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Messina Hof winery was founded
Bryan, by Paul and Merrill Bor-
ragino in 1977, but the award-win
ning winemakers get their inspiration
from 200 years of family tradition
that reaches all the way to Sicily and
Germany.
The Messiiia Hof winery cele
brated its new vintages this weekend
with a two-day festival that included
wine tasting, grape stomping, educa
tional seminars and two gourmet din
ner receptions with live entertain
ment and dancing.
Messina Hof started as a joint
venture with Texas A&M to try to
find an appropriate grape variety for
producing wine in Texas. Messina
Hof is one of 13 vineyards A&M
has helped found over the years
with its agriculture and agribusiness
programs.
The Bonarrigos joined A&M in
finding a grape that was hardy in the
Texas climate. Paul Bonarrigo said
they planted 47 grape varieties on the
40-acre test site to test the viability of
the grape plants.
Bonarrigo said 42 acres of Messi
na Hof’s vineyards are planted with
one variety of grape vines called the
black, or linoir, grape. The winery
collects grapes from other locations
throughout Texas to make its Texas-
bred vintages. The linoir grapevine
does so well in Texas’ extreme
weather that it does not have to be
grafted onto hardier stock plants to
produce great-tasting fruit.
“It loves the soil and the heat and
humidity here,” Bonarrigo said.
Bonarrigo said the linoir grape
has a specific taste that makes it es
pecially good for winemaking.
“It tastes like those chocolate-
covered cherries,” Bonarrigo said.
Messina Hof’s name also has a
history. Bonarrigo’s family is from
Messina, Sicily, and his wife Mer
rill’s family is from Hof, Germany.
Paul Bonarrigo studied winemak
ing in college and he said he has
memories of making wine in his par
ents’ house. He said his aunts and un
cles would come over on Saturdays
to make wine in the basement.
“It was great fun for me as a kid,”
Bonarrigo said.
At Messina Hof, the grapes are
harvested by hand in July and Au
gust. The grapes are pressed, and the
stems are removed. Bonarrigo said
the grape skins are removed for white
wines and left on for red and blush
wines. In Messina Hof’s port wine
lab, the grapes and juice are put into
4,000-gallon refrigerated fermenting
containers to turn the fruit into alco
hol. Then the liquid is put into oak
barrels from six months to two years,
depending on the variety. Bonarrigo
said the barrels give the wine a vanil
la and chocolate flavor.
Bonarrigo said the winemakers at
Messina Hof are responsible for
blending the tastes and bottling the
wines to create flavors from the dry
white wine, Sauvignon Blanc, to the
award-winning premium red wine,
Paulo.
Bonan igo said the whole point of
port blending is to enhance the nat
ural favor already evident after the
fermenting process.
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Since Messina Hof introduced its
first commercially available wine in
1983, the winery has gone on to win
awards and expand. Bonarrigo said
the winery produces about 200,000
gallons of wine annually and sells
more than 95 percent of its wine in
Texas.
“Texans would rather buy Texan
wine,” Bonarrigo said.
Messina Hof is making a name for
itself. In addition to being a positive
economic factor in Texas industry,
the winery has grown into a tourist
destination in the Bryan-College Sta
tion area, with a bed and bra
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