Texas Wine Guide (2020-2021)
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About this ebook
“Texas Wine Guide” is designed to simplify your understanding by identifying growing trends, grape descriptions, and future direction of the Texas wine industry. This book concisely profiles each of the state’s leading growing regions and prominent grapes based on the most recent available harvest data from 2019. The edition also includes comparison with the California, Washington and Oregon wine regions.
The 2020-2021 edition is ideal for wine collectors, winemakers and anyone who appreciates a Texan grown vintage. The following facts are from hundreds of little known essentials included in the book:
1. Texas harvested 14.2 thousand tons during the 2019 harvest. California harvested 4.28 million tons and Washington 261 thousand tons during the 2018 harvest. Oregon harvested 91.3 thousand tons during 2017.
2. Texas’ wine grape harvest is 15.5% of Oregon’s, 5.4% of Washington’s and .03% of California’s annual harvest. Washington’s harvest is only 6% and Oregon’s 2.1% of California’s overall production. Oregon’s production is 35% of Washington’s.
3. California has 3,670+, Washington 940+, Oregon 725+, and Texas approximately 200+ wineries. California has seventeen, Washington fourteen, while Oregon and Texas have designated five growing regions.
4. Texas has eight designated AVAs (American Viticultural Areas) including Bell Mountain, Escondido Valley, Fredericksburg, Mesilla, Texas Davis Mountains, Texas High Plains, Texas Hill Country and Texoma.
5. Cabernet Sauvignon is Texas’ most popular but only thirtieth highest priced wine grape. It is California’s second most popular and second highest priced red wine grape. It is Washington’s most popular and sixth highest priced and Oregon’s sixth most popular and highest priced wine grape.
6. Tempranillo is Texas’ second most popular and seventh highest priced wine grape averaging $1720 per ton. It is California’s thirteenth and Oregon’s fourth most popular red wine grape.
7. The High Plains and Panhandle growing region is the largest Texas production center harvesting 72.6% of the state’s grapes.
8. During 2019, Texas’ state total production ratio was 71% red wine grapes and 29% white wine grapes. Total Bearable acreage is 73% red wine and 27% white wine grapes.
9. Between 2015 and 2019, production of the Muscat Canelli grape dropped 56.6% in Texas overall and 47.8% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region. The grape in 2015 was Texas’ largest produced varietal.
10. Based on 2019 non-bearing acreage figures, the six most likely statewide grapes to increase in production are Cabernet Sauvignon, Tempranillo, Blanc du Bois, Black Spanish (Lenoir), Merlot and Mourvèdre. Non-bearing acreage represents planted vineyards whose young grapes have not been included into production statistics. They may also reflect damaged and destroyed vineyards that did not add to the production totals.
11. Production of Mourvèdre jumped over 700% in the High Plains and Panhandle growing region between 2015 and 2019 making it the second largest grape. The grape is now the third largest produced in the state.
12. Blanc du Bois and Black Spanish grapes are the dominant grapes produced in the Southeast Texas and Gulf Coast growing region comprising 80.1% of production. Combined in 2019, they represent 63.3% of statewide production in those grapes.
Marques Vickers
Visual Artist, Writer and Photographer Marques Vickers is a California native presently living in the San Francisco Bay Area and Seattle, Washington regions. He was born in 1957 and raised in Vallejo, California. He is a 1979 Business Administration graduate from Azusa Pacific University in the Los Angeles area. Following graduation, he became the Public Relations and ultimately Executive Director of the Burbank Chamber of Commerce between 1979-84. He subsequently became the Vice President of Sales for AsTRA Tours and Travel in Westwood between 1984-86. Following a one-year residence in Dijon, France where he studied at the University of Bourgogne, he began Marquis Enterprises in 1987. His company operations have included sports apparel exporting, travel and tour operations, wine brokering, publishing, rare book and collectibles reselling. He has established numerous e-commerce, barter exchange and art websites including MarquesV.com, ArtsInAmerica.com, InsiderSeriesBooks.com, DiscountVintages.com and WineScalper.com. Between 2005-2009, he relocated to the Languedoc region of southern France. He concentrated on his painting and sculptural work while restoring two 19th century stone village residences. His figurative painting, photography and sculptural works have been sold and exhibited internationally since 1986. He re-established his Pacific Coast residence in 2009 and has focused his creative productivity on writing and photography. His published works span a diverse variety of subjects including true crime, international travel, California wines, architecture, history, Southern France, Pacific Coast attractions, fiction, auctions, fine art marketing, poetry, fiction and photojournalism. He has two daughters, Charline and Caroline who presently reside in Europe.
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Texas Wine Guide (2020-2021) - Marques Vickers
TEXAS WINE GUIDE
Published by Marques Vickers at Smashwords
Copyright 2015-2019 Marques Vickers
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Texas Wine Regions
The Grape Divide: Demystifying the Economics of the Texas Wine Industry
Comparisons Between the Texas, California, Washington and Oregon Wine Regions
Cabernet Sauvignon
Tempranillo
Additional Texas Grown Grapes
Confusing Terminology Imprinted on a Wine Label and Pricing
State Production Summary and Comparisons
About the Author
Texas Wine Regions
Region 2017 Tons 2019 Tons
High Plains & Panhandle 7,817 Tons 10.300 Tons +31.8%
Hill Country 1,321 Tons 1,760 Tons +33.2%
West Texas 1,293 Tons 970 Tons -25%
North Texas 777 Tons 680 Tons -12.5%
SE Texas/Gulf Coast 455 Tons 470 Tons +3.3%
Overall Texas 11,660 Tons 14,180 Tons +21.6%
Region 2017 Bearing Acres 2019 Bearing Acres
High Plains & Panhandle 2,685 Acres 3,000 Acres +11.7%
Hill Country 758 Acres 830 Acres +9.5%
West Texas 395 Acres 390 Acres -1.3%
North Texas 398 Acres 500 Acres +25.6%
SE Texas/Gulf Coast 305 Acres 300 Acres -1.6%
Overall Texas 4,541 Acres 5.020 Acres +11%
High Plains and Panhandle Region
The High Plains and Panhandle region borders Oklahoma to the north, West Texas region to the south, New Mexico to the west and Oklahoma and North Texas region to the east. It is the largest growing region in the state as well as the largest bearing and non-bearing acreage.
During 2015, the Production Value ratio was 50% red wine and 50% white wine grape. This altered to 69% red wine and 31% white wine grape in 2017. Bearing acres shifted from a 59% red wine/41% white wine ratio in 2015 to 71% red wine/29% white wine ration in 2017. This shift was attributable to the dramatic movement away from Muscat Canelli grape production to Bordeaux and Rhone Style wine grapes. During the 2019 harvest, red wine grape production remained at 71% and white wine grape 29%.
In 2015, the region harvested 6,800 tons that constituted 59.6% of the state’s overall production. The region’s 1,650 bearing acres and 560 non-bearing acres constituted respectively 43.4% and 46.7% of the state’s overall acreage in those categories.
The 2017 harvest of 7,817 tons constituted 67% of Texas’ entire wine production, a 15% increase from 2015. The 2,685 bearing and 447 non-bearing acres represented respectively 59% and 41% of the state’s overall acreage in those categories.
The 2019 harvest of 10,300 tons represented 72.6% of Texas’ entire wine production, a 5.6% increase from 2017. The 3,000 bearing and 220 non-bearing acres represented 60% and 27% of the state’s overall acreage in those categories.
Cabernet Sauvignon
The top producing regional grape in the 2015 harvest was Cabernet Sauvignon with 450 tons representing 6% of the regional production total and 49.4% of Texas’ production in that grape. The 200 bearing and 76 non-bearing acres represented 44% and 50% of the state’s figure for that grape category.
During the 2017 harvest, 870 harvested tons represented 11% of the regional production total and 60% of Texas’ production in that grape. This figure represented a 95% increase in production from 2015. The 390 bearing and 77 non-bearing