Success is contagious. The Texas wine industry is a close-knit community with a history of sharing information, advice and resources. The Texas Wine Grape Registry, a voluntary program authorized by the State Legislature in 2006, enables easy communication between wineries and grape growers. This online portal allows wineries to monitor the state's fruit supply and locate specific grape varietals. Growers can access the registry to determine demand for certain varietals, as well as using it to pass along information of industry-wide significance.
Created by SB 1370, the Registry is envisioned as the primary communication channel for the Texas wine industry. The more wineries and growers participate in the program, the greater the benefit to the entire community.
Registry Listing
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Notice Regarding Percentage Volume of Texas Grapes Required by Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Section 16.011
Texas Agriculture Code, Section 12.039, as enacted by the 79th Legislature, Regular Session, 2005, in Senate Bill 1137 (Section 12.039), provides that the Commissioner of Agriculture may reduce the percentage by volume of fermented juice of Texas grapes, or other fruit, that wine produced by a wineries located in a dry areas of Texas must contain under Texas Alcoholic Beverage Code, Section 16.011. The Commissioner has received a report from the Texas Wine Marketing Research Institute for the 2006 Texas wine grape crop year, as provided for in Section 12.039. Upon review of that report and other information provided regarding the 2006 wine grape crop, the Commissioner has determined that there is sufficient information to support a reduction of the percentage of Texas grown grapes and fruit that is required by Section 16.011 to be in wine produced by wineries located in dry areas of Texas from 75% to 25% for the 2007 calendar year.
In accordance with Section 12.039(g), if a winery in a dry area of Texas finds, even after the commissioner's reduction of the percentage volume requirement to 25%, that a particular variety of a Texas-grown grape or other fruit is not available to a level sufficient for the winery to meet the winery's planned production for the relevant year, the winery may request that the commissioner further reduce the percentage requirement. The winery must submit documentation to the commissioner substantiating that the winery has not been able to acquire those grapes or other fruit grown in this state in an amount sufficient to meet the winery's production needs and to comply with the requirements of Section 16.011, as adjusted by the commissioner. If the commissioner determines that there is not a sufficient quantity of that variety of grapes or other fruit grown in this state to meet the needs of that winery, the commissioner may further reduce the percentage requirement for wine bottled during the remainder of the calendar year that contains that variety of Texas-grown grape or fruit.
Filed with the Office of the Secretary of State on December 20, 2006. Published in the December 29, 2006 issue of the Texas Register (31 TexReg 10943).