Luxury Wine Venture--VOS - Vintage Fine Wines and Spirits--to Join Valley of the Sun and Vintage Selections' Premium Brands

After last year's inaugural event, which didn't feature a lot of local voices and chefs in the panels and sessions, festival organizers have added what they are calling the Chef's Showcase

The Fox School of Wine in Park City is offering a one-hour "Boxed Wine for Warm Adventures" class on Saturday, April 6, where participants will taste two white and three red boxed wines.

Most recently, Texas wines received three double gold, two gold, 29 silver and 40 bronze medals in the 2013 Finger Lakes International Wine Competition in New York. There were 3,505 wines entered from 20 countries and all 50 states.

The Texas Senate moved the state one step closer this week to giving craft beer makers more freedom to sell their brews in more places.

Old railroad spurs and a former alley stand between craft liquor enthusiasts and their Glendale distillery

Craft brewers, two feuding beer wholesaler groups, beer-loving consumer advocates and representatives of some of the largest brewing conglomerates in the world hammered out a deal that had little to do with grains, hops, water and yeast. This was about money

Clive Coates comes to Dallas for a Burgundy dinner on April 7, and if you know anything about fine wine, you know he's royalty in the wine world, a master of wine, an expert's expert. His particular love is France, where he lives in Burgundy, the region whose wines he'll talk about at the upcoming event.

... would prohibit brewery owners from selling distribution rights for their beer and it would restrict them from selling beer at different prices in different geographic areas

The baseball team needs to collect more than 22,000 certified signatures by early May before the Arlington City Council will approve holding a local option election on whether to allow wine sales throughout the ballpark.

Texas Tempranillo has now garnered gold medals, including one at the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition, and many regional winemakers are predicting it will become the state's best-known winegrape.

The Blanc du Bois grapes down in the Rio Grande Valley are budding out. That same varietal is anticipated to bud out in Fort Bend and Galveston Counties.

Economic experts say we are now seeing the benefits of bringing alcohol sales to parts of Smith County.

The county has received several letters of protest and a petition from a coalition of neighborhood residents who have concerns that the winery would add to the traffic congestion in the far North Valley, as well as letters of support for the project.

Texas Hill Country Wineries, a marketing and events association of 32 member wineries within the Texas Hill Country AVA, voted in a new board for 2013.

To complement and expand the Hill Country's robust tourist trade, particularly visits to its vineyards, a group here plans to open a $10 million wine and food center in 2015.

The West Side location near Cottonwood Mall is the 89th store for the Delaware-based chain and the first in New Mexico. A second store is in the works for the Uptown area of Albuquerque.

Utah-based breweries, distilleries and wineries would be allowed to make more of their alcoholic beverage without taking a major financial hit under a bill advancing through the Senate.

After two years of commuting from Ahwatukee to Cochise County, their work on their vineyard bore the fruit that helped them establish their winery.

Lawmakers have introduced a handful of bills pending this year that would ease Utah regulations, including a measure allowing customers to order a drink before they order food and another to make more liquor licenses available to restaurants.