As we drove up to McReynolds' tasting room, the gravel crunched under our tires and we heard a dog begin to bark. As we got out of the car and admired the log cabin that houses the tasting room, an older lady came out of an adjacent building and hailed us. She was wearing a baseball cap that...
No self-respecting winery reviewer could take a road trip through south Texas on I-35 and not stop at a place called Three Dudes Winery. Well, at least not if that winery reviewer is me. Any winery called Three Dudes has to have an innate sense of humor and a certain degree of coolness -at...
Spicewood Vineyards was our last stop of the afternoon on a hot day in August. I was thinking it might just be a quick stop and then we'd get on the road to Dallas -not a fun drive on a Sunday evening, especially if you take the interstate. But Spicewood had other ideas. It's the kind of place...
Unlike some of the wineries I visit, I had some pre-existing knowledge of Pedernales Cellars. I'd heard it mentioned, with positive comments and accolades, in articles about Texas wine, and I'd actually had a bottle of Pedernales Tempanillo at III Forks restaurant in Dallas during Restaurant...
Fall Creek really has everything you'd want in a winery: a great view on the drive in, personality in its tasting room and the person representing it, the opportunity to learn about their processes and facilities, some very good wines -and the welcome wagon led by two friendly felines. It feels...
I went to Austin to see friends in town from Britain (he's from Texas, she's Scottish, they live in the English countryside) and they enthusiastically orchestrated an afternoon of wine tasting. The transplanted Texan's parents live in Round Rock, and Mom suggested Water2Wine. I wasn't terribly...