Spring Brings Wine Trail Events
Texas has 19 Wine Trails to welcome you to enjoy special wine tastings, concerts, overnight stays, and more in the Spring. The weather all over Texas is bringing the greenery out, making March and April with pleasant temperatures luring you to wineries throughout the State of Texas. These wine trails include:
• Bay Breeze Wine Trail – Gulf Coast
• Cross Timbers Wine Trail – North Texas
• Dallas Town and Country Wine Trail – North Texas
• Driftwood Wine Trail – Driftwood, TX
• Dripping Wine Trail – In and Around Dripping Springs, TX
• Grapevine Wine Trail – Grapevine, TX
• Guadalupe Valley Wine Country – Central Texas
• Piney Woods Wine Trail – East Texas
• Red River Wine Trail – North Texas
• Sam Houston Wine Trail – East Texas
• Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail – Southeast Texas
• Texas Coast Wine Trail
• Texas High Plains Wine and Vine Trail – Lubbock Area
• Texas Hill Country Wineries – Fredericksburg Area
• Texas Independence Wine Trail – South and Central Texas
• Thirsty Oaks Wine Trail – Texas Hill Country
• Top of the Hill Country Wine Trail – Texas Hill Country
• Way Out Wineries – Southwest Texas
• Wine Road 290 – Fredericksburg Area
The oldest wine trail is the Texas Hill Country Wineries which started in 1999 and has grown to 63 wineries in 2023. There are over 120 wineries in the Texas Hill Country, but only 65 wineries have qualified to become a member of the Texas Hill Country Wineries. This wine trail experiences over 2,020,000 tourism visitors during the last calendar year and that was at the end of the pandemic. These wineries provided jobs for over 141,000 with annual wages approaching seven billion dollars. These economic numbers are very impressive, but what is impressive is what happens during the entire month of October at these 63 wineries. The Wine and Wildflower Journey runs from March 27th to April 21st. Tickets are available online at www.TexasWineTrail.com. Wine tastings are limited to four wineries per day so you can savor each wine with your friends. These wine tastings should normally run about an hour and a half. I suggest taking a picnic lunch and/or dinner with you consisting of cheeses, deli meats, and assorted breads/crackers.
The Sam Houston Wine Trail consists of eight wineries in the Conroe-Huntsville area. The Trail Wineries will hold a traditional Blessing of the Vines in the next several weeks with information to be provided in upcoming wine columns.
The Rotary Club of Conroe is hosting a “Wine and Beer Tour” of the Lake Conroe Area for the month of March. Tasting are available at Bernhardt Winery, H-Winery, Cork This Tap That, B. E. Winery, Frankenboltzzzz, Hodge Podge Lodge, West Sandy Creek Winery, Fass Brewing, B52 Brewing, The Ferm Meadery, Copperhead Brewing, Southern Star Brewing, and Old Oak Taphouse, Tickets are $50 per adult and available through www.LakeConroeRotary.org.
Texas Restaurants Serving Texas Wines
Hungry’s Café and Bistro (two locations in Houston) proudly serves Becker Chardonnay and Becker Cabernet Sauvignon with their traditional and vegan menus. This upscale bistro will provide you outstanding local foods paired perfectly with these two Texas wines!
