Texas vineyards report high-quality wine grapes

Texas wine grape growers are reporting high-quality fruit this season despite scattered weather-related challenges and ongoing uncertainty in wine markets, according to a Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service specialist.

Justin Scheiner, Ph.D., associate professor and AgriLife Extension statewide viticulture specialist in the Texas A&M Department of Horticultural Sciences, Bryan-College Station, said harvest is still underway in parts of west Texas and the High Plains, while Gulf Coast, north Texas and Hill Country vineyards have mostly wrapped up picking.

Overall, yields have been average while quality has been very good to excellent where growers managed disease pressure.

PHOTO: Picked grapes sit in storage containers awaiting transport. (Photo by Sam Craft, Texas A&M AgriLife.)