The Wine Conference, Houston’s Wine Event

Denman Moody

Denman Moody started Moody’s Wine Review in 1978. In the early ‘80s, The Washington Post said it was “…the best newsletter in this country for tracking the state of rare and exotic wines.” At about the same time, Food and Wine magazine said that Moody was one of their three favorite wine writers along with Robert Finigan and Robert Parker. In 1984, Moody discontinued publication of Moody’s and became the contributing editor on rare wines for the International Wine Review in New York until it sold to Wine and Spirits in 1990.

Moody’s wine articles also have been published internationally in Revue du Vin de France, Paris, The International Wine and Food Society Journal, London, and locally in Houston Home and Garden, DBA Houston, French-American Chamber of Commerce News, Houston CLU Journal, and Texas Monthly. He is wine editor for four cookbooks: Houston Is Cooking, 1994; Houston Is Cooking at Home, 1996; Houston Is Cooking the Best, 1998; and Houston Is Cooking 2000.

Moody has written a monthly wine column since 2000 for Houston Lifestyles and Homes, a popular magazine that is delivered monthly to the top 250,000 homes in Houston. In addition to this, in 2005 and 2006, he edited and published Moody’s Weekly Wine Review, an Internet wine newsletter. He is also a restaurant wine consultant, working with restaurants nationally and internationally, including Café Annie in Houston, Garden of the Gods Club in Colorado Springs, Toscana Country Club in Palm Desert and the Banff Springs Hotel (now the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel) in Canada. He has planned the perfect wines and wine/food pairings for weddings, wine tastings, parties and gourmet wine dinners for over 20 years, and is currently wine consultant for many other food and wine events.

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