about a year-and-a-half ago, I had my first a-ha moment with wine while drinking a wine from Ridge. Neil and Kathy had invited Rachael and I over to their house for a wine tasting party. To help us […]

If you look around you can find a small group of American wineries that are not following the crowd or the critics. Instead, these wineries are following the grapes to produce individual, authentic wines. I really enjoy finding these wines and sharing them with friends. Recently, we received a sample of wines […]

It’s hotter than a “modie-fo” here in Austin, Texas, and it isn’t even EASTER for crying out loud. You may ask yourself what is a “modie-fo?” Well, it’s just a made up word of mine that I bet you can figure out all on your own. Anyhow, the point is that we […]