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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. The new owners, Preston and Kelly Alison, are working hard everyday to renew the old vines and bring the vineyard…
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..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. Indeed, the vineyards around Lubbock Texas experience an average wind around 30 mph, often gusting up to 60 mph, starting…
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“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 inside of the vineyard cabin all Mexican bohemian. I was thinking we would BBQ more; blog more, maybe even do…
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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 decided November would be a great month to make some improvements so Preston took off down to Houston to pick…
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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 during harvest. It gave us the opportunity to try our hand at some homemade wine. We pretty much had to…
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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 preparing for the harvest of 7 acres of Mourvedre. They didn’t get much water this year because the irrigation system…
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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. This is a picture he took from the southwest of the hill, looking through the Chenin Blanc and up towards…
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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 perfect spot to start a vineyard back in 2017. Hundreds of hours talking about just the right slope or the…
