2025 TEXSOM Awards – Texas Results

Texas Wine Lover 3/26 9:05P Jeff Cope

The 2025 TEXSOM Awards have been announced, and these are the results for Texas wineries. The TEXSOM Awards judging took place February 15 18, 2025 at Irving Convention Center at Las Colinas. There...

Stray Grape Urban Winery

Texas Wine Lover 3/26 8:00P Jeff Cope

More and more wineries are opening around the San Antonio area, but Stray Grape Urban Winery has been in San Antonio since 2008. It started as a Water 2 Wine franchise by the Burke sisters and they bought the business and renamed it in 2012 to...

Best Wines to Accompany a Poker Night

Texas Wine Lover 3/26 7:54P Gus Hall

Even though wine has actually been a staple of social gatherings for a long time, people no longer use it just for fancy dinners or romantic evenings. According to recent data wine sales continue to increase globally, with older demographics...

Where to Eat in Arlington

Eater Dallas 3/25 3:04A Courtney E. Smith

Baked lasagna is the house speciality at Piccolo Mondo. | Piccolo Mondo For concerts, football, and baseball games, there are great spots to eat at like Cane Rosso, Soy Cowboy, and Smoke’N Ash BBQ...

What to Eat at Arlington’s Globe Life Field, Home of the Texas Rangers

Eater Dallas 3/24 6:02A Courtney E. Smith

Globe Life Field is ready to welcome Texas Rangers fans with some thrilling dishes. | Matthew Pearce All the new stuff to try this year, including dishes filled with lobsters and drunken noodles, plus...

Kenny's Restaurant Group to Reward Most Loyal Fans with Free Food

Mansfield BubbleLife iReporter 3/23 11:12P Kelly Hunter

All the restaurants founded by noted chef and restaurateur Kenny Bowers have grown with the premise that every day is a holiday and every meal a feast. The restaurants care and dedication to their...

Land of Promise Comes to Fredericksburg

Texas Wine Lover 3/21 12:05A Jeff Cope

Land of Promise is a family-owned winery that has established itself as a producer of exceptional, estate-grown wines in Sonoma County with its Terra de Promissio vineyard . Owners Charles and Diana Karren started their Sonoma County vineyard in...

Happy 14th Anniversary to Texas Wine Lover!

Texas Wine Lover 3/20 12:11A Jeff Cope

Fourteen years. Wow! The Texas Wine Lover (TWL) blog was founded on March 20th, 2011, and it’s still growing strong. There aren’t many weeks that go by without a new blog post being published. Recently we learned that Texas Wine Lover was awarded...

Qu’s 2025 State of Digital Report: How Restaurants Can Win with Direct Ordering, Smarter Tech and...

Restaurant News 3/19 7:34A RestaurantNews.com

Brands shift to first-party sales, consolidate tech stacks and invest in data-driven personalization to drive long-term growth Arlington, VA  ( RestaurantNews.com )  Qu , the creator of the industry’s leading cloud-native Unified Commerce...

Tacos and Tequila Festival Adds Hip-Hop Heavyweights to its Lineup!

Mansfield BubbleLife iReporter 3/19 12:56A Kathy Beazley

The ultimate fusion of hip-hop, tacos, and tequila just got even hotter! The 4th annual Tacos and Tequila Festival at Panther Island Pavilion on May 17 is turning up the heat with four legendary new...

Culinary Delights Abound this Spring at These North Texas Food and Wine Festivals

Eater Dallas 3/18 4:33A Courtney E. Smith

Time to line up for entry to the Fort Worth Food + Wine Festival. | Nancy Farrar Events such as Savor and food and wine festivals at the Dallas Arboretum and in Fort Worth offer great eats and drinks...

Alicia Whitby Winemaker Profile

Texas Wine Lover 3/18 12:05A Jeff Cope

Some winemakers are born in the wine industry and others find their calling later in life. Alicia Whitby of Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards is one of the latter winemakers. Alicia started in the military and held other jobs once back to being a...

Reddy Wines Opens New Tasting Room in Texas Hill Country

Texas Wine Lover 3/14 12:11A Jeff Cope

Reddy Vineyards has had a long history in the Texas High Plains starting with their family vineyard in 1997 and then the start of making estate wines in 2019 . The winery is available for winery tours by appointment in Brownfield, but now there is...

Wine & Wildflower Journey Passport 2025 Available Now from Texas Hill Country Wineries

Texas Wine Lover 3/13 12:13A Jeff Cope

Tickets are now on sale for the 2025 Texas Hill Country Wineries’ (THCW s) Wine & Wildflower Journey Passport . The Passport event will take place from March 24th to April 18th giving plenty of time to visit 45+ wineries in the Texas Hill...

Carter Creek Winery Announces Release of Estate Wine Made with New Disease Resistant Vines

Texas Wine Lover 3/12 12:05A Jeff Cope

Adopting a more sustainable, proactive approach to winemaking,  Carter Creek Winery Resort & Spa has released its first-ever estate wine, the 2023 Estate Red. Crafted from Pierce’s disease (PD)-resistant vines grown on the property, this...