Austinist: Wine: Austinist Visits Becker Vineyards

short-bus

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 16:19:48 -0600

Vee-own-yay. Got it. I'd been pronouncing it like Wagner, as in Richard Wilhelm Wagner. I knew I was likely terribly wrong, but I don't hang around anyone that gives a damn unless my ponderings were to somehow delay the uncorking of the bottle. Thanks for the tip, Tom.

Tom

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 14:32:43 -0600

short-bus: It's pronounced (VEE-OWN-YAY). And yeah, typically Viognier has a spicy taste with apricot or peach kind of flavors. It's usually not buttery, but it's not out of the question. scoop: Saying all Texas wines suck and all Cali wines are great is shortsighted. Franzia and Sutter Homw and all of that crap comes from California. Becker can't compete with the best California wine, but it's much, much better than most of what they make in CA for under $10 per bottle. But your point is taken that TX wines are not yet in the same league on the top end...

scoop jackson

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:57:32 -0600

I like getting drunk in the hills, but Texas Wine is an oxymoron. Oregon wine, yum. Cali wine, yum. Texas beer, yum. Texas wine is for old ladies that like to order things like the Pink Flirt, can't remeber what winery that was... the juice got to me. Texas wine is about as bad as it comes, until you get to Virgina.

short-bus

Tue, 07 Nov 2006 12:22:21 -0600

In june I went to a kick-ass wedding where they were serivng a creamy-delicious white wine which I later found out was Becker's Viognier - about $15 per bottle which, in my mind, is WAY too expensive for a wine form texas. but i keep buying that Voignier (a friend tells me that it's pronounced Vin-Yay but i don't belive him). My girlfriend at the time (sigh - miss her) said it was "spicy" but i didn't think it was spicy. i thot it was buttery. can i use buttery in describing a wine?