I'll drink to that where we get behind the scenes of the beverage business.

I'm Levy Dalton.

I'm Erin Scala and here's our show today. Oh, As it did everywhere in the United States, prohibition crippled the Texas wine industry and just one winery, Valverde, survived prohibition under a

Sacramento wine provision. Today, Texas has about 350 wineries in operation and the wine industry has gone through some

growing phases over the last two decades. With eight avias so far, Texas is

beginning to address the more subtle issues of Terwar.

Mesia Valley AVA by El Paso in the extreme western part of Texas seeps into New Mexico

and roughly corresponds with some of the first viticultural regions in Texas that date back to the

1600s. Drive east a bit and you'll hit the Texas Davis Mountains aviae tucked into the southern

Rockies. Here the vineyards are at high elevations and you'll find

some interesting wines distinctive from the rest of the state. Continue driving

east and you'll hit the Escondido Valley AVA. Here the elevation changes as you go north to south,

but the predominant feature across the region is the loam soil.

Making our way farther eastward yet, we hit the Texas Hill Country AVA, a very large ABA, about 9 million acres big.

9 million acres, that's about the size of Maryland and Connecticut combined or 8

Delaware's. In all that land there is quite a bit of variation in terms of soil type, elevations, and microclimates.

This huge AVA includes two smaller AVA, Fredericksburg AVA and Bell Mountain AVA.

Fredericksburg ABA is on the tiny size for Texas,

a little bigger than 70,000 acres, which is about half of Delaware.

Here the soil is mostly clay loam but there are

elevation variations marked by low valleys and high peaks. The Bell Mountain

AVA covers the southwestern slopes of, you guessed it,

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