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Texas

Texas is a wine region in United States, home to 40 wineries, producing red, rose, white wines, known for Texas Hill Country.

Texas at a glance: red-leaning; known for Texas Hill Country.
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Texas's 40 wineries lean red but make plenty of white too; Viognier is the most common single-grape bottling; wines carry AVA designation.

About the Texas region

    Location
    The Texan wine industry is continuing its steady pace of expansion and has gained a reputation as an established wine growing region in the United States.
    Climate
    The sunny and dry climate of the major winemaking regions in the state have drawn comparison to Portuguese wines, in addition to other regions in Europe like Spain, France, and Italy.
    Soils
    In USDA NRCS Soil Data Access results for Texas survey areas, Mollisols have the largest weighted component acreage, approximately 51,254,792 acres.

Region facts sourced from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Data Access query for Texas (TX survey-area prefix), retrieved 2026-07-11. (U.S. Government work / Public Domain (17 U.S.C. § 105)), Wikipedia contributors, "Texas wine", Wikipedia, revision 1357184274, retrieved 2026-07-11. (Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International).

Most common single-grape wines

When Texas wines are made from a single grape (rather than a blend), these are the most common:

Wine profile

Texas leans red (about 58% of its wines) but makes meaningful white too.

455 distinct Texas wines tracked, spanning the colours and styles below.

  • Red263 · 58%
  • White142 · 31%
  • Rose46 · 10%

Types: Port, Sparkling, Still.

Representative Texas wines

Selected from stable product-to-region relationships for diversity — not a claim that these are the region's best wines.

  • Messina Hof — Private Reserve Viognier
  • Flat Creek Estate — Tempranillo
  • Grape Creek Vineyards — Muscat Canelli
  • Bingham Estate — Trebbiano
  • Salt Lick Cellars — GSM
  • Pedernales — Newson Vineyards North Block
  • Messina Hof — Private Reserve Tex-Zin
  • Pedernales — Tempranillo

Sub-regions & appellations

Within Texas, these appellationsA legally-defined smaller growing area within a wine region, often with its own grapes and rules. are smaller growing areas, often with their own character:

  • Texas High Plains
  • Texas Hill Country
  • Escondido Valley
  • Bell Mountain
  • Fredericksburg in the Texas Hill Country

Quality designations

Wines here carry AVA status — a controlled quality designation.

  • AVAAmerican Viticultural Area — a defined US grape-growing region, marking where the grapes were grown.

United States wine designations

AVA
An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area.
Understanding the wine data
Designation
The protected-origin or administrative category associated with the wine, interpreted using country-aware rules. The same abbreviation can mean different things in different countries, so we only show the meaning approved for that country.
How this ranking is built

Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.

Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.

Explore Texas

Ways to browse Texas — each count is the size of that specific collection (a subset of the 455 wines tracked above):

  • Red Texas (88)
  • White Texas (58)

How to choose a good Texas wine

Look for the AVA designation — it signals a controlled-origin Texas wine.

FAQs

Where is Texas?
The Texan wine industry is continuing its steady pace of expansion and has gained a reputation as an established wine growing region in the United States.
What do the designation terms on Texas wines mean?
AVA: An American viticultural area is a U.S.-government-recognized delimited grape-growing area. These terms describe geographical or regulatory categories; they do not by themselves guarantee that one producer or bottle is better than another.
How are wineries and producers selected for Texas?
Producers are included when WhatDrink has a canonical producer-to-region relationship supported by the catalogue data. Display order may use represented wine count and relationship confidence to provide useful coverage; it is not a ranking of winery quality, prestige, production volume or critical acclaim.
How are representative Texas wines selected?
Representative wines are selected from products with a stable relationship to this region, with preference for clear producer identity and a useful spread of producers, wine styles and designations. Inclusion is not an editorial score and does not mean these are the region’s best wines.
How much wine data does WhatDrink have for Texas?
The current regional catalogue contains 455 linked wines from 40 linked producers. Counts describe WhatDrink catalogue coverage and may change as source data is refreshed.

Regional data is aggregated from wine directory and product-catalogue sources; grape and style associations reflect characteristic varieties and may vary by producer and vintage.