In the early seventies, when America began to awaken to locally sourced food and wine, Gretchen Glasscock , returned to Texas from the East with a degree from Columbia University and a penchant for research.
Taking over management of the family's 20,000 acres of ranch land and seeking to diversify their interests, she upended a Texas A&M Study asserting that all Texas was a hot and humid climate suitable for growing only jug wines.
She identified the region around Blue Mountai.
Advancing Texas Wines Texas wine pioneers: how texas upset the world wine stage and continues to redefine it, hardcover/gretchen glasscock
