I had dinner in a Salisbury, Maryland restaurant where I asked for a local wine. There is a winery just a few miles from the restaurant. The waiter returned with a list of California wines. Three thousand miles isn’t exactly local. One of the challenges of the drink local wine movement is getting local wines […]

Texas has 177 wineries and is the fifth largest wine producing state in the country. As the number of wineries steadily grows, so do the acres of vineyards. Although the modern wine industry started in the early 1970’s, a tremendous growth in the Texas wine industry has occurred during the last decade. Some of the […]

Recently I was told that there are two thousand decisions that have been made before someone drinks the wine from a bottle. That’s a lot of decisions. When I mentioned this to winemakers on a recent trip to wineries in Wisconsin, I received knowing nods as well is questionable looks. Decisions have to be made […]