It’s a Brix Horse Race on the Texas High Plains with Tempranillo in the Lead I just saw the Brix number’s posted on the Bingham Family Vineyards website (actually a link from their Twitter post […]
Texas Twitter Tales – Notes on Texas Wines from the World of Social Media Its good to see how many people are using the hashtag #TXwine to tag their tweets…. For those of you not […]
In Texas, 2010 is Stacking Up to be the “Vintage of the Century” Texan winegrowers have been so shell shocked over the past several years, it seems like nobody wants to talk about the way […]
CapRock Winery Starts New Chapter; Begins Crushing Grapes for Huge Texas Harvest CapRock projects its largest grape crush/press service to date in 2010. The initial days of harvest confirm that this will be an excellent year […]
Fall Creek Vineyard’s 2010 Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival – August 21 and 28, 2010 Don’t miss this year’s 21st Annual Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival at Fall Creek Vineyards (www.fcv.com) THIS Saturday, August 21st, […]
Write Off The Vine: Texas Wine News – August 17, 2010 Proposed Federal Alcohol Law Could Limit Texas Wineries’ Growth Local and state wine makers are calling on Congress to kibosh a proposed federal law […]
In a recent blog, I posted my experiences as a limo chauffeured grape picker at the Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…” (See: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=2138). […]
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 […]
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 […]