On Oct. 15, The Austin County Fair Wine Show in Bellville was presented by the Gulf Coast Winegrowers Association in partnership with the Austin County office of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Services. […]
NOTE: Sorry to be away from the VintageTexas blog for the past month. Travel, watching and spending time with grandkids, and teaching native plant classes have been keeping me busy to launch any new blogs. […]
Guests will be able to visit the stunning new tasting room and check out their 35 acres of estate vineyards. Wine tastings and tours of the full production facility will be offered from 11:00am to 5:30pm […]
“We’ve had a phenomenal response to my first Level 2 Advanced Specialist of Texas Wine Course offering and held live via Zoom this past April. Level 1 STW graduates came calling. This first advanced Level 2 class was sold out in less than a month.” […]
Applications are open for the Texas Hill Country Wine Industry Scholarship program, sponsored by Texas Hill Country Wineries. Please let everyone know that could benefit from this scholarship assistance. […]
If you’ve been anywhere around Texas wines for the past 15 years or so, either at the winery or in just about any major supermarket you’ve seen Becker Vineyards “Claret – Le Trois Dames”. For many years, this was my “gateway” Texas wine for people that ask me for a suggestion and wanted something they could easily find locally. […]
Hope you are all staying cool this summer, where and when possible! Now, here is something really cool and takes place in the Cool month of October, but you can buy tickets now. […]
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. […]
He announced that his wine company had a partner, a California wine producer. The goal was to begin a brand merchandising program built around the “haversack” theme. What’s a haversack? Well, read further and you’ll find out. […]
Until earlier this year, Grüner Veltliner was not in my Texas wine lexicon. But, there it was. My first thought was how could this be so?After all, Austria is a cool winegrowing region, right? Texas is actually the opposite, being described politely as a “warm” winegrowing region, and less than politely as just “damn hot”. […]