Texas Winemakers Gather their Pluck

Texas Winemakers Gather their Pluck
….The Race for a Place on Restaurant Wine Lists is On!

Ever go to your favorite restaurant and have a dark, inky East Texas Bordeaux blend with your Steak Au Poivre? How about a well-structured Texas High Plains Tempranillo with your a garlicky ox tail tapa, a fragrant Texas Hill Country Viognier along with a wood-oven roasted rosemary chicken, or a Gulf-Coast Madeira-style wine with your chocolate bread pudding? I reckon that you likely haven’t. Not because you can’t, but frankly, they can be downright hard to find.

Some say that Texas wines are fighting a losing battle to gains slots on restaurant wine lists. However, I think that the quote from fellow Texan, Dan Rather, pretty well sums up the cup’s-half-full mentality of many in the Texas wine industry when he said…..“Put on another pot of coffee, this race isn’t going to be over for a while”. Texas wineries are just starting to get serious in the race for a place on wine lists.

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