The exciting news in Texas (and particularly in the greater Houston-area) is, Messina Hof Winery just opened a new winery location in Richmond called Messina Hof Harvest Green Winery & Kitchen. As the newest member of […]
Blanc Du Bois: Texas Grown – Gulf Coast and Now Beyond Excerpt from Edible Houston Celebration May/June 2016 Issue story: Blanc Du Bois: Texas Grown – by Russ Kane of VintageTexas. Copies of this issue […]
News: Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo Receives UC Davis Winemaking Certificate The credentials and winemaking accolades of Paul Mitchell Bonarrigo, son of Paul V. and Merrill Bonarrigo and heir-apparent at Messina Hof Winery, continue to grow. As […]
Amazon customers can purchase directly from Texas wineries Amazon.com, Inc. announced that customers can now place orders on Amazon Wine (amazon.com/wine) for delivery to Texas. Amazon Wine offers vast wine-country selection and allows customers to […]
Austin Food & Wine Festival April 27, 2013: Texas Wines – Ready for the Main Stage The 2013 Austin Food & Wine Festival is coming up fast and on Saturday morning April 27, 2013, […]
Texas Grape Growers Committee to host Blanc Du Bois Symposium: May 10, 2013 I’ve had some pretty good comments back (many by direct email rather than comments on the blog) from my recent post about Messina […]
VintageTexas Top Ten Texas Wines of 2012 – White Wines The naming of the top ten Texas wines has become our VintageTexas annual tradition. After Jessica Dupuy’s fine retrospective of her top Texas wines of […]
Port-Style Wines: Not Just for Old Fogeys Anymore! My new Texas Wineslinger wine column on Lubbockonline.com went live tonight (click here). It was a bit of a free form narrative titled “Texas Has Many Ports […]
What Texas Wines to Pair with the Deep Fried Food Finalists at the 2012 State Fair of Texas? CultureMap Houston broke the “big story” today about the finalists in the 2012 State Fair of Texas […]
Messina Hof Winery Harvesting: “More fun than I thought it would be!” I was recently part of a limo-driven labor force on route from Houston to Bryan, Texas, to participate in this year’s harvesting of […]