2005 LightCatcher Dry Orange Muscat Price: $80.00 Quantity in Basket: none Newsom Vineyard. Texas High Plains appellation. This is an Alsatian-styled Orange Muscat, which means it is dry (no sugar). It delivers clean tropical flavors of papaya, apricot and citrus. It is absolutely delicious with duck, roast pork and sausages, cheddar cheeses, middle-eastern and Thai foods, and most cream-sauced foods. Currently we are the only winery in Texas that we are aware of that is making a DRY Orange Muscat. Based on the response to it, we'll continue to do it. It is a wonderful food wine and delivers lots of entertainment value in the intensity and complexity of the flavors. It was taken by the Texas Department of Agriculture to a wine tasting in Manhattan where they invited wine and food writers (Food & Wine, Gourmet, Conde Nast, etc.) to blind taste Texas wines against world-class ringers - in this case a Bott Freres Grand Cru Muscat - and won!! Only a few bottles left.   2008 Texas Roads Hummingbird White Wine Price: $18.00 Quantity in Basket: none Fresh, bright and clean flavors of pear, apple, melon and fig. Delicious with white cheeses, light fish and poultry. Great patio wine too.   2008 Happy Cat Sweet White Price: $18.00 Quantity in Basket: none This is a semi-sweet white blend of sauvignon blanc, muscat canelli and orange muscat. It delivers lush, clean flavors of apricot, peach, pear and apple with a hint of pineapple. We bet it'll make you purr with pleasure.   2008 Texas KISS Merlot Rosé Price: $16.00 Quantity in Basket: none Fresh, crisp and a touch sweet, this top selling and Texas Grand Champion is a perfect patio wine, and also suits spicy foods - BBQ, Mexican, Asian. Flavors of strawberry, cranberry and watermelon - the label features the winemaker's lipprint to emphasize this beauty has Texas-sized "kisses" of flavors.   2007 LightCatcher Etain's Rose Rosé Price: $18.00 Quantity in Basket: none Dry (no sugar) yet fruity rosé that is French in style, suiting foods like salmon, pork, white cheeses and cream sauces.   Texas Roads Remuda Red Price: $24.00 Quantity in Basket: none A "remuda" is a group of saddle horses that are kept as remounts on a working ranch. This wine, a blend of cabernet sauvignon and merlot, is a fantastic everyday table wine that is always ready to be enjoyed. Flavors of cherry, berry, vanilla, cedar and a bit of spice give you a wine that pairs beautifully with red meats, game and cheddar cheeses.   2008 Texas Roads Merlot Price: $22.00 Quantity in Basket: none Our "Jackrabbit" Merlot is an easy-drinking, surprisingly complex, smooth merlot that also has a lovely complexity - flavors of cherry, blackberry, anise, and blueberry. Winner TEXAS CHAMPION WINE - 2010 Houston International Wine Competition/HSLR.   2007 LightCatcher Bobcat Price: $34.00 Quantity in Basket: none Pepper, red licorice, herbs, flowers, oak, currant, blackberry... our Bobcat is a blend of 75% Syrah, 20% Mourvedre and 5% Cabernet Franc - it's elegant, complex and luscious.   LightCatcher 2005 Cabernet Sauvignon Price: $34.00 Quantity in Basket: none Released in November 2009, this Cab is proving to be our most popular ever. Barrel aged for four years in a mixed-age barrel program, the finished wine is rich, round and smooth. Aromas of black cherry, blueberry, plum and chocolate lead into flavors of plum, candied cherry, raisin, fig and spices, bound by moderate tannins and good acid.   2003 LightCatcher Merlot Price: $38.00 Quantity in Basket: none We have bottled the last tank of the beloved 2003 LightCatcher Merlot. This is an unusual merlot - it has a huge nose of mint, earth, warm spices, chocolate and coffee which leads into flavors of blueberry, chocolate and cedar, finishing with black cherry and spice. 2003 was a very different weather year with very low rainfall, and this wine reflects the resulting grapes - very concentrated and rich. As of Dec 2009 we are down to our last 20 cases.   Happy Dog Sweet Red Price: $14.00 Quantity in Basket: none Texas High Plains fruit. Texas Grand Champion and Class Champion 2006 & 2007 Houston Livestock & Rodeo Wine Competition. This is a sweet red that is complex and friendly giving a lot of entertainment value and is delicious to boot with flavors of deep plum, cherry, brown sugar and a hint of cedar. Great on its own, and also pairs well with spicy foods - try it with your next BBQ.   Summer Sangria Price: $36.00 Quantity in Basket: none Each summer we make a special wine that begins with a spicy red, to which we add peaches, nectarines and apples, and then fortify with brandy - this is hugely peachy, yummy and amazing. We make one batch, and when it's gone, it's gone.   Knotport Price: $39.00 Quantity in Basket: none A barrel-aged merlot fortified with fine barrel-aged brandy. Sweet, but not too sweet. Aromas and flavors of brown sugar, chocolate, cherry and warm spices.   Autumn Spice Spiced Wine Price: $26.00 Quantity in Basket: none We infused a barrel-aged blend with warm spices of cinnamon, nutmeg and clove - this wine is wonderful chilled, and can also be warmed as a perfect mulled wine.   Amour de Chocolat Dessert Wine Price: $26.00 Quantity in Basket: none A chocolate cherry explosion in your mouth. Huge nose of chocolate makes you want to just sit and enjoy the aroma - but the tantalizing scent begs you to drink and enjoy the fusion of chocolate, cherry and yummy goodness. Bottled in a tall, elegant Italian 500mL bottle. Best AS dessert, although we've been known to pair it with warm chocolate molten cake or cheesecake.   LightCatcher Wine Glass Price: $6.00 Quantity in Basket: none Our wine glass is imprinted with our LightCatcher goddess, and our quote: "Night & Love & Wine Want No Half Measures." The bowl is a 12oz and is properly shaped to capture the aromas of the wine. Suitable all purpose glass, especially good for reds.     LightCatcher Ball Cap Price: $16.00 Quantity in Basket: none Black ballcap with our name and Grapesteer logo. Reinforced low-rise front, adjustable band.   LightCatcher T-Shirt Price: $16.00 Quantity in Basket: none Our 'Grapesteer' logo is on the front of a top-quality Beefy-T, and the back has our favorite quote: "Night & Love & Wine Want No Half Measures".   Wine Crate with Your Choice of Wine Price: $9.95 Quantity in Basket: none Present a wine in a handmade wine crate. We nest the bottle in excelsior and wrap it with raffia. Our winemaker will sign the bottle and we can write any inscription you desire on the bottle. We also wrap a cork puller around the neck of the bottle. The crate makes a stylish bread server after the wine is gone.   Gift Basket - The Beginner Basket Price: $64.95 Quantity in Basket: none New to wine? This basket features wine and wine accessories that will please the new wine drinker - from a pretty grape-cluster foil cutter (that has a magnet so you can keep it on your fridge!), a beautiful and easy-to-use Italian cork puller, a Wine Savor set to keep an opened bottle fresh, highlighted with a bottle of our top selling Texas Kiss Rosé. Packaged in our large wine crate with excelsior and a raffia tie (tie not pictured).