With no end yet in sight for the falling economy, we’re always looking for more good wine values to help us through the hard times. Neil recently put up a great post on his favorite white and red house wines, which by his definition must cost less than $15 and preferably less than $10. […]

2007 Clean Slate Riesling Mosel
10% alcohol, Imported by Click Wine Group
Tastes: honey, peaches, a little tart, but good acid, semi-dry with residual sugar
Thoughts: Just as the name describes it – BOLD YET CLEAN SLATE
Clean Slate was an excellent accompaniment to the fantastic salad that Chef Manuel Labor whooped up in his spare time […]

We admire innovators – true innovators look for new ways to do things. They push the old toward the new with a special sense of what is needed to push everything forward toward the future. There are innovators in every field, including wine.
We recently tasted some wines that are coming from one of […]

I am always on the lookout for house wines. You know the wine you open on Wednesday night or after the first bottle is gone and your friend doesn’t look like they intend to leave anytime soon. House wines are an important part of any wine drinker’s cellar, and they need to meet […]

We had our annual anti-Valentine’s day party two  nights ago, and it was a blast. Everyone brought something, and my wife and I filled in the rest. We had barbeque from Lockhart, gulf shrimp, farmer’s market goodies, and stuff from the garden all whipped up into a feast. Of course there was […]

If I open a corked bottle of wine, I’m usually pretty pissed off about it. Though I’ve started saving all my receipts and taking back corked bottles, the culprit is usually some bottle that I’m excited about trying. It happened on my birthday, it happened with a nice Gamay meant to pair with […]

Now is the time that I am supposed to write a post about pairing chocolate and wine or what champagne goes with flavored massage oil, but I just don’t feel like it. Valentine’s Day is designed to get you to feel bad unless you spend lots of money on your significant other.
My wife and […]

Over the past couple of months, we’ve been looking into alternative wine packaging. The packaging technologies we’ve investigated are bag in box (BIB), Tetra Pak, and plastic wine bottles made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET).
Interest in alternative packaging increased dramatically last year when the price of oil headed toward $150 per barrel. You might […]

January is a great month to eat oysters. The name of the month has an “R” in it, and the waters along gulf coast have cooled off, producing plump, sweet oysters with just the right amount of brine. Here in Austin you can get oysters from several local fish mongers, and the WineEnabler.com […]

Interest in the environmental impact of the wine industry has been a topic for sometime. Analysis of the production, distribution, and consumption of wine suggests that the way wine is packaged, how it transported, and how far it is transported are the major contributors to the overall carbon footprint of a bottle of wine.
Of […]