Beautiful western belt buckles and gold, silver and bronze medals will be awarded to Texas-made, non-commercial wines at the 15th Annual Texas State-Wide Non-Commercial Wine Competition hosted by the Austin County Fair and Presented by the Gulf Coast Winegrowers Association. […]
In the wild, grapes can hang on the vine between June and October, and in some cases, can remain on the vine into winter. They are moisture and sugar laden and an energy-rich food. Native grapes like European varieties can be consumed by wildlife & humans. Their juice provides a refreshing drink, pleasing jellies and jams, and can also be fermented to make wine. The taste of native grapes varies from what you might expect from European wine grapes, but their role in viticulture is important especially today in Texas. […]
This blog post calls into question some remaining loose ends in the Black Spanish story. […]
Black Spanish is a variety of grape that was originally assumed to be a seedling of an American hybrid grape which resulted from the crossing of the American Vitis aestivalis species with a grape of an unknown Vitis vinifera pollen […]
Just in time for spring, Messina Hof Winery’s Vintage House welcomes guests to try its revamped menu, that continues the tradition of its renowned Vineyard Cuisine™. […]
It was an all-day technical program followed by an afternoon tasting of some of the Texas Gulf Coast area’s wines. […]
This is been one of the most active of recent years for my blog at VintageTexas.com. My guiding light was to offer information and educated insights that Texas wine consumers could use if they were planning a winery visit or a wine purchase from a winery’s online store. […]
From the Sunday Edition of the Galveston Daily News on October 25th of 1868, we can see that the “pure Mustang wine” of Mr. L.N. Halbert of Long Point in Washington County titillated the collective […]
VintageTweets: Texas Native Somm Matt Pridgen Selects Texas Wines for IronSomm Event “RT @edible_houston: Texas Native Matthew Pridgen of @UnderbellyHOU & @Onefifthhouston Picks Texas Wine for Iron Sommelier. #texas #txwine #wine https://t.co/nyYttkvWf7 https://t.co/PI4ueizPPb“ See story […]