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Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Driftwood Estate Winery… 100% Texas, 100% Gold Medal Winners, 100% Best View

April 1, 2024 admin 0

Still to this day, the RUMOR PERSISTS that Texas wineries are not making “REAL TEXAS” wines, choosing instead to simply relabel wines or use grapes from west coast winegrowing regions. There is a SECOND RUMOR […]

Dolcetto

Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Double Gold Medal Winning Wines at Carter Creek Winery, Resort and Spa

March 9, 2024 admin 0

Looking for a wine tasting, a glass of wine, a good craft beer, or a wine club membership? Or, perhaps you are searching for resort villa accommodations, a spa treatment, fine dinning, a wedding venue, […]

Food and Wine

Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Wedding Oak Winery’s SFO Chronicle Top Award Winners

February 15, 2024 admin 0

On this tasting stop at Wedding Oak Winery, we’ve got some good (and even Gold Medal) tasting to do today! Mike and Lynn McHenry, the passionate owners of the Wedding Oak Winery purchased 112 acres […]

Cabernet Sauvignon

Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Hawk’s Shadow Where a Bad Boy Blend Comes with Good Views and Charm

February 4, 2024 admin 0

For starters, Hawk’s Shadow Winery is located near Dripping Springs in the Texas Hill Country, and yet is just 30 miles from downtown Austin. This is where owners Doug Reed, Tom Reed, and Chip Conklin […]

Food and Wine

Texas Hill Country Wineries Tasting Stop: Come on by Bent Oak Winery By Feb. 4th or Online After!

January 31, 2024 admin 0

Bent Oak Winery is located just west of Austin, in Cedar Park, Texas. For those that have not already been there, it is located at 2000 Windy Terrace Suite 2B. From Austin proper, go north […]

Chenin Blanc

Texas Hill Country Tasting Stop: Experience Texas Hills Vineyard Wines Made in a Lean Italian Style, But Grown Under The Texas Sun

May 16, 2023 admin 0

From memory, the Texas Hills Vineyard story as first told to me by Gary Gilstrap was punctuated with this… “We have many hills but only one vineyard.” This is how I always remembered that the name of the Gilstrap’s winery was Texas Hills Vineyard and was NOT Texas Hill Vineyards. […]

Cabernet Sauvignon

Texas Fine Wine Tasting Stops: Spicewood Hill Country Tempranillo and Pedernales Block Zero

November 2, 2022 admin 0

Both of these Spicewood and Pedernales wines are made for outdoor gatherings and alfresco dinning this Fall. […]

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