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A Great Week in Texas at Fredericksburg Food & Wine.
It’s the month of October.
I spent the week cruising up and down Highway 290 in the Hill Country between Fredericksburg, Texas and Stonewall. Tasted over 200 wines for a Buyer’s Guide that will appear in the Jan/Feb 2027 Print Issue of Tasting Panel Magazine, on the mag’s website and here on C&Co.
Upcoming: Buyer’s Guides: EAST MEETS WEST (Santa Barbara County and New York State) – to publish in the October/November 2026 issue of The Tasting Panel Magazine and here online. It also includes my Short List Report on my June trip to Bordeaux to taste 2025s and a host of other vintages.
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ICYMI: Jonathan Cristaldi is named Chief Wine Critic for The Tasting Panel Magazine and Somm Journal, moving up the masthead from Editor-at-Large, a role he served in for over a decade.
Some changes are coming to C&Co. as we begin publishing reviews in Tasting Panel print and online, and transition this site into the realm of Video Podcasting. Great things are coming for subscribers. TBA! See my missive about it all.
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