Texas A&M is growing at a rate never seen before. So is the state of Texas. Hordes of economically-mobile masses have descended on our suburbs and outer city loops in the past couple of decades, and with that influx comes a massive demand for something else: a haughty and superior knowledge of wines.
When I was at A&M, the extent of wine appreciation among my circle reached to seeing who could smuggle the biggest flask into a formal at Messina Hof. In my later years there several (6 or 7?) friends and I would sit in a circle and pass around one of those large jugs of Carlo Rossi wines until it was empty.