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By Mike Sutter
| Sunday, April 19, 2009, 06:23 PM
Former professional football player Alphonse Dotson (above, with his wife, Martha Cervantes-Dotson) is good at growing grapes. His crops from Certenberg Vineyards in Voca, 80 miles northwest of Austin, have contributed to the acclaim earned by Texas’ Fall Creek Vineyards.
But at the Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival’s Sunday Fair in Driftwood, Dotson said he’s also trying his hand at making wine. Dotson said that in June he and his wife, Martha Cervantes-Dotson, hope to release Gotas D’Oro (“Drops of Gold”), a white wine blended with late-harvest moscato grapes and a “mystery grape” to create a semi-sweet blend that’s “bold, but not too aggressive.”
The fair, which drew about 3,000 people to sample wine and specialty foods at the Vineyards at the Salt Lick in Driftwood, was the final event of the four-day festival.
(American-Statesman photo by Mike Sutter)
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