It's February and time for a Valentines celebration at Jaxon's in El Paso, Texas. Friends and the owners of Jaxons are Kate and Gary Helston. When you visit El Paso, they have four great restaurants to visit. See you there on February 9th, 2008...

This has been a challenging week in ways that have nothing to do with the wine biz. (I may share why at a future time...) but the net effect is that I have left you hanging about the events of...

No trip to El Paso would be complete without a trip over the border to Juarez. From the razor wire fense separating our countries, to the street vendors - the culture is quite different - just a short walk away. The local beverage was enjoyed by Alvin (our Distributor representative) and Bob...

El Paso has everything from Indians (Ysleta) to the (no so) mighty Rio Grande, to a Panorama view of the west side towards New Mexaco and a simple Taxas State Line sign. The folks of this region have an enormous amount of History. Remember this was part of Mexico not too long ago...

El Bloggo Rollo this morning popped up two very nice reviews: Dezel over at Virginia Wine Spot reviews our 2005 Canterbury Vineyards Viognier (and this may be the first time a rubber chicken spitting a cork has ever been caught...

“%@#$!” Pretty clever, and definitely original. Ever on the cutting edge the Twisted Oak folks, led by El Jefe, also have a very cool blog: El Bloggo Torcido. In their most recent post they present ... Be , and it appears* that El Jefe et. al have taken the idea and run with it. They’ve added an extra bit ... comfortable with wine, and that is good for the entire industry. What El Jefe’s added is a descriptor...

After a great dinner at "Jaxons" in El Paso, Texas - there is always the question of "What to do?" No trip would be complete without a visit to Juarez, Mexico and spending a day with Alvin (our Distributor Sales Manager). By the way the "Kentucky Club" claims to have made the first Margarita - over 100 years ago...

No, this is not wine reviewers to date! (Not that some of them don't look quite date-able...) Rather, some reviews of Twisted Oak are starting to pop up around El Bloggo-sphere-o, and I see that I missed a couple...

... in search of something local to eat. Out on the west side of El Paso, near the mall and my hotel suite, I ... early, I made it from Nashville to El Paso, via San Antonio, by high noon. After an afternoon ... a bit of vanilla. Price: $15 (El Paso). Closure: Real cork. Alcohol content: 13.5 ... Palate's Bitch in stock. Who knew El Paso is so civilized...

Twisted Few members Ken Liz Drachnik sent these along: Ok, these are local, but are warming up our camera to take pics of our Twisted Chicken we call Shaun (as in Of the Dead) in Santa Cruz and Rome. Here...