So what do you know? My Honey gets to be a guest in the GOTEXAN Twitter Tuesday, March 1^st at 7:00 p.m. I know, I know, the people that really know Cliff will say, “But Cliff doesn’t ‘do’ Twitter. He is too busy growing wonderfully delicious wine grapes.”

But “we” do Twitter. Remember I told that I love using the word “we” on the farm. “We” do all kinds of dirty work on the farm. The only thing is that usually I, Betty, am watching or taking pictures while everyone else it getting their hands dirty. I like it that way. So, that is why I usually do the Tweeting.

But Tuesday, Cliff, in all his viticulture wit and wisdom, will be making comments and answering questions. I have to admit though that “I” will be doing most of the typing. So, you can just blame the spelling errors on me.

Everyone will be tweeting about the promising varieties in the Texas High Plains AVA.

If you want to taste and tweet, we invite you to choose one or more of the following wines made from grapes that “we” grew.

Duchman Family Winery Vermentino (Read about it here or buy it here or here.)

Becker Vineyard Viognier (Buy it here or at your local store.)

Landon Winery Tempranillo (Read about it here or buy it here. Here they have a special offer and more information about how they are celebrating the GOTEXAN Twitter Tuesday.

To chat with Cliff, follow him on Twitter @BinghamVineyard and use the hashtag #GOTEXAN.  Also, follow the wineries: @DuchmanWinery, @BeckerVineyards, and @LandonWinery. And of course you should follow @GO_TEXAN

Everyone will also be talking about new varieties to the High Plains such as Vermentino, Dolcetto, Montepulciano, and Aglianico.

If you’re new to Twitter, here’s how you participate:

1. Just sign up for a free Twitter account at www.twitter.com.
   
2. Go to the Tweetchat room set up for Texas Twitter Tuesdays: http://tweetchat.com/room/GOTEXAN. Participants are invited to follow the tweet discussions, add comments, share thoughts, and retweet to their followers
3. You can also use the Twitter tool of your choice like Tweet Deck or another app on your computer or your phone. Just remember that we are using the hashtag #GOTEXAN and search for #GOTEXAN to follow the Twitters from all of those involved.

We’ll get Clint, my son, to tweet some, too: @TexasVineGuy

We’ll be looking for your tweets on Tuesday night.

Blessings,

Betty

Oh, yes, and eating dinner at with Neal & Janice at their Rockn’ N B&B. You can’t be too busy to spend time with friends. Isn’t that just beautiful? Tonight was a wonderful evening there.

But – I was suddenly motivated today when I read about yet another great restaurant that is adding not only Texas wine to their wine list but wine made from grapes from Bingham Family Vineyards. If you live close to Houston, you should check out Dolce Vita Pizzeria Enoteca and have a glass of Duchman Family Winery Trebbiano while you are there.

They serve Italian wines, so the Trebbiano is a natural. And if you don’t live close to Houston you can check out the Duchman Family Winery to order some Trebbiano. Duchman also has our Viognier, Vermentino, and you cannot forget their double gold medal winner at the San Francisco International Wine Competition, 2008 Dolcetto. We really liked growing that Dolcetto grape.

Blessings,

Betty

The dinner was held in a building at the winery that is used to host special wine tastings.

What a beautiful setting.

Beautiful and enchanting…

Good friends were there…

Wonderful food and lots of barrels. Isn’t that just one of the most beautiful backdrops for decorating that you have ever seen! I didn’t even start to count how many barrels of wine are stored there. But I do love walking by and seeing one with “Bingham” written on it.

Back to the food. My mother taught me to not take more food than I can eat, so here was my plate.

Here is My Honey’s plate. His mother taught him the same thing, and he ate everything on his plate. I can vouch for him. It was delicious!

It was so delicious that I went back for seconds. Yum!

We had the pleasant company of Becker people and other grape growers.

Robert spoke to everyone and encouraged us for working together to make really great wine.

Brett agreed.

Then we ended with wonderful pies with Becker port and Clementine. The Clementine has our late harvested Viognier grapes in it

Wonderful and enjoyable evening. Thank you, Robert & Bunny, and the whole crew at Becker!

Blessings,

Betty