Grayson College Outreach Seminar Profiles Series Starts for Fall 2010 with Winemaking of Argentina The first seminar in the Grayson College Enology Outreach Seminar Profiles Series for the fall will be Monday, September 20, 2010 at the Grapevine Convention Center and will focus on the winemaking of Argentina. It will look at how a winery

Discovering the T.V. Munson Texas-French Grape Legacy on My Own North Forty Some of you may know T.V. Munson, The Grape Man of Texas. He is the horticulturalist/viticulturalist from Texas that correctly identified Texas native vine stock as highly disease resistant and provided it to vineyards in France to use as rootstock in their fight

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 @BinghamVineyard of 8:29 am this morning) for the wine grapes that are still hanging on their vines. See summary below

Write Off the Vine: Texas Wine News – September 3, 2010 Grapevine's 24th annual GrapeFest in September Beverly Burmeier, Austin Adventure Travel Examiner Get your stomping feet ready for the largest wine festival in the Southwest. Come to Grapevine, Texas September 16 – 19, 2010 to celebrate the best of Texas wine at GrapeFest. Enjoy award-winning...

Texas Twitter Tales – Notes on Texas Wines from the World of Social Media @BinghamVineyard: Brix &  pH results for Aug. 30, 2010 http://bit.ly/c5WaWO #TXWine @dry_comal_creek: Lubbock AJ writes about the…cool #txwine passport program: http://ht.ly/2wXZw <–visit wineries and get cool stuff @VintageTexas: ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vint...

VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Vintage Charts Vintage refers to the annual grape harvest and to the wine made from those grapes. In general, every year is a vintage year and all wines are vintage wines except if they are made with a blend of grapes from more than one vintage. The concept of vintage is

Most Popular Blog Posts in August 2010 on VintageTexas What Texas Wine Goes with the “Big Apple” The Wine in Spain Comes Mainly with the Cuisine – 1 Texas’ Self-Proclaimed Wine Czar Speaks: “What’s Good for Languedoc, is Good for Texas. It’s Time for TxQA” Fall Creek Vineyard’s 2010 Grape Stomp and Harvest Festival –

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 things are going in the 2010 Vintage…..afraid to jinx things, perhaps. For the past several years, it has been combinations of late

New Texas Winery Owners "The Bodenstedts" Seems Excited and Well Directed with CapRock Purchase There is finally a sign that things are progressing after the bankruptcy auction purchase of Lubbock's CapRock Winery (www.caprockwinery.com). For background see:  http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=2127. As reported previously, I have been trying to get a ...

Becker Vineyards 2009 Provençal Rosé: Dry and Pink Sooths the Scorch of Summertime Heat This year, we got through July with nary a temperature above ninety-five. But then, August came with a fiery flourish that seemed straight from the dominion of Hades, stoking up the temperatures up to the century mark and beyond. I was looking for

VintageTexas Sunday “Cyclopedia of Wine: Wine Faults I have been doing a lot of blogging on wine quality lately. But, from your perspective as a wine drinker in an evolving wine producing region like Texas (now the fifth largest wine producing state in America), it’s high time to understand some of the basics of what separate

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 for the grape harvest in the Texas High Plains Region. “After a turbulent year, it is great to get back to doing

Texas’  Self-Proclaimed Wine Czar Speaks: What’s Good for Languedoc, is Good for Texas It's Time for TxQA Drinks Business (www.thedrinksbusiness.com) recently reported…. Building upon the AOC Languedoc base first established in 2007, two new tiers have now been created: Grands Vins du Languedoc and Grands Crus du Languedoc, in a move that the indu...

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, and Saturday, August 28th, from 11:00am to 5:00pm, both days at Fall Creek Vineyards, Tow Texas. The annual “Grape Stomp” is ...

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 that could threaten to their expansion into markets outside Texas. The bill, the Comprehensive Alcohol Regulatory Effectiveness Act of 2010 (...

VintageTexas ‘Cyclopedia of Wine: Red Wine Making – Pigéage and Délestage A technique used in red winemaking is the punching down the cap of grape skins that floats to the top of the tank during the beginning of the wine's fermentation. This is done several times a day, occasionally more frequently, to extract color, flavor, and

Kiepersol Estate: Terroir in the Glass and on the Plate…. A Truly Wonderful Combination to Behold Continued from “Traveling the Wine Roads of Northeast Texas Wine Country and the Grape Man of Texas”: http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=1995 – — – — – As I continued my drive through the piney woods of east Texas, I confro...

In a recent blog, I posted my experiences as a limo chaufeured grape picker at the Messina Hof Moonlight Harvest Dinner: Everybody Sing – “Pick, Pick, Pick Your Grapes, Going Down the Row…" (See: http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=2138).  We all had a great time as we linked up with other grape pickers from other venues around the state. Photographer...