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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Texas wine
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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Westcave Cellars Winery & Brewery: Good Tastings of Texas Wine, Beer and Food
What Allan and Margaret Fetty started with a backyard vegetable garden and evening glass of wine, in time became Westcave
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2021 Austin County Fair Non-Commercial Wine Show – Call for Entries
Texas’ only County Fair sanctioned non-commercial wine competition returns with the Austin County Fair on Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. Coordinated by the Gulf Coast Winegrowers
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GO FOR THE GOLD – The Lone Star Competition Is Accepting Wine and Label Competition Entries
Texas Wine and Grape Growers Association (TWGGA) invites you to participate in our 38th Annual Lone Star International Wine Competition
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French Connection Wines: It Takes More Than Wine to Make a Wine Trail – You’ll Find It Here!
It was a warm summer afternoon driving east on Route 290. I approached the hamlet of Hye and made a
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Know Your Texas Wines: Register for “Specialist of Texas Wine” Class by Doc Russ, Texas Wineslinger
Celebrate October Texas Wine Month by taking this class and become certified as a Specialist of Texas Wine! NOTE: This
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Messina Hof Winery: Harvest Festival – A Time in the Vineyard for Both a Personal and Communal Experience
The end of summer is near, but the sun is still warm, and the grapes nearly ripened. That can only
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“Johnny Flash” Brings New Portable Flash Détente Unit to Kerrville Hills Winery/Incubator – The Interview [Updated]
Note: Changes were made near the end of this blog to correct statements about the number of flash détente units
Read moreVT Retrospective: Judgment of Houston
VintageTexas blog from September 20, 2008 – Shoot Out at the O.K. Wine Corral One of the pleasures I have
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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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Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green Location Leads the Way into Summer 2021: Part 1
The exciting news in Texas (and particularly in the greater Houston-area) is, Messina Hof Winery just opened a new winery
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Messina Hof’s New Harvest Green Location Leads the Way into Summer 2021: Part 2
As National Wine Day approaches on May 25th, I visited with Messina Hof owners Paul Mitchell and Karen Bonarrigo at
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