Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…” This time our Houston-based picking crew departed the I-610 West Loop embarkation point with the destination set for […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – August 6, 2010 — — — — — Texas Wine Round-up: Mandola winery changes owners and name; state revamps online grape registry; More by David Furer Texas’ […]
Jim Bodenstedt Submits Winning Bid for CapRock Winery in Second Round Auction Its been a long time in coming and I hope that we don’t have to go through another round of bidding. 2:14 pm – […]
Will the Fat Lady Finally Sing? CapRock Bids Are In – Judges Hearing at 2:30 Today (What’s the Scuttlebutt? How about the Rangers?) The much anticipated announcement that will tell us the winner in the […]
Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – July 22, 2010 Texas Wine of the Month: Dry Comal Creek Vineyards, Black Spanish Reserve, 2008 by Jessica Dupuy, Eat My Words Among the few varietals Texas […]
Texas Wine Quality: Something that Will Get Even Better the More We All Talk About It Realize that now Texas wineries have obtained a certain level of acceptance from consumers and support by the legal […]
Bless the Grapes. Now, Let the Harvesting Begin! With Video It was early today when I picked up some provisions at Starbucks and picked up my daughter Caroline in Pearland, Texas. Our plans were to […]
My Messina Hof Winery Harvest Dinner It was sure hot today in Houston. It seemed even hotter than the 108 F heat index since I was scurrying to get done what I needed to do […]
CapRock Winery Auction Today: What Do You Think About This Scenario? Will it happen? Could it Happen? In a perfect world…. Several of the Texas High Plains growers get together and not only run a […]
When You Have Texas Roussanne, Who Needs Chardonnay Roussanne is a variety of Vitis Vinifera with yellow-green colored berries, which gain a rosey hue under sunny conditions, that originated from France. It has several common […]