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I told Neal Newsom when I visited him and Janice earlier this year that if Nowhere had a middle, where they live in West Texas would be it. To reach Newsom Vineyards outside Plains, I had to fly in to Lubbock, then drive across 60 miles of West Texas flatland: red soil, tumbleweeds, oil derricks, fallow cotton fields. Along with Neal's mother, Neal and Janice grow some of the best grapes in Texas and earn vineyard designation on many wines. (They don't make wine; they just grow grapes.) Not that it hasn't come at a cost: Only after I had completed the story - which starts out with a devastating hail storm - did I learn from Fredericksburg Winery that when Neal's dad died in 2000, it was in a harvesting accident. Dues have been paid, but the wine gods also have smiled on this small-town family, which is helping to shape Texas' nascent wine industry. Check out the story here.
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Posted by Kim Pierce @ 2:02 PM Wed, May 07, 2008
Maria writes to add that San MartinoWinery & Vineayrds' Texano, made from at least 50 percent Newsom grapes, is a blend of cabernet sauvignon and sangiovese. And Newsom grapes make up 80 percetn of their wine called The Concept.