From the Mediterranean Shores to Mason County Texas:
Act II – Seeing, Tasting and Praying for Terroir
About 4 pm in the afternoon, my wife and I departed our Hill Country cottage near Fredericksburg, Texas and started the hour and a half drive to Mason for the much anticipated Act II dinner and tasting at Sandstone Cellars. As I learned in the process, this drive was likely the best way to see the “big picture” view of what Don Pullum had discussed in his description of Mason County terroir (See http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=612).
We headed west on Route 290 from Fredericksburg and, within minutes, the limestone road cuts at the eroded edge of the Edwards Plateau started to fall away. The countryside morphed into outcroppings of even more ancient, burnt-orange “Hickory” sandstone with a magnificent view of the Llano Basin open before me. The meeting of water on rock in Mason County is there, available to the beholder: A visible slice of geological time over 500 million years ago that produced a very particular ‘terres de la vigne’.
More at: http://vintagetexas.com/blog/?p=622
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