Download or read book Top Texas Wineries written by Andrew Chalk and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-20 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Hill Country Wineries written by Russell D. Kane and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2015-01-19 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas Hill Country wineries have roots as old as any around. Texas grapes grow in soils made from ancient sea deposits, similar to the grape-growing regions of Europe. Texas wine culture arrived in the 1600s with Spanish missionaries who settled and planted vineyards in El Paso del Norte. The 1800s brought German and Italian immigrant farmers to Texas; they considered wine a staple of everyday life. In what is now America's No. 5 wine-producing state, the Texas Hill Country was named by Wine Enthusiast magazine to its 2014 list of best international wine destinations. It may surprise some, but not the wine aficionados who have visited the Texas Hill Country's 50 or more wineries, that wine-and-culinary tourism is currently the Texas Hill Country's fastest growing sector. This book is your guide to the Texas Hill Country winery experience. It is time to sip and savor Texas for yourself.
Download or read book Texas Hill Country Cuisine written by Ross Burtwell and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making its debut in March 2014 is the premier book on Texas Hill Country Cuisine. Cabernet Grill's owner/chef Ross Burtwell's biggest source of pride is in the partnerships the Cabernet Grill has forged with local farmers, vintners and entrepreneurs. This allows the restaurant to offer guests outstanding Texas food and wine. This book is the "take home" version of the restaurant experience and encapsulates everything the Cabernet Grill has come to stand for. Spectacular cuisine. Texas wine. Unforgettable flavors. -- Author's website.
Download or read book Under the Texan Sun written by Rhonda Cloos and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004-12-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful book Rhonda Cloos explores connections between the wine, food, and people of the Lone Star state. With recipes from wineries, Texas chefs, plus pairing guides, we get a lesson on what to serve with Texas wines.
Download or read book Touring Texas Wineries written by Tom M. Ciesla and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-05-06 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After a twenty-year haul traveling throughout the state's wine businesses, the result was this travel and reference guide for the avid wine connoisseur. The book breaks up each of Texas's 38 wineries into separate scenic drives, with suggestions on food/hotel accommodations and various other interesting pit stops along the way. The Houston Chronicle acclaims, "Here's a book that's been needed for some time: a book on Texas wines that also has 'trails' for travelers, plus recipes to go with the wines. This is a full-service book, not just another listing of wineries."
Download or read book Family Traditions Romance the Messina Hof Story written by Paul Bonarrigo and published by . This book was released on 2020-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo were pioneers in the Texas wine industry. They founded Messina Hof which reflected their union of love as well as the origins of their heritages from Messina, Sicily and Hof, Germany. This book shares their amazing Texas wine journey, reveals their marketing strategies and the elements that have made Messina Hof so successful. It provides insights into their business development and how they were successful in keeping their love story so vibrant. This is the perfect book for those in a family business. There are many lessons learned and shared. This book is inspirational and it traces a history of Texas from its inception as a Pet Rock Industry to its modern day world class status.
Download or read book Grape Man of Texas written by Roy Renfro and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grape Man of Texas is the first biography of Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), the internationally recognized horticulturist who developed over 300 new varieties of grapes, some of which are still grown today on almost every continent. He is perhaps best known for his work in fighting the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century, which nearly destroyed the world's vineyards. His solution—grafting vinifera onto certain resistant native rootstocks from Texas—earned him the Chevalier du Merite Agricole in the French Legion of Honor and numerous accolades. This second edition introduces new insights into the phylloxera period, Munson's many papers and publications, and his far-sighted grasp of the needs of twentieth century agriculture and transportation. It details the continuing influence of both his research and his hybrid grapes on modern viticulture and new varieties of vitis that have been bred from them around the world.
Download or read book Wine Dogs California written by Giant Dog Pty, Limited and published by . This book was released on 2014-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Wine Pioneers written by Gretchen Glasscock and published by Advancing Texas Wine. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years preceding the seventies, America began to awaken to locally sourced food and wine; a key turning point was The Judgement of Paris in 1976, a moment that rocked the world of wine and set it on a different course. French judges, in a blind tasting, judged two California wines superior to their French counterparts. Attitudes toward wine began to shift and adventurous people in various parts of the United States began to feel empowered to explore wine-making conditions in their own regions. As part of this cultural movement, Gretchen Glasscock, returning from the East with a degree from Columbia University and a penchant for research, upended a Texas A&M Study asserting that all Texas was a hot and humid climate suitable for growing only jug wines. She identified the region around Blue Mountain in Fort Davis as cool and crisp, like Napa or parts of France. Before planting her vineyard, Glasscock brought in renowned viticultural and enology experts to guide her in developing this new Texas agribusiness. Subsequent Judgement of Paris moments have now taken place putting premiumTexas wines at the center of a new, more diverse wine universe. This book provides new details recorded by a Texas wine pioneer, advocate, activist and entrepreneur who lived it. Her seminal research and hard fought wine legislation laid the foundation, enabling the development of a multibillion-dollar Texas wine industry.This is a tale of epic battles and larger-than-life personalities, including iconic global winemakers, titans of the wine industry, newcomers who wanted to create this groundbreaking industry and Texas legislators who either caved or fiercely fought the well-financed liquor lobby that had one goal: to kill change.It explores the future of the Texas wine industry, particularly in this present moment of a pandemic that has forced wine-tasting rooms and wine festivals to shut down. Glasscock's solution is to establish an online wine sales platform for all Texas wineries to be able to market their wine online and deliver it to a wine lover's door, in a way that will create a new prosperity for the Texas wine industry.
Download or read book So You Think You Know Texas Wines 2019 Edition written by Marques Vickers and published by Marquis Publishing. This book was released on 2019-02-25 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “So You Think You Know Texas Wines” is designed to simplify your understanding by identifying growing trends, grape descriptions, and future direction of the Texas wine industry. This book concisely profiles each of the state’s leading growing regions and prominent grapes based on the most recent available harvest data from 2017. The edition also includes comparison with the California, Washington and Oregon wine regions. The 2019 edition is ideal for wine collectors, winemakers and anyone who appreciates a Texan grown vintage. The following facts are from hundreds of little known essentials included in the book: 1. Texas harvested 11.7 thousand tons during the 2017 harvest. California harvested over 4 million tons and Washington 227 thousand tons during the 2017 harvest. Oregon harvested 79.8 thousand tons during the 2016 harvest. 2. Texas’ wine grape harvest is 14.7% of Oregon’s, 5.2% of Washington’s and .03% of California’s annual harvest. Washington’s harvest is only 5.6% and Oregon’s 2% of California’s overall production. Oregon’s production is 35.1% of Washington’s. 3. California has 3,670+, Washington 940+, Oregon 725+, and Texas approximately 200+ wineries. California has seventeen, Washington fourteen, while Oregon and Texas have designated five growing regions. 4. Texas has eight designated AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) including Bell Mountain, Escondido Valley, Fredericksburg, Mesilla, Texas Davis Mountains, Texas High Plains, Texas Hill Country and Texoma. 5. Cabernet Sauvignon is Texas’ most popular but only fourteenth highest priced wine grape. It is California’s second most popular and second highest priced red wine grape. It is Washington’s most popular and sixth highest priced and Oregon’s sixth most popular and highest priced wine grape. 6. Tempranillo is Texas’ second most popular and seventh highest priced wine grape averaging $1730 per ton. It is California’s thirteenth and Oregon’s fourth most popular red wine grape. 7. The High Plains and Panhandle growing region is the largest Texas production center harvesting 67% of the state’s grapes. 8. During 2017, Texas’ state total production ratio was 67% red wine grapes and 33% white wine grapes. Total Bearable acreage is 70% red wine and 30% white wine grapes. 9. Between 2015 and 2017, production of the Muscat Canelli grape dropped 52.2% and 62% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region. The grape in 2015 was Texas’ largest produced varietal. 10. Based on 2017 non-bearing acreage figures, the six most likely statewide grapes to increase in production are Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Blanc du Bois, Black Spanish (Lenoir), Merlot and Mourvèdre. Non-bearing acreage represents planted vineyards whose young grapes have not been included into production statistics. They may also reflect damaged and destroyed vineyards that did not add to the production totals. 11. Production of Mourvèdre jumped 445% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region between 2015 and 2017 making it the second largest grape tied with Merlot. The grape is now the fourth largest produced in the state. 12. Viognier dropped from the second largest production grape in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region during 2015 to fourth in the region based on a production decrease of 40.3%. 13. Merlot’s reduced production of 45.5% between 2015 and 2017 in the Hill County region dropped it from the largest produced grape to third place. 14. The Hill Country growing region, the state’s second largest, suffered a 37.1% decline in production between 2015 and 2017. The decline was attributed to a severe rainy season culminating in extensive vine destroying rot and mildew. 15. Blanc du Bois and Black Spanish grapes are the dominant grapes produced in the Southeast Texas and Gulf Coast growing region comprising 74.7% of production. Combined in 2017, they represent 54.8% of statewide production in those grapes.
Download or read book The Wines of Southwest U S A written by Jessica Dupuy and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-24 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When most people think of the American Southwest they think of arid, windswept terrain, vast ranches framed by barbed-wire fences and scattered with grazing cattle, terraced rock formations and jagged mountain peaks towering in an array of rich, earthen reds and browns against the backdrop of radiant blue skies, and sunsets that fade these vibrant colors into a haze of pastel pinks, oranges, and purples. It's the birthplace of the American frontier, a playground for outdoor adventurers, and the inspiration for countless watercolor canvases and vivid oil-painted landscapes. Indeed, this romantic imagery has for centuries encouraged myriad settlers to migrate to the region. But few would have ever associated this rich and exciting region with wine. Yet it was in this part of the country that the first Vitis vinifera vines in the United States are said to have been planted. As early as 1598, vines were planted by Spanish Franciscan monks in New Mexico and were also planted in west Texas, all the way west to California, during the seventeenth century. However, it really wasn't until the 1970s that the modern wine industry took off. By and large it was Texas that led the pack in terms of overall growth in vineyard plantings and production in the decades that followed. But other states within the region - New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado - have also evolved, with compelling stories and promising wine industries of their own. This book is in four parts, one for each state. Texas serves as the cornerstone for this region with New Mexico, Arizona, and Colorado all rapidly growing in importance. For each state Dupuy addresses eight key topics to cover the landscape of the wine industry: history, regions, climate, challenges, grapes, leading producers, leading grape growers, and the future. In addition, each state's chapters include vignettes highlighting interesting pieces of history and culture, or profiling significant wine industry personalities.
Download or read book The Wine Roads of Texas written by Wes Marshall and published by Maverick Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideal guide for the Texas wine connoisseur
Download or read book The Wines of Texas written by Sarah Jane English and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1995 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wineslinger Chronicles written by R. D. Kane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A chronicle of Texas's emergence as a wine-producing region. Relates the stories of winegrowers, past and present, who have contributed to Texas wine culture"--Provided by publisher.
Download or read book So You Think You Know Texas Wines 2019 Edition An Intimate Inside Profile of Texas Grown Wines written by and published by So You Think You Know Texas Wi. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "So You Think You Know Texas Wines" is designed to simplify your understanding by identifying growing trends, grape descriptions, and future direction of the Texas wine industry. This book concisely profiles each of the state's leading growing regions and prominent grapes based on the most recent available harvest data from 2017. The edition also includes comparison with the California, Washington and Oregon wine regions. The 2019 edition is ideal for wine collectors, winemakers and anyone who appreciates a Texan grown vintage. The following facts are from hundreds of little known essentials included in the book:1. Texas harvested 11.7 thousand tons during the 2017 harvest. California harvested over 4 million tons and Washington 227 thousand tons during the 2017 harvest. Oregon harvested 79.8 thousand tons during the 2016 harvest.2. Texas' wine grape harvest is 14.7% of Oregon's, 5.2% of Washington's and .03% of California's annual harvest. Washington's harvest is only 5.6% and Oregon's 2% of California's overall production. Oregon's production is 35.1% of Washington's.3. California has 3,670+, Washington 940+, Oregon 725+, and Texas approximately 200+ wineries. California has seventeen, Washington fourteen, while Oregon and Texas have designated five growing regions.4. Texas has eight designated AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) including Bell Mountain, Escondido Valley, Fredericksburg, Mesilla, Texas Davis Mountains, Texas High Plains, Texas Hill Country and Texoma.5. Cabernet Sauvignon is Texas' most popular but only fourteenth highest priced wine grape. It is California's second most popular and second highest priced red wine grape. It is Washington's most popular and sixth highest priced and Oregon's sixth most popular and highest priced wine grape.6. Tempranillo is Texas' second most popular and seventh highest priced wine grape averaging $1730 per ton. It is California's thirteenth and Oregon's fourth most popular red wine grape.7. The High Plains and Panhandle growing region is the largest Texas production center harvesting 67% of the state's grapes.8. During 2017, Texas' state total production ratio was 67% red wine grapes and 33% white wine grapes. Total Bearable acreage is 70% red wine and 30% white wine grapes.9. Between 2015 and 2017, production of the Muscat Canelli grape dropped 52.2% and 62% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region. The grape in 2015 was Texas' largest produced varietal.10. Based on 2017 non-bearing acreage figures, the six most likely statewide grapes to increase in production are Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Blanc du Bois, Black Spanish (Lenoir), Merlot and Mourvèdre. Non-bearing acreage represents planted vineyards whose young grapes have not been included into production statistics. They may also reflect damaged and destroyed vineyards that did not add to the production totals.11. Production of Mourvèdre jumped 445% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region between 2015 and 2017 making it the second largest grape tied with Merlot. The grape is now the fourth largest produced in the state.12. Viognier dropped from the second largest production grape in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region during 2015 to fourth in the region based on a production decrease of 40.3%.13. Merlot's reduced production of 45.5% between 2015 and 2017 in the Hill County region dropped it from the largest produced grape to third place.14. The Hill Country growing region, the state's second largest, suffered a 37.1% decline in production between 2015 and 2017. The decline was attributed to a severe rainy season culminating in extensive vine destroying rot and mildew.15. Blanc du Bois and Black Spanish grapes are the dominant grapes produced in the Southeast Texas and Gulf Coast growing region comprising 74.7% of production. Combined in 2017, they represent 54.8% of statewide production in those grapes.
Download or read book Texas Wineries written by and published by . This book was released on 2006-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete, pocket-sized guide to Texas' 78 wineries, covering every region of the state with a description of each establishment's vintages, top recent awards, tastings, tours, special events, driving directions, visitors amenities and hours. In addition, the winemakers have contributed their most delectable recipes. The comb binding allows the book to be laid flat while following recipes. And the small size (4.25 X 5.5-inches) makes it a great stocking stuffer or house gift.
Download or read book Franklin Barbecue written by Aaron Franklin and published by Ten Speed Press. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A complete meat and brisket-cooking education from the country's most celebrated pitmaster and owner of the wildly popular Austin restaurant Franklin Barbecue. When Aaron Franklin and his wife, Stacy, opened up a small barbecue trailer on the side of an Austin, Texas, interstate in 2009, they had no idea what they’d gotten themselves into. Today, Franklin Barbecue has grown into the most popular, critically lauded, and obsessed-over barbecue joint in the country (if not the world)—and Franklin is the winner of every major barbecue award there is. In this much-anticipated debut, Franklin and coauthor Jordan Mackay unlock the secrets behind truly great barbecue, and share years’ worth of hard-won knowledge. Franklin Barbecue is a definitive resource for the backyard pitmaster, with chapters dedicated to building or customizing your own smoker; finding and curing the right wood; creating and tending perfect fires; sourcing top-quality meat; and of course, cooking mind-blowing, ridiculously delicious barbecue, better than you ever thought possible.
