When visiting Texas wineries, one of the most fun things to do is actually stay overnight at a winery. A lot of times the winery may have live music at night which lets you enjoy the music with a bottle of wine and not have to worry about driving home or to the local hotel. How nice it is to just walk to the winery’s lodging to stay the night. We have stayed overnight at a couple winery’s and have [Read More...]
Day 2 – Hill Country and Fredericksburg Road Trip
December 7, 2011 by 2 Comments
Day 2 arrived in Fredericksburg and the weather was rainy and a little cold. The weather couldn’t decide what to do while we were there. One morning it was near 70 and the next it would be in the 40′s and rain in between. I had previously made an appointment with Don Pullum (@akashicvineyard), winemaker at Sandstone Cellars Winery, to visit first thing they opened on Friday so we started our northern trip to Mason, TX. We had only “talked” [Read More...]
Day 1 – Hill Country and Fredericksburg Road Trip
December 6, 2011 by 8 Comments
Last year we went to Hill Country and Fredericksburg wineries three times. Unfortunately this was before we decided to start a blog and so we had no specific information about the wineries other than our memories. We started taking photos of the outside of a winery in the last trip just to help us remember what the winery looked like which we visited. But for some unknown reason, the photos taken with two cameras disappeared. So it was time to [Read More...]
White House Winery
November 7, 2011 by Leave a Comment
http://www.whitehousewinery.net White House Winery is located in White Hall near Navasota and is owned by Gary and Margo Hahne. The winery was planning on opening around the Conroe area but there were so many rules and regulations within the city limits that it was decided to find property in the country and deal with the less taxing county rules. They found a nice piece of property on FM 362, very near Retreat Hill Winery and Vineyard, and started building their [Read More...]
Texas Winery Passport Rewards and Los Pinos Weekend
August 8, 2011 by 6 Comments
As we have mentioned before, the Texas Winery Passport program is definitely something you should be involved with if you are visiting Texas wineries. The rewards get better and better as you visit more wineries. Even though the Texas Winery Passport program will be changing in some way at the start of September, we still recommend collecting passport codes as you visit Texas wineries. We have reached a passport level where the rewards are now given out by the wineries [Read More...]
Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards
August 5, 2011 by 2 Comments
http://www.lospinosranchvineyards.com Los Pinos Ranch Vineyards is located in Pittsburg and is owned by Jeff Sneed. The winery opened in 2001. We first learned about Los Pinos when we volunteered at a wine festival in Old Town Spring and they were there with a table. We met Sales Director Gerald Jones and he gave us his business card. He said when we make it to the winery, please let him know in advance and he would try to meet us. We [Read More...]
Texas Wine Release Party and Private Texas Wine Tasting
July 10, 2011 by Leave a Comment
One of the best things about Texas wines besides visiting Texas wineries is drinking the wine and especially enjoying the Texas wine with other people. This post is about two events we attended this past weekend which hold true to that principle. Texas Wine Release Party You may have read about our recent experience in bottling wines at Caldwell Family Winery & Vineyards. Chris Caldwell told us at the time he would be having a release party and we were [Read More...]
Tara Vineyard and Winery
June 6, 2011 by Leave a Comment
http://www.tarawinery.com Tara Vineyard and Winery opened in 2007 and is located near Athens. We had to enter GPS coordinates from Google maps to get us in the right location. It seems like a lot of wineries are located on county roads and are very difficult to find the correct address on a GPS. Fortunately we discovered the Google maps coordinates tip mentioned in our first post. Once we found the Tara Vineyard signs, we thought we were home free. However [Read More...]
Messina Hof, Hill Country
April 29, 2011 by 4 Comments
The largest wine trail in the state is the Texas Hill Country wine trail with 27 wineries at the moment. There are some fantastic wineries on the wine trail, and although it is a beautiful drive through the Hill Country, a lot of the wineries are far apart requiring more than a weekend if you want to visit them all. Fortunately, they have come up with a way to make it a little easier for you to taste the wines [Read More...]
Kiepersol
April 22, 2011 by 4 Comments
Kiepersol Enterprises is owned by South African Pierre de Wet who first came to the United States and started raising cattle. Since that time Kiepersol Enterprises has built up many businesses in the same vicinity including an extensive real estate operation, winery, bed and breakfast, restaurant, camping, and even a recording studio. KE Bushman’s Winery and Celebration Center http://www.kiepersol.com/bushmans KE Bushman’s Winery and Celebration Center is part of the company and is located in Bullard. It is available for concerts, [Read More...]
