Quote from the headline in The Comanche Chief Newspaper of July 4, 1913… While most of the nation had to wait until 1919 to enjoy the “benefits” of alcohol prohibition, in 1913 many in Texas […]
What a Difference Four Years Made for Texas Wine – 1910 to 1914 While doing background research for my new book, Texas Hill Country Wineries, for Arcadia Publications, I came across two newspaper advertisements from […]
Frencesco Quaglia: The Man at Val Verde Winery that Gave Texas Wine Heading east from Marathon, I looked out from the road and the isolation in this part of Texas provided me little to announce […]
Need More Good Wines in California (and Texas): Blame Varietals I recently read a good blog on why in the day of modern technology we don’t have more good wines that can be grown in […]
A Land of Limestone Ledges and Red Sandy Soil: Part 2 Continued from: https://vintagetexas.com/?p=790 In my search to define Texas terroir [the sense of place], I often stop to listen for voices of the human […]