Texas Wine Month 2020 | @texaswinepod Shelly Wilfong & Ron Martin | ep 25 Kiepersol Texas Podcast

Kiepersol Texas Podcast

October is Texas state Wine Month!

Shelly Wilfong - @texaswinepod joins us to talk about Texas wine, her podcast, and using quarantine to help educate people to understand the issues facing the Texas wine industry! You can also find some of the stories that Shelly has written on the Texas Wine Lover website txwinelover.com ! You can listen to her podcast "This Texas Wine" on all of the major podcast platforms.

Shelly's recommendations:

1) Texas has a lot of unique varietals of grapes growing, so visit a Texas Winery and let them guide you to find something you like in their tasting room.

2) Texas Rosé is a great goto wine with a wide range of styles, from dry to sweet options.

Shelly is dying to try the Kiepersol Fizzy Vit - canned wine in the Dallas area. We are working on getting our cans in the stores around the DFW area. The closest location to Dallas that has our product is Brookshire's Grocery Company in Forney, Tx. ** CORRECTION: There is no longer a Brookshire's in Rockwall. If you're willing to help get our wines, especially Fizzy Vit in your local shop, you can request they carry Kiepersol Wines through our distributor Southern Glaziers.

With the shutdowns we didn't have an opportunity to release more podcasts earlier this year, so we take time to revisit with Ron Martin and look at footage from an East Texas winery tour we took in late 2019 and early 2020.

Ron also gives some tips on how to celebrate Texas Wine Month:

1) Go buy good Texas Wine. In retail or directly from the winery

2) Ask your favorite Texas restaurants if they have Texas Wines. If they don't encourage them to carry them!

3) Use a website or app to find some amazing Texas Vineyards & Wineries and go visit them! txwinelover.com is Ron's goto. 4) If you see if the bottle you're drinking is really a Texas wine

- If it says "For Sale in Texas" it's not made in Texas

- If it says "American Appellation" it's probably not a Texas wine

- If it says "Texas High Plains", "Texas Estate" or "Texas Wine" it is a Texas Wine

Ron and Michael visited 3 East Texas Wineries:

- Pella Legna - Tyler, Tx - Briar Creek Vineyards

- Whitehouse, Tx - 3 P's in a Vine - Athens, Tx

For those listening you can watch the short video from this podcast here: https://youtu.be/2Nvke_KQLP0

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