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Jessica Dupuy, Laurel EvansWhere wine meets story, food meets memory, and travel meets truth—plus the smart, soulful stories the magazines leave out by wine and spirits journalist, cookbook author, and natural-born wanderer Jessica Dupuy.
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Texas Wine, Beyond the Usual Talking Points, Part 2
The Top 12 Texas Wines for the 2026 Vintners Cup before the big reveal. Check out the October issue of Texas Monthly magazine for the results. (Photo by Bill Peary)
In Part 1 on my thoughts on the 2026 Vintners Cup, I wrote about the grape...
Longitudes & Latitudes: A Personal Guide to Montalcino
What to taste, where to eat and how to experience Montalcino beyond the bottle.
I hadn’t planned on writing a guide to Montalcino. But a family member reached out for advice. He’s taking his wife to Tuscany for a month and wanted a few sug...
Texas Wine, Beyond the Usual Talking Points, Part 1
Photo by Bill Peary
A couple of weeks ago, I spent two days tasting nearly 300 Texas wines for the sixth annual Texas Vintners Cup. It’s a yearly evaluation sponsored by the Texas Department of Agriculture that aims to spotlight some of th...
The Culture and Soul of Italian Wine
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In the Texas Hill Country, the River Rises and the Vintage Waits
Flooding at the Pedernales River outside of Johnson City. Photo Credit: Elisa Christopher Wines.
Last Thursday, widespread flash flooding swept across the Texas Hill Country, just over a year after catastrophic floods devastated parts of t...
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