Following is a Houston Chronicle story by Dale Robertson. For further information regarding books sales and signings go to www.wineslinger.net There will be a book signing at Barnes & Noble March 10 from 2 to 4.
Russ Kane may be a transplanted Texan, but he has come to understand the people of his adopted state as well as anyone, and he believes Texas winemakers are the epitome of our species.
“Tell a Texan he can’t do something,” Kane said, “and he’ll kill himself trying.”
The only reason the state has a burgeoning wine industry, which Kane lovingly explores in his new book, The Wineslinger Chronicles, is because our stubborn vintners simply won’t take no for an answer from Mother Nature. Heat, hail, drought and, worst of all, late frosts routinely make life miserable for growers and winemakers from East Texas to the Hill Country to the High Plains. But, no, the battle hasn’t yet been lost, making Kane no less determined, in the grand tradition of Texas storytelling, to explain what keeps these stubborn folks going. Continue reading…