First Wine Grape Press of the Year 2015
First grape press of year at Bingham Family Vineyards in 2015.
First grape press of year at Bingham Family Vineyards in 2015.
We now have wine bottled!
AND we are having a sneak preview of things to come at our Grapevine tasting room on Saturday, April 11, 2015. Come on out to Grapevine for the Grapevine Blessing of the Vines
Experimenting with frost guard machines and delayed pruning, they aim to protect early-blooming Viognier vines from late spring freezes.
Duchman Trebbiano made with Bingham Family Vineyards grapes. Read more information about the wine here in the Texas Monthly article written by Jessica Dupuy or on the Duchman Family Winery web site.
Yes, I said hail, not freeze. We seem to be so preoccupied with late spring freezes that we forget about the other hazards of growing grapes on the High Plains. Hail being one of them. During the last rain which we had on Sunday morning on the 25th, we had hail some hail. Cliff went…
Tractor stuck in the mud. Generations learning from each other.
Here is a #ThrowbackThursday from 2013 when Jessica Dupuy wrote an article about our family in 2013 for Edible Austin.
Harvesting grapes on the High Plains of Texas at Bingham Family Vineyards in 2012.
#ThrowBackThursday Bingham Family Vineyards was growing Albarino back in 2012 #TBT
Harvest has started, but not all of the grapes are ready yet. We are now finished with around 20% of harvest for this year. Usually the white grapes are ready before the reds. But we want to wait till the sugar content or brix measurement is just right, so that the grapes will make great Texas wine.