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Michael Barton of Hilmy Cellars Winemaker Profile
Hilmy Cellars has been open for 10 years this month. When the winery opened, co-owner Erik Hilmy was the winemaker. Since that time, there is a new winemaker in town, Michael Barton. The wines have...
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Visiting the New Winery of Siboney Cellars
Siboney Cellars first started making wine in 2018 and in the beginning shared the tasting room of Hawk’s Shadow Winery. The plan for owners Barbara and Miguel Lecuona was to open their own tasting...
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Hill Country Wineworks
Chris and Kelley Baber wanted to create a non-intimidating environment where consumers can discover wines they enjoy so they opened Hill Country Wineworks in Comfort, Texas, in August 2021. During a...
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The Hill at Hye
John Rivenburgh has been an influencer in Texas wine for years starting with Bending Branch Winery and his own wine label Rivenburgh Wine, while at the same time consulting with other wineries. The...
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Turtle Creek Olives & Vines
The Turtle Creek Olives & Vines tasting room is located in downtown Kerrville. Dan and Sue Schulse started Turtle Creek Enterprise in March 2016 after traveling to Italy in 2013 and experiencing...
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Dry Comal Creek Vineyards Revisited
So many wineries are opening up in the Texas Hill Country around US 290 and the focus of Texas wine seems to be in that area where the majority of Texas wineries are located. That is the primary...
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Pontita Vineyard and Winery
Pontita Vineyard and Winery is located in Spring Branch and is owned by Pat Clair who is also the winemaker. The winery opened in 2019. Pontita translates into “little bridge” which is their goal to...
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Kai-Simone Winery
Kai-Simone Winery is located in Spring Branch and is owned by Sheila Adams. The winery opened in 2019 and is named after Sheila’s two daughters’ middle names, Kai and Simone. Sheila is involved with...
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Limestone Terrace Vineyard
Limestone Terrace Vineyard is located in Wimberley and is owned by the Stovall and Dierickx families. Friends and business partners Ben Stovall and Paul Dierickx purchased the estate property in 2016...
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Inaugural Texas Wine Auction Raises $130K
Texas Wine Revolution (TWR), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, is proud to announce that their inaugural Texas Wine Auction raised a total of $130,000 through donations made through ticket sales...
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1900 Winery at The Heart of Art
On our last trip to the Hill Country, we wanted to spend a day focused on the new wineries that have opened in the Mason County area since our last visit. We weren’t able to visit them all, but we were...
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Dotson-Cervantes – Voca, TX
Our second stop in our Mason County winery tour was to Dotson-Cervantes in Voca. We met Alphonse Dotson and Martha Cervantes years ago at William Chris Vineyards where they were selling their Gotas de...
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Parr Vineyards – Mason, TX
Just off the square in Mason are two wineries in the same building. Our first winery visit of the two was Parr Vineyards where we were fortunate to catch Robert Parr in the tasting room with Dilek, his...
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Fly Gap Winery
We have known Fly Gap Winery’s owner Brock Estes for over ten years. He was associated with Mason, Texas, but when we first met him, he actually lived about ten minutes from us in Houston. He would...
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Three Members are added to Texas Hill Country Wineries
Texas Hill Country Wineries (THCW) is the largest association of wineries in the Texas Hill Country that is known for being the prominent winery destination in Texas. The association was established...
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Robert Clay Vineyards
When we announced that we were going to visit Mason, several members of Texas Wine Drinkers emphasized that we needed to visit Dan and Jeanie McLaughlin at Robert Clay Vineyards. We were grateful that...
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Kuhlman Cellars Releases First Ever Estate Grown Red Wine
Kuhlman Cellars is proud to release its first ever Estate-grown red wine: the 2019 Kuhlmanation Estate Red ($42). This red blend was nine years in the making. Harvested over multiple days in August...
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Saba Winery
We stepped off the rustic, rural street of “small town” Mason into a taste of Spain, the Saba Winery tasting room. Scott Monette greeted us in the brand-new space in a pretty old building on the...
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Peters Prairie Vineyard
Located right on the courtyard square in Mason is Peters Prairie Vineyard owned by Curt and Kim Pipkin Henderson. They also own the vineyard of the same name that is located outside of Mason. The...
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Visiting Mason, the New Winery Destination
When we first started visiting wineries in the Texas Hill Country and discovered Mason, there was one winery in town—Sandstone Cellars Winery. Today there are seven wineries within walking distance of...
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