There comes a point in just about every Texas road trip where a personal moment surfaces and human and natural elements of this great state combine. In this case, I was heading out across the Cross Timbers prairie on Highway 81 past Decatur with the blackland farming belt in my rear view mirror. The land opened around me to an almost cosmic proportion with brushy lands casting out far and wide from the sides of the roadway. The hawks were positioned like sentinels of the road on fence posts, telephone wires, and tree tops scanning wide-eyed in search of their prairie buffet.

The purpose of this leg of my trip was to visit Les Constable – grape grower, winemaker, and owner of Brushy Creek Vineyards in Alvord, Texas. When I arrived, Les had two glasses of wine poured and we sat in discussion on the outside deck.

Les Constable comes by his love of growing things honestly; his father being a research biologist. However, Les is also a nuclear engineer by education and a product of Admiral Rickover’s nuclear navy. He is blessed with an inquisitive mind that for the past decade has been focused on defining the future Texas wine experience giving him a new title: Texas’ supreme expérimenter.

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