by Mike Dunne | Nov 30, 2022 | Blog
Rather than make a wine and then fish for foods with which to pair it, why not style a wine to accompany a specific type of food? Chaim Gur-Arieh has done just that. His questing, inventive and original mind has created a series of wines carefully conceived to...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 26, 2022 | Blog
The Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo International Wine Competition – Rodeo Uncorked! in cowboy shorthand – has two up-front goals: To showcase Texas wine and to showcase wines from the rest of the world, which is almost as big as Texas itself. Actually,...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 9, 2022 | Blog
Rodeo Uncorked!, the international wine competition of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo, gets under way Friday. This will be the 20th roundup. I haven’t kept track of how many times I have judged at Houston, but show organizers say this is my 18th rodeo.A...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 8, 2022 | Blog
Whenever a pandemic isn’t disrupting the social calendar, I consult each fall with Dr. Ron Jan on the pairing of foods and wines for A Taste of Asia, a banquet fundraiser for the Paul Hom Asian Clinic, the oldest Asian health clinic in the United States, dating...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 6, 2022 | Blog
One person’s name may appear as the author of a book, but many other people help, from providing inspiration to contributing talent. At the top of my list of people to acknowledge and thank for helping me write “The Signature Wines of Superior California:...
by Mike Dunne | Nov 3, 2022 | Blog
In the wake of the George Floyd killing and the wave of protests that followed, Rodney and Susan Tipton asked themselves what they could do to help improve race relations. It was a discussion likely occurring in homes across the country, but the Tiptons were well...
