Acknowledgements and Admonitions

Finally, I would like to introduce you to the team of tasters which helped to evaluate each winery over the course of this project. Each of these individuals was a student at Texas A&M University and a friend of mine from a Sunday night wine group that selflessly/selfishly volunteered to travel, taste, and evaluate. To see their responses to the questionnaire, please follow the links below their names.

John Kirgis
Senior Mechanical Engineering Major and avid wine and cocktail chemist
John's Responses

Josh Lucas
Senior Chemical engineering Major and wine student
Josh's Responses

Kathleen Doeling
Senior Biomedical Science Major and wine lover
Kathleen's Responses

Jacque Cambell
Texas A&M Graduate, environmental scientist, and master taster

This project would have been impossible without their help and responses.

It is also important at this time to thank my research professor Dr. Greg Cobb for not only allowing me to explore wineries on his watch, but also for teaching me the basic principles of wine production in his first two semesters of Enology at Texas A&M. This project was extremely interesting, informative, and entertaining and I hope that with it, I have been able to educate you, the readers, on not only wine production in general, but also about its practice and growth in Texas. Don't forget to check out the second largest wine tourism location in the United States in Fredericksberg on the 290 Trail and remember that enjoying wine, much like making it, is an art and a science. 

Cheers,

Heather MacDonald