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		<title>K Estate Estate Tempranillo, Texas Hill Country 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2026 03:44:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Built-to-please, food-friendly expression of Texas tempranillo, the red grape that has a particularly affinity to Texas terroir. Very accommodating, easy drinker with just enough red-fruit character to be interesting. $51-60 Grapes hand-harvested at 24.2º Brix. Destemmed. Fermented in stainless steel using commercial yeast. Aged 12 months in barrel, none new, 50% French, 50% American. The <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/k-estate-estate-tempranillo-texas-hill-country-2023/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Invention Vineyards LB Red Wine, Fredericksburg, Texas 2021</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Apr 2026 05:24:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lush, plush black grape polished pleasure from Texas. Left Bank Bordeaux—thus the LB on the label—with emphasis on cab, ably abetted by cab franc and malbec. From Texas? Please, forget your stereotype, Texas is a player in the wine world with growers who know how and what to grow and makers who know how to <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/invention-vineyards-lb-red-wine-fredericksburg-texas-2021/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What’s with Texas wine? 6-18-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 20:19:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Vintage and location are keys to understanding wine in Texas, which now produces the fifth most wine in the United States. Texas wine growers must contend with unpredictable and extreme weather events, making each Texas vintage an adventure. Therein lies both the magic and the challenge, because weather and weather events dramatically impact each year’s <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/whats-with-texas-wine-6-18-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Winery wars 5-14-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2025 06:00:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The wine industry faces the first headwinds it has faced in half a century. Inevitably things get snippy in the previously collegial competition among makers. When the rising wine tide raised all boats, generosity and altruism were easy. Comity expected. Neighbor-helping-neighbor commonplace. Now sales are in decline. Competition thins the herd. Makers search for an <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/winery-wars-5-14-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas wine ascendent 3-19-2025</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 06:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Sixty years ago, Texas wine was a curious microdot in the wine world. Two Texas Tech professors piddled around with a few grapevines, originally intending to make grape jelly to supplement their income. “Doc” McPherson, a chemistry professor, and Robert Reed, a horticultural specialist, wondered if the Texas High Plains around Lubbock could diversify regional <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/texas-wine-ascendent-3-19-2025/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wedding Oak Winery Chenin Blanc, Texas High Plains, Phillips Vineyard 2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jan 2025 04:04:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Pale gold color; citrus, Mandarin orange, lemon, grapefruit, pear, green apple, banana, grass, crushed stone, minerality on the nose and palate. Bone dry; negligible tannins; refreshing, if mild, acidity (3.7 pH). Light-plus body. No oak influence. Fermented and aged in stainless steel to preserve lively character and bright fruits. Aged on fine lees for two <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/wedding-oak-winery-chenin-blanc-texas-high-plains-phillips-vineyard-2023/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas wine AVAs episode #2 10-11-2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Oct 2023 06:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texas wine facts: Texas is the fifth-largest winemaking state, behind California, Washington, New York, and Oregon. And Texas wine is No. 3 in economic impact, just behind California and New York. Both rankings according to the National Association of American Wineries. There are eight Texas AVAs (American Viticultural Regions). Last week we examined three around <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/texas-wine-avas-episode-2-10-11-2023/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Texas wine AVAs episode #1 10-4-2023</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Oct 2023 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Texas wine once was an amusing blip on the wine world radar. There was interesting activity around Lubbock, an ambitious project in the Big Bend, dreamers in the Hill Country, and—of course—ardent over-achievers around College Station. But wine? In Texas? Come’on man. Seriously? Well, Texas winemakers are the ones laughing now and skeptics are in <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/texas-wine-avas-episode-1-10-4-2023/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Llano Estacado Cellar Reserve Texas Cabernet Sauvignon 2013</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2016 20:48:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ruby color; black cherry, blackberry, plum on the nose; dark cherry, plum, raspberry, black currant tang, oak, leather on the palate. Dry; rustic; dusty medium-plus tannins; average acidity; toasty oak, vanilla, touch of mocha. Blend of roughly 80% cabernet sauvignon and 20% tempranillo (the formula varies over vintages and the winery does not get specific <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/llano-estacado-cellar-reserve-texas-cabernet-sauvignon-2013/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Pedernales Cellars Texas Tempranillo 2014</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Aug 2016 02:19:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Dark purple color; cherry, blackberry, smoke on the nose; sour cherry, plum, blackberry, strawberry, leather on the palate. Dusty tannin with some grip, low acidity, oak and vanilla, big fruitiness, bold wine and additional proof that Spain’s noble red wine grape thrives in Texas. The name translates into “little early” grape (“tamprano” means early, and <a class="read-more" href="https://www.gusclemensonwine.com/pedernales-cellars-texas-tempranillo-2014/">Read More</a>]]></description>
		
		
		
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