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Texas Wine In the News

1. Condé Nast Traveler: “This Once-Quiet Texas Town Is Now a Booming Wine Destination”
2. New Zealand Herald: “US travel: The surprising wine region you might never have heard of”
3. PR NewsWire: “Finger Lakes Winery Plants New Roots in Texas”
4. Carl Hudson for Texas Wine Lover: “Less Recognizable Grape Varieties in Texas and Their Unfamiliar Pronunciations”
5. Wine Enthusiast: “A Beginner’s Guide to All Things Ice Wine”
6. Rootstock Wine Fest TICKETS - Use code “Shelly” for 10% off
7. Toast of Texas TICKETS - Use code “Shelly” for $10 off

Interview with James Tidwell, MS

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Texas Hill Country Wineries invites you to “Drink it All in” with the 2022 Texas Wine Month Passport. This self-guided tour is your passport to exploring over forty wineries in the Texas Hill Country between October 1 and 31. As a passport holder, you can visit up to four wineries per day for all thirty-one days, plus receive exclusive discounts on bottle purchases!

Buy your tickets now at www.texaswinetrail.com and head for the hills all month of October.

1. Lana Bortolot for Forbes “Wines for Your Sunday BBQ”
2. Press Release: Kalasi Cellars Brings Optical Grape Sorting to Texas
3. Dallas Morning News: The Best Things We Ate Last Week … were Kuhlman Cellars’ Herbed Almonds!
4. Dallas Morning News “Eat Drink D-FW” Podcast: “Texas’ Wine Industry is Bigger and Better Than Ever” Apple Podcast Link
5. Texas High Plains Wine Trail
6. Register for TWGGA’s Grape Camp
7. Get Tickets to Texas Wine Jam 9/4
8. Texas Fine Wine’s Summer Sunset Cruise 9/8 and Texas Wine Month Dinner 9/30

Interview with Kyle Frazier, TWGGA Legislative Advocate  

TWGGA Advocacy News

Gold Star  

Kudos to podcast listeners for being awesome!

Demerit  

None this time.

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Texas Wine In the News

1. Texas Winemakers Docuseries! WATCH HERE
2. Amy Beth Wright for Wine Enthusiast:We Are Not Constrained by Tradition: The Budding Wine Scene in Fredericksburg, Texas
3. Dale Robertson of the Houston Chronicle: List of Recent Articles
4. Wine Spectator Grand Award Winners
5. William Chris Wine Company Purchases Hoover Valley Vineyard: PRESS RELEASE
6. Walker County vineyards rebound after losing crop after historic winter storm

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Interview: Ron Yates of Spicewood Vineyards and Ron Yates Wines

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Demerits and Gold Stars

Demerit: Hill Country restaurants that don’t have any Texas wine on the wine list!

Gold Star: Hill & Vine in Fredericksburg!

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Texas Wine In the News

1. Latest recorded freeze in Texas history
2. Barnhill Vineyard and Winery is For Sale
3. Wine & Food Foundation’s Toast to Texas Wine
4. Wine Spectator: “Top Notch Restaurants Celebrating Local Wine”
5. Kalasi Cellars' New Production Facility
6. Food & Wine: The Five Best Wine Road Trips in the U.S.
7. Texas Monthly: 8 Wineries that do Texas Spring Right
8. Houston Chronicle:“Your Ultimate Guide to the Best of Texas Wine Country”

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Interview: Randy Hester of CL Butaud and Papa Frenchy
 

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Book Review

Texas Winery Dogs by Andrew Chalk

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Texas Wine In the News

1. VinePair names Southold’s All Things Go #8 best wine of 2020
2. CL Butaud & Wine for the People Tasting Room Opens
3. 4.0 Cellars Relaunches as Texas Wine Collective
4. Houston Rodeo Uncorked Wine Competition Results
5. San Francisco International Wine Competition Results
6. Wine Industry Advisor: Seasoned Winemaker Brings Expertise to a New Wine Incubator at Kerrville Hills Winery
7. Texas Monthly: 12 Texas Wines for the Holiday Season
8. Fredericksburg Standard Radio-Post 2020 Reader’s Choice Awards

Top Texas News Stories of 2020

1. Texas Wineries connect with customers via virtual tasting events.
2. Increased direct-to-consumer shipping and curbside pickups
3. Special release wine benefits restaurant workers
4. Formation of a new Texas Winery PAC: Save Texas Wineries
5. Travel to Texas wineries is strong, particularly in the Texas Hill Country
6. 2020 Vintage is Light in Texas High Plains Due to Late 2019 Freeze. Big focus on Texas Hill Country fruit
7. Texas wineries appear frequently in national news stories. State media also covers Texas wineries more than in past years.
8. New wines and wine brands hit the market
9. New wineries open
10. New tasting rooms open
11. New vineyard acreage planted
12. New winemakers for several wineries
13. Jason Hisaw named Texas Wine Ambassador
14. New wine bars focusing on Texas wine
15. New building projects for several wineries
16. State Fair of Texas Blue Ribbon Selections
17. New book by Jessica Dupuy focuses on wines of Texas, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico: Wines of Southwest USA
18. Best Collaboration: Texas Fine Wine and Texas Pecan Board
19. New Texas wine magazine by Cross Timbers Wine Trail. Listen to Chuck Tordiglione talk about the magazine in a previous episode
20. New Texas wine trail: Sam Houston Wine Trail
21. Wine Enthusiast: Chris Brundrett Named to 40 Under 40 List
22. William Chris Vineyards and Lost Draw Cellars Merge
23. Texas continues to produce exceptionally good wine!

Interview with Chris Brundrett and Andrew Sides of William Chris Wine Company
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www.lostdrawcellars
www.thegrowerproject.com
www.yeswecanwine.com

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Chris: @ighyetx
Andrew: @mr_drewbaby

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Episode Summary:

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Texas Wine In the News

1. Patrick Whitehead Named Wine Industry Leader of 2020 by Wine Business Monthly
2. Kalasi Cellars Press from Dallas Morning News “Texas Grape Growers wiwth Dallas Roots Open Fredericksburg Winery”
3. Slate Mill Wine Collective and Couple in the Kitchen Charity Wines
4. Michael McClendon Named Rising Black Voice in Wine by Wine & Spirits Magazine
5. Forbes.com article by Michelle Williams “Around the World with Texas White Wine”
6. State Fair of Texas Blue Ribbon Wine Selections / Link to purchase
7. Shelly’s Texas Wine Lover article “The State Fair of Texas Offers a Case of Blue Ribbon Texas Wine: Order Now and Create a DIY Wine Garden at Home”
8. Sorry, the “Mourvedre on the Move” article requires a subscription to Wine Enthusiast.

October is Texas Wine Month!
History:
Austin Chronicle 10/2006 “Taking A Look at Texas Wine Month”
Austin Chronicle 10/1999“Uncorking Texas” 

High Plains Journal 2002 “October is Texas Wine Month”

Fun Things to Do This Month:
1. Texas Hill Country Wineries Passport Event in the Hill Country
2. North Texas Wine Country October Wine Trail Event
3. October 21: A Toast to Texas Pecans: A Virtual Texas Pecan and Wine Tasting
4. Wine on the Dime’s YouTube Playlist of Texas Winery Visits
5. Franklin Vines mentioned Cellar Rat Tours
6. October 15: Wine & Food Foundation of Texas Event with Denise Clarke: Celebrate Texas Wine Month, Y’all!
7. Borat 2 movie trailer with cameo appearance by Sid Miller
8. October 28 & 29: Lone Star International Wine Competition Viewing
9. October 14 & 21: State Fair Blue Ribbon Virtual Tastings. Sign up at bottom of this webpage
10. October 17: Heroic Hye Wine Hunt
11. Multiple dates: Spooky Cellar Tours at Messina Hof in Bryan
12. October 30: Date Night Murder Mystery Dinner at Rising Sun Vineyard in McDade
13. October 31: Fall Feast Vintner’s Dinner @ Pedernales Cellars
14. October 31: Young Frankenstein Movie Screening at Torr Na Lochs in Burnet
15. William Chris Vineyards Artist Blend Call for Submissions
16. Ongoing: Wine Dinners & Tastings at Bryan’s on 290 in Johnson City
17. Multiple dates: Jessica Dupuy’s Instagram Live talks to celebrate her new book “The Wines of Southwest USA”
17. Don’t forget the hashtag #TexasWineMonth!!

What I’m Drinking

2019 Cheramie Wine Riesling
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Find out more about where Riesling ranks among Texas white wines in this article I wrote for Texas Wine Lover.

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