The Oswald family has been well-known throughout the Texas wine industry if not for the grapes from their vineyard that was founded in 2008, but for their large family with John and Dina-Marie Oswald and their ten children. Now they are making wine from their estate vineyard and becoming well-known for that.
On a recent trip to the Texas High Plains, I made a point to visit Oswald Vineyard. I first visited the vineyard and winery in 2020 when they were just starting to make wine. Their tasting room then opened in 2021.
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Oswald vineyard with winery in the rear
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The Oswald vineyard with the winery in the rear
I arrived at the tasting room and Christoph Oswald soon met me. The tasting room is in the front of the production room where the stainless-steel tanks and barrels are. Christoph said they recently received some new tanks. None of the tanks have cooling jackets as they prefer to make their wine in that style.
A tasting includes six wines and a small cheese plate. It was nice doing the tasting having the cheese plate to cleanse my palate and enjoy while tasting the wine. One interesting point was each of the wines was poured from
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