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Wine and Food Pairing Session Showcases Easy Tips

August 24, 2014 – 7:15 am

While visiting Messina Hof Winery & Resort in Bryan, Texas, we attended a wine and food pairing class presented by Melba Allen-Buillard and Karen Bonarrigo. Karen pointed out that there are no perfect rules for pairing wine and food. The old suggestion of matching red wine with red meats and white wine with white meats […]

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Pre-Harvest Instruction Session at Messina Hoff

August 23, 2014 – 5:32 pm

Each year at Messina Hof Winery & Resort in Bryan, Texas near Texas A & M, the winery offers the opportunity for wine lovers to engage in a harvest of the grapes. This morning after breakfast participants went to the event room located over the Messina Hof’s Vintage House Restaurant to receive instructions on how to harvest grapes.

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Motivation to Harvest

August 23, 2014 – 10:23 am

What would motivate over 100 people to go to a winery/vineyard and harvest grapes? Messina Hof Winery and Resort in Bryan, Texas is holding it 37th annual harvest festival. For the past few weekends, people have come to the winery and headed out to the vineyard to harvest grapes. Why would people do that? Elizabeth […]

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IWINETC Media FAM Reunion

August 22, 2014 – 7:29 am

Thousands of miles from Tbilisi, Georgia, the site of the 2014 International Wine Tourism Conference, several members of the Media FAM group are having a reunion under the hot Texas sun. We are meeting at fellow IWINETC presenters’ wine estate Messina Hof in Bryan, Texas. Paul and Merrill Bonarrigo are hosting the reunion. Kathy and […]

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Upcoming Wine Experiences

August 27, 2012 – 12:41 pm

A wonderful experience is important when enjoying a wine. Discover these upcoming wine experiences.

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Celebrate Father’s Day Weekend at Messina Hof Winery & Resort

June 11, 2012 – 12:14 pm

Messina Hof Winery & Resort in Texas is providing several ways to celebrate Father’s Day.

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Wine Tasting Thousands of Miles Apart

April 18, 2012 – 7:37 am

A group of writers used Twitter to renew our friendships and taste wines together. This was our first tasting together since February 4th in Napoli, Italy. This time we tasted four Messina Hof wines. The day also reminded Kathy and me about our first Drink Local Wine Conference that was held in Texas and featured […]

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IWINETC Blogger/Media FAM Wine Tasting

April 13, 2012 – 5:54 am

When you spend a couple weeks with a group on tour you begin to establish bonds. In January and February of this year we went on a blogger/media FAM tour of wineries in Umbria and Campania Italy. The trip also included the International Wine Tourism Conference in Perugia. We arrived in Italy a few days […]

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FAM Trips

January 3, 2012 – 9:01 am

FAM is short for familiarization. A FAM trip is designed by a sponsor to provide experiences for the participants. If the participants are bloggers and media, they will write or broadcast about these experiences. Since 2008 we have attended both group and individual FAM trips designed for bloggers and media. It is interesting to note […]

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Messina Hof Offers more than a Tasting Room Experience

August 15, 2011 – 10:36 am

Messina Hof Winery and Resort in Bryan, Texas could easily be the “poster child” for the agri-tourism movement. Visitors can certain take advantage of what Messina Hof has to offer beyond the tasting room. A bistro is adjacent to the tasting area and a restaurant is located in the building to the right of the […]

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