Early Medals Showed Texas Winemaking Potential, Those in Recent Years Show Its Success
It must have been jubilation for winery owner and winemaker Bobby Cox of Lubbock’s Pheasant Ridge Winery following the 1985
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The “Roussanne Advantage”: The White Grape for Texas
Roussanne, the best white grape for Texas – It can handle was all Texas weather can throw at it and makes great wine, too!
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Holiday Time is Always the Right Time for Sharing The Wineslinger Chronicles
Books are always in fashion, a perfect gift for those that share your love of life and love of wine.
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Oberon Wines: King of Potions and Bordeaux Varietals Grown in Napa Valley
From a 13th century French song, Oberon was known as an elven man of the forest living not far from Bordeaux.
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Texas Tech Viticulture Certificate Program Accepting Applicants
Texas Vineyards and Wineries, Do you have an employee, family member, or friend that would like additional training in grape
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Hamel Family Wines: Sonoma Terroir-Driven Red Wines Are Coming to Texas
Wine Drinking in Texas… If you drive on Route 12 north of the city of Sonoma, California, look to the
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Rosé wines from Château de Berne / Ultimate Provence: A Secret Backcountry of Provence Experience
Wine Drinking in Texas… The French region of Provence, while world-famous for its rosé wines, is less appreciated for the
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Sangiovese Two-Ways: A Texas Terroir Tasting (Texas High Plains vs Hill Country)
If you were in France and talked terroir with winegrowers there – for example in Burgundy, Wedding Oak Winery Winemaker
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Kerrville Hills Winery: Another Side of “Johnny Tannat” Rivenburgh – Sagrantino
In recent stories and blog posts on the Internet, you’ve probably seen reference to Texas hill country winemaker John Rivenburgh
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Wedding Oak Winery: Seeing the Future in Red Blends and Roussanne for Texas
Seth Urbanek, the winemaker at Wedding Oak Winery, said “I’ve been making wine for ten years. With three vintages here
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Burklee Hill Vineyards: Both Winery and Wine Director are Evolving Quickly…
… and producing some excellent wines. Burklee Hill Vineyards with its bistro-tasting room located in downtown Lubbock is not far
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Update: 29th Annual Gulf Coast Winegrowers Field Day Rescheduled May 7th
29th Annual Gulf Coast Winegrowers Field Day Rescheduled for May 7 – 8:00am – 3:30pm, Cat Spring Agricultural Society Hall, 13035 Hall
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29th Annual Gulf Coast Winegrowers Field Day Rescheduled for May 7, 2021
The Gulf Coast Winegrowers Association 29th Annual Field Day, postponed in February due to Covid 19 has been rescheduled for May
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Roussanne – Texas’s Age Worthy White Grape
I just realized that I had acquired a decade’s worth of wine made from Roussanne, the acknowledged ageable white wine
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Bending Branch Winery Visit: What a Difference a Year Has Made
COVID-19 has seen to it that it has been over a year since my wife and I have made a
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