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Category: Blog

  • Living and Loving Wine, Valentines’

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    By Kidron Vestal, Marketing & PR Manager Valentine’s Day is love’s coming of age, just like harvest day is for a vineyard. There are cycles in life; seasons of resting, loving, and living…. Wine is alive too. It’s quite easy to think of February as a month when love and red and chocolate are all…

  • New Year’s Eve–The Meaning of the Toast

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    Civilizations around the globe assemble every 365 days to lock arms, lips and wishes–and to hope that their toast rests not on faint ears. For to salute the eve and the coming dawn is richness, almost a ceremonial necessity. The only fitting symbol to both conclude and embrace a year is a bubbly token held…

  • BBQ in Texas versus Republic of Georgia

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    By Paul V Bonarrigo, Co-Founder Wine brings people together just as food brings people together.  BBQ in the Republic of Georgia and at Messina Hof in Texas have a common link.  Both are cooked with grapevine wood.  Grapevine wood burns fast and creates wonderful hot coals that are fantastic for grilling and provide a great…

  • People to Watch: Tom & Laura Plant

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    What could be more appropriate in today’s digital social media world than a blogging couple who met on Match.com? Tom and Laura Plant met in 2008 and married on July 4, 2009, “Independence from Singlehood day.” But they were not always bloggers. Tom’s background was in radio as a disc jockey that did news, sports…

  • IWINETC: Saperavi and Lenoir

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    by Paul V Bonarrigo, Co-Founder of Messina Hof Years ago a NASA scientist spoke to the Texas grape industry about how thousands of years ago the land we call Texas was once located near the country of Georgia prior to the earth’s plates separating into the existing continents. Texas is the home of the grape…