Visiting the Great Texas Wineries and Enjoying Wine
http://blog.peachcreekvineyards.com Peach Creek Vineyards is located in College Station and is owned by Ken and Donna Stolpman. Donna handles the tasting room while Ken does the winemaking. They first planted a test vineyard of 1/2 acre in January 2008 with Muscadine and Lenoir grapes. In January 2011 they planted an acre each of Noble and Magnolia Muscadines, one acre of Lenoir, 1/2 acre of Lomanto, and some Mustang grapes. Today they have a total of 5 acres of vineyards. Peach [Read More...]
I recently published a post about spring and summer wine festivals. A comment was added from Bruce Anderson of Sunset Winery that I should list wine trail events. What a great idea! A lot of Texas wineries are on wine trails and they often have events throughout the year which feature different themes, special activities/wines at each winery, etc. It makes it easy to visit a number of wineries which are in close proximity to each other. Bottom line, they [Read More...]
We met up with some wine friends to visit a few Bluebonnet Wine Trail wineries during a day trip. It all started with Gloria and me deciding to go to Messina Hof for New Year’s Eve. Laurie and Shelly Ware from Cleburne decided to do the same. Dave and Kelli Potter from Frisco were going to be visiting family in the general area so we all decided to join up and visit a few wineries. We met at the Southern [Read More...]
http://www.saddlehornwinery.com Saddlehorn Winery is located on a 360 acre ranch in Burton and is very easy to find as it is not far from Highway 290 between Houston and Austin. The winery was opened in 2010 by Steve and Galin Morgan. The vineyard was planted in 2006 and consists of two acres of Blanc du Bois and one acre of Black Spanish grapes to make their Texas wine. As you enter the driveway, you eventually cross a wood and metal [Read More...]
http://www.pleasanthillwinery.com Pleasant Hill Winery is located in Brenham and is very easy to find off the main road. The winery is in a building resembling a barn at the top of the hill and is owned by Bob and Jeanne Cottle. We first visited Pleasant Hill during the summer. A tour is available at certain hours which take you to the winery cellar where the wine making process happens. Bob gave us the tour when we took it. Even though [Read More...]
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...]
We mentioned Sister Creek Vineyards previously so we thought it would be appropriate to talk about them this time. Also we thought we would discuss one nearby winery in addition to a winery we accidentally discovered while doing the Munson Wine Trail in the east Dallas area. Sister Creek Vineyards http://www.sistercreekvineyards.com Sister Creek Vineyards is located in the “huge” town of Sisterdale, TX, population 25. When we first arrived at the Vineyard, it looked like a barn in this tiny [Read More...]
We’re still trying to determine exactly what we want to describe about each winery so if there’s something you want us to ask or something to know about each winery, please let us know by leaving a comment. The first winery we’ll discuss is Bernhardt Winery. We learned one thing last year about Texas wineries. We assumed one winery is a competitor to another and learned otherwise. We were talking to the owner of one winery and he mentioned how [Read More...]
In our first post in which we explained the purpose of the blog, we said we would discuss five wineries per post. As we thought more about it, we thought it would be interesting to show photos of the wineries. Including photos along with any descriptions for five wineries would make a very long post. Hopefully we will have photos of wineries we have visited in future blog posts, but we did not start taking photos of all wineries last [Read More...]
