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October celebrated as Texas Wine Month

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The state of Texas has designated October as TEXAS WINE MONTH. Lots of celebrations throughout the month will celebrate Texas wine.

The state of Texas has designated October as TEXAS WINE MONTH. Lots of celebrations throughout the month will celebrate Texas wine. For more information on these events, see UPCOMING EVENTS later in this article.

Texas is fast becoming recognized as a state which produces quality wines. Internationally acclaimed wine book author, George Taber, told a capacity crowd at the kick-off gala for the “Culture of Wine” at the George Bush Library at Texas A&M University that “Texas can grow grapes and produce wines at the same quality levels as California during the 1970s when California beat out the French in the famous tasting of 1976.”

Last Saturday’s Historic Montgomery Wine Festival show-cased 20 Texas wineries with numerous accolades provided by patrons for the quality wines served at this event. Whether you like a sweet wine (Bernhardt Schrock – a German-style Riesling) or a big classic wine (Sunset Cabernet Sauvignon), the variety in Texas wines is there. When you go to a Texas restaurant, ask for a Texas wine. If they do not serve Texas wines, ask the manager why a Texas wine is not served in a Texas restaurant. Don’t forget that local foods pair best with local wines. When you go to your favorite wine shop, ask for a Texas wine. If they do not sell Texas wines, ask them why a Texas wine shop does not sell Texas wines. Texans should be proud of their Texas wines. We should demand our Texas stores sell Texas wines!

Upcoming Wine Events


The state of Texas (www.gotexan.org) kicked off Texas Wine Month early with a huge party last Friday at the State Fair of Texas. Texas wines will be featured at the State Fair of Texas Wine Garden until Oct. 18 in Dallas. Lots of GO TEXAN wine events are highlighted during October and include:

Oct. 2 – Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail Vintner’s Dinner at Messina Hof Winery Restaurant in Bryan. For more information, call (800) 736-9463 ext 234.

October weekends – Visit the wineries in Texas’ nine organized wine Trails, (www.gotexanwine.org/texaswinetrails) including the fifteen wineries in Texas’ newest wine trail, Texas Piney Woods Experience (www.texaspineywoodsexperience.org/wineries)

Oct. 2–4 – Fifth Annual Texas Fall Fest and Texas Wine Auction at Horseshoe Bay. For more information, go to www.texasfallfest.com.

Oct. 3 – Formal Grand Opening for Retreat Hill east of Navasota. For more information, go to www.retreathill.com.

Oct. 3-4 – Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail Fall Harvest, featuring Messina Hof Winery, Pleasant Hill Winery, Windy Winery, Cork This! Winery, Retreat Hill Winery, and Bernhardt Winery. Check out their week-end concerts and events. For more information on this local wine trail and the Fall Harvest, go to www.texasbluebonnetwinetrail.com

Oct. 9-10 – 23rd Annual Gruene Music and Wine Festival. For more information, go to www.gruenemusicandwinefest.org.

Oct. 9-11 – 20th Annual Conroe Catfish Festival featuring “Texas Wine and Food Street” (www.conroecajuncatfishfestival.com)

Oct. 10 and 11 – Bayou City Art Festival featuring a Texas-sized wine expo.

Oct. 14 - Wine, Women, Botox and Chocolate at CORK THIS! Winery in Montgomery. Please call (936)597-4030 for reservations.

Oct. 15 – Katy Wine Fest Charity Event 2009 hosted by the Rotary Club of Katy Sunrise (www.katysunriserotary.com)

Oct. 16 — GO TEXAN Food and Wine Dinner at the Whole Food Market Culinary Center in Austin. For more information, call (512) 542-2340.

Oct. 16-17– Texas Mushroom Festival in Madisonville featuring lots of Texas wines and foods. (www.texasmushroomfestival.com)

Oct. 17 – South Shore Dockside Food and Wine Festival on Clear Lake (www.southshorefestival.org)

Oct. 24 – Zest in the West Festival benefitting the West Houston Chamber of Commerce.

 

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