Texas Appellation Library

(news items and features of current interest regarding activity within the Texas appellation)

___, "Texas Hill Country: The next Napa?" ( Southern Living: March 16, 2006 )

___, "Salt Lick plans vineyard, hotel" ( Austin Business Journal : April 14, 2006 )

___, "Automated System Predicts Grape Yields " ( USDA - Agricultural Research Service: April 21, 2006 )

___, "Texas winemakers find success in award-winning wine made from UF’s hardy grape" ( University of Florida News: July 12, 2006. )

___, "Can Wine Be Organic?" ( Balanced Living Magazine )

___, "Winemaker blends art, science and agriculture " ( azcentral.com.: 11/09/2006 )

___, "For nation's vintners, days of wine are rosy " ( San Francisco Chronicle: 01/18/2007 )

___, "New Winery Boom Spans North America " ( Wines & Vines: 01/22/2007 )

___, "Late freeze destroys bulk of the state's grape crop" ( Galveston County Daily News : 04/30/2007 )

___, "Winemaking branches across nation " ( UNION-TRIBUNE : 09/17/2007 )

___, "Texas Grants Will Grow Industry" ( Wines & Vines: 09/08/2008 )

___, "Cowboys turn connoisseurs in Texas wine region" ( San Francisco Chronicle: 11/02/2008 )

___, "Texas High Plains wine grape industry taking root" ( Southwest Farm Press: 05/27/2009 )

___, "Viticulture flourishes in Texas" ( The Houston Chronicle: 06/09/2009 )

___, "Texas develops strategy to attract more wine aficionados to state" ( Austin Business Journal: 08/05/2009 )

Heeger, Jack, "U.S.-European agreement will keep wine flowing across the Atlantic" ( Napa Valley Register: March 16, 2006 )

Mariani, John, "Texas Wineries Grow Up, Beat the Heat, Seek Their Own Styles " ( Bloomberg.com: 04/21/2008 )

Meeker, Jason Warren , "Hill Country is largest viticultural area in U.S." ( Austin Business Journal: April 16, 2004 )

(a cumulative and permanent repository of writings which reflect the development of the Texas appellation as a distinct winegrowing region. Submission and selection criteria for placement of material in the Permanent Collection)

Adams, Leon D., THE WINES OF AMERICA, THIRD EDITION" ( McGraw-Hill: 1985 )

Cass, Bruce, et.al., THE OXFORD COMPANION TO THE WINES OF NORTH AMERICA" ( Oxford University Press: 2000 )

Ensrud, Barbara, AMERICAN VINEYARDS" ( Stewart, Tabori & Chang: 1988 )