Author: iknomore

• ..Like a Jack Rabbit in the Wind

  …like a jack rabbit in the wind Winter 2023 has been all about the wind. Not particularly surprising since West Texas is considered the windiest place in all of America.…

  

• “But I force a smile, knowing that my ambition far exceeded my talent” George Jung

  August 10, 2021   It’s been eight months since my last post. And to think I was planning on putting something out every week. I was planning on painting the…

  

• From old farmhouse to vineyard cabin

  Once upon a time this had been the vineyard managers house.  I’m pretty sure for the past decade or so it has been home to a pack of coyotes. We…

  

• Our first adventure making wine

  We were able to cull about fifteen five gallon buckets worth of Mourvedre grapes and about four five gallon buckets of the Sangiovese from the grapes that were not picked…

  

• All in a days work…

  It’s September 5th and we have been the proud owners of the vineyard for five days.  We now have our DBA as Boxing Rabbit Vineyard, opened our accounts and are…

  

• Our first picture

  Jacob Alison came up from Houston in early June 2020 to have a look at Martin’s Vineyard. We were just starting to figure out how we might make it happen.…

  

• Getting Started

  Sometimes you are just lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time. Preston Alison began driving the dusty roads in the Texas Panhandle looking for the…

  

• Info and History of Martin’s Vineyard

  Boxing Rabbit Vineyard is thirty acres with eleven varieties of grapes.  Founded in 1975 by Andy Martin as Martin’s Vineyard, it is the oldest continually operating commercial vineyard in Texas. …