There’s a saying round these parts that if you don’t like the weather in Texas, wait a minute and it’ll change. The truth of this quaint sentiment anxiously awaited all foreigners (read: non-Texans) over the weekend of May 18th and 19th, where Austin’s Jester King Brewery hosted the first-ever Wild World Natural Wine Festival. Over the course of the mostly outdoor two-day … [Read more...] about Inside Wild World, The Great New Texas Natural Wine Festival
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Natural Wine Has No Calories
In addition to being free of added sulfites, fining agents, chemical additives, centrifugal alcoholic manipulations, chaptalization, wood chips, vanilla extract, diethylene glycol, dried swim bladders, bovine stomach acid, Mega Purple, and dozens more wine-helping chemicals currently undergoing rigorous testing at the University of California-Davis, today it was discovered that … [Read more...] about Natural Wine Has No Calories
Dallas: Meet Nate Ready And Taste Hiyu Wines At Bar & Garden
Minimal intervention wine is slowly finding footing in Dallas, thanks in no small part to Bar & Garden (previously featured here on Sprudge Wine). If you happen to find a splash of Populis at a Metroplex restaurant or cafe, it is because they either got it directly from B&G or were introduced to it by B&G. As a denizen of the Big D, it pleases me greatly. And Bar … [Read more...] about Dallas: Meet Nate Ready And Taste Hiyu Wines At Bar & Garden
Lovely Wines At The New Bar & Garden Dallas
After spending the past few years hunting down natural wine in Dallas, I was told by a number of local wine shops and big-box stores that it didn’t exist. “Do you mean biodynamic wine?”, they'd ask, and before I could explain "Well yes, but..." I'd be ushered towards something that didn't exactly fit the bill. But in most cases the people I spoke with here in Dallas denied that … [Read more...] about Lovely Wines At The New Bar & Garden Dallas