| Sponsored Links |
www.HoustonOkay.com
Pay less. Not more.
See your ad in this very spot!
Click Here
 Things to Do |  Wineries |
By the first 100 years A.D., wine was being exported from Italy to Spain, Germany, and France. It wasen't long before these countries ended up developing their own vineyards. Over the next few centries France had become the dominant producer of wines on the world market. Monastaries are known to have been reponsible for establishing several of the most sought after wines in the vineyards of France. Exploration and settlement brought wine to Mexico, Argentina, and South Africa in the 1500's and 1600's. Considered to be the father of the California Wine Industry, Jean-Louis Vignes planted the first European wine vines in northern California. He founded the Buena Vista Winery in 1857, which boasts 1,000 acres of vineyards in both Sonoma and Napa counties, and produces over half a million bottles of wine per year!
Made from fermented grape juice, wine is classified into 3 basic types: Natural, Sparkling, & Fortified. Natural wines may be Red, White, & Rose, and be classified in taste as Dry, Medium, or Sweet. Sparkling wines are given a 2nd fermatation in which added yeast eats up the sugar in the wine and produces carbon dioxide to give the wine a carbonated nature, much like soda pop. Tiny bubbles noticed in sparkling wines are from this natural process, while larger bubbles indicate carbon dioxide was added by machine. Fortified wines, such as Port, Sherry, Marsala, Vermouth, Maderia, Muscat, and Sangria, were made to have a longer shelf life. While there are spirits that are made from wine, the fortification process is created by when alcohol is added to the wine, thus killing the yeast before the fermintation process is completed, which leaves residual sugar. The higher levels of alcohol and sweetness help to preserve the wine longer. Wine is usually aged for several years in wood barrels, allowing the wood to influence the characteristics of the wine from taste, color, depth, complexity, and so on.
Pick a City
| Beaumont (1) | Brenham (2) | Conroe (1) | Houston (3) | ||||
| Kingwood (1) | La Grange (1) | La Porte (1) | Navasota (1) | ||||
| Santa Fe (1) |
| Sponsored Links |
Don't see your business here, or know of one not listed here? List it for FREE
D'Vine Winery
Pleasant Hill Winery
Windy Hill Winery
6755 Phelan Blvd, Beaumont, TX 77706 Map
409 861-0400
1441 Salem Rd, Brenham, TX 77833 Map
979 830-8463
4232 Clover Rd, Brenham, TX 77833 Map
979 836-7010
| Sponsored Links |
Taverna Winery & Restaurant
LA Fuente Winery
Salud Winery
Sutter Home Winery
Undiscovered Time - the Winery
Rosemary's Vineyard & Winery
Frascone Winery
Purple Possum Winery
HAAK Vineyards & Winery
12820 Highway 105 W, Conroe, TX 77304 Map
936 588-6464
10606 Hempstead Rd, Houston, TX 77092 Map
713 956-6219
3939 Montrose Blvd, Houston, TX 77006 Map
713 522-8282
1110 Nasa Parkway, Houston, TX 77058 Map
281 333-3530
18321 W Lake Houston Parkway Ste 260, Kingwood, TX 77346 Map
281 913-1853
5521 E State Highway 71, La Grange, TX 78945 Map
979 249-2109
311 Bayside Dr, La Porte, TX 77571 Map
409 252-4506
5492 Rabun Rd, Navasota, TX 77868 Map
936 825-2830
6310 Ave T, Santa Fe, TX 77510 Map
409 925-1401
|
Sponsored Links |
Not finding what you're looking for? Try the search bar!