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NATIONAL REPUTATION

  • Four time winner Texas Best Winery at the Texas Livestock Show and Rodeo, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007.
  • Selected to be featured at the Presidential 2005 Inauguration.
  • Featured at the 2005 Super Bowl in Houston, Texas.
  • Recent vintner's dinners in Houston and Austin have drawn up to 250 people
  • Messina Hof was among a featured selection of wines at the American Wine Society's National Conference in Las Vegas in October 2005
  • Messina Hof's Angel Johannisberg Riesling was featured as part of the James Beard Culinary Dinner series in New York City to accompany a menu from The Gray Moss Inn
  • Messina Hof is the first and only Texas winery to have a proprietary bottle
  • $100,000 was invested to create a fabulous new Messina Hof label, debuted in June of 2005, and pressure sensitive equipment.

MEDIA ACCOLADES

  • The Wine Spectator gave Messina Hof's Late Harvest Johannisberg Riesling, "Angel," the highest rating ever given a Texas wine and described our Muscat Canelli as "brilliant."
  • Bon Appétit named Messina Hof as "One of the USA's Finest Winery Experiences. "
  • Messina Hof Winery & Resort voted "Most Romantic Place in the Brazos Valley" by the Best of the Brazos Valley.
  • The Fort Worth Star Telegram named Messina Hof "the Winery of the Decade" and acknowledged Messina Hof's winning of the blind taste Grand Cru competition in Bordeaux, France.
  • Voted by the Houston Chronicle as "The Best Day Trip" and the Houston Press as
  • The Wall Street Journal said, "Texas is the fastest growing wine producing region in the country and the leader is Messina Hof Wine Cellars in Bryan, Texas."

CONSUMER AVAILABILITY
Messina Hof wines can be found in fine wine shops, grocery chains and in many dining establishments across the state of Texas, Louisiana, Colorado, Nevada, Tennessee, Oklahoma and North Carolina.

THE VINTAGE HOUSE RESTAURANT

  • Voted "One of the Three Best Restaurants in Texas"
  • Voted "Dining Worth the Drive" by Texas Co-op Magazine readers.
  • Features vineyard cuisine with fresh-from-the-garden ingredients and food prepared with Messina Hof's award-winning wines.

THE VILLA BED AND BREAKFAST

  • Recognized as "The Most Romantic Bed & Breakfast in the USA."
  • Dallas Morning News named The Villa as "One of the Finest Bed & Breakfasts in the USA."