Some of the worlds best wines can be found at the rodeo including championship pours at the grape-happy wine garden
Winning wines from the Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition are served at RodeoHouston's Champion Wine Garden.Although it may seem incongruous at first glance, bubbles and bull riding will share almost equal billing during the 2023 Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo. But it makes perfect sense considering that promoting agriculture through a vast array of scholarships is central to RodeoHouston’s mission and grape-growers are most definitely farmers.
However, the man behind the current Grand Champion Best of Show bottle is the rapper Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, which segues nicely, too. Music, of course, is a critical component of the 20-day cowboy and cowgirl jam on the NRG grounds that’s equal parts sports spectacle, songfest and swirling-and-sipping extravaganza. Once again, theat Carruth Plaza between NRG Stadium and the Astrodome will become the city’s most visited wine bar from Feb.
Jackson considers Houston his home these days, so his champagne’s topping a field of 3,071 entries from 18 countries in the 20th annual Rodeo Uncorked! International Wine Competition is all the more special. The Le Chemin du Roi, which sells for about $142 at Spec’s, had previously claimed Reserve Grand Champion honors in 2021, the news of which, Jackson said, “Almost made me faint.”
The thinking-out-of-the-box idea for inserting a wine component into the rodeo’s mix was the end result of many conversations between the late Bear Dalton and his close friend, former Houston Chronicle wine writer Mike Lonsford. Dalton was an expert horseman who was involved with the rodeo when he became Spec’s fine-wine buyer.
“Bear was our resident cowboy,” Spec’s Wine and Spirits owner John Rydman said when Dalton passed away in December 2020. “I turned the Bordeaux aisle over to him and sent him to France. Then I could hardly get him back.”The Wine Garden will be open 4-11 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 4 p.m.-midnight on Friday, 11 a.m.-midnight on Saturday and noon-10 p.m. on Sunday.
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