Harvest Wine Trail Aug 14-16 & 21-23 2009

2009 Harvest Wine Trail Only a few days left until the excitement begins... August 14-16 and 21-23, 2009 We hope you've made your plans to join us for the 2009 Harvest Wine Trail, August 14-16 and 21-23, and enjoy a wealth of opportunities to immerse yourself in the experience and lifestyle of harvest. The trail begins this Friday so it's time to purchase your tickets now! Tell us your personal wine or harvest experiences and win Trail Tickets! VintageTexas would like to hear more about your first grape harvest, wine making experiences, or winery visit. A lot of you have backyard/garage wine making stories or ones about your great-grandparents. TWO sets of Harvest Wine Trail tickets will be given away. Deadline for submission of your Texas wine experience comments is Tuesday, August 11, 2009. The comments submitted will be reviewed the winners will be selected to receive a set of two tickets. The winners will be notified by email on August 12th. To tell your story and for more details, visit VintageTexas. For more details on the Harvest Wine Trail or to purchase your tickets please visit Texas Hill Country Wineries. Enjoy the festivities, taste your favorites, enjoy exclusive discounts and take home the memories of harvest in the Texas Hill Country. Tickets available NOW, visit our website TODAY! www.TexasWineTrail.com

August @ Chisolm Trail Winery looks like fun

Saturday, August 8^th- Chisholm Trail Winery will be participating in the Gillespie Country Fairground's 1^st Annual Wine Tasting with 9 other wineries to be held in conjunction with the Gillespie County Horseracing meet from 1-6 pm. Come out to taste several of our wonderful wines and meet owner and winemaker Paula Williamson. Taste wine and have fun at the horse races - what a great combination! Entry fee is $5.00.

August 14-16 and 21-23 is the Harvest Trail! Get your $35.00 ticket at TexasWineTrail.com. You will receive a keepsake book for wine labels and notes and be entitled to 15% off the selected wine trio of each winery. Our trio will be Texas Reds - Lone Wolf, Diablo, and Silver Spur. The discount for ticket holders is a savings of over $12.00 at just our winery! This is a great time to get started on your holiday wine purchases.

Friday, August 21. Come see us in the parade in downtown Fredericksburg starting at 10:00AM. Then dance the afternoon away at the winery to the great country-western tunes of Lonnie Lett from 2-5PM. Don't forget to attend the Gillespie County Fair and their outdoor evening dance.

Saturday night, August 29 we are having our first evening country-western dance at the winery. Lonnie Lett will entertain you will great country-western dance music from 7PM to 10PM. Admission is $5.00 per person. Please remember that no outside alcohol is allowed on the winery premises by state law.

ALSO.....mark your September calendar for our Grape Stomp, Saturday, September 5 from 2-5PM with live music.

Wine Highlights in Fredericksburg

The verve of the wine industry in The Texas Hill Country begins each year in August with the birth of the next vintage. We invite you to savor the sight, sound, smell and taste of Harvest with the Texas Hill Country Wineries. Make your plans to join us for the 2009 Harvest Wine Trail, August 14-16 and 21-23, and enjoy a wealth of opportunities to immerse yourself in the experience and lifestyle of harvest. -->

This year ticket holders will be able to add to their wine experience by collecting wine labels and taking notes on your favorite wines from each participating winery in a one-of-a-kind Texas Hill Country Wineries case bound label and wine notes book. Harvest Wine Trail is the launch of the Wine Trail Promotions. During the trails each winery will offer a hand-picked 3 bottle selection carefully chosen for the season at a 15% discount to Wine Trail ticket holders only. Ticket prices are $35.00 per person and good for Fri-Sun of both weekends. Label books will be available for pick up at your choice of designated winery or can be mailed to you direct from THCW. Please designate which one of the delivery options you would like, pickup or mailing. For pickup, choose one of the 24 participating wineries where you would like to receive your label book. For mailing, please allow 3-5 business days. If you are buying your tickets on the Wednesday before the trail or once the trail has begun, the mailing option will not work for you. NOTE: Books left at home cannot be replaced or re-fulfilled upon arrival to the wineries. One book per ticket only.

It's 6:00am in the Texas Hill Country wine region. The air is brisk, the only time all day. The vineyards are peaceful and quite, the sounds of tractors echo over the grapes. The commotion begins...work boots crunch the cool soil, cluster stems snap under the knife, a gentle pattering of grapes as they tumble into buckets and the roar of pickers, winemakers and owners laughing. Their labor of love has truly begun! Harvest is the season when wineries bring to the forefront those rarely seen vineyard and crush activities for wine enthusiasts to appreciate. Ticket holders traverse the twenty-four participating wineries sprinkled throughout the Hill Country debuting exciting new wines, watching and learning vineyard practices in motion, taking part in wine seminars or jumping feet first into a two ton grape stomp. The wine trail weekends are yours to plan...no need to start at 6am with the harvest though.
Enjoy the festivities, taste your favorites, enjoy exclusive discounts and take home the memories of harvest in the Texas Hill Country. Tickets available NOW, visit our website TODAY!

www.TexasWineTrail.com

This weekend: Let's Chili for wine?

Event
When:
07.25.2009

Event title
Chili and Chillin'
Where:
Fredericksburg Wine Road 290 Wineries - Fredericksburg, Texas
Category:
Wine Trail Event

Event description:
Chili and Chillin'
What a perfect combination - Texas chili or Southwestern chiles and a chilled, perfectly matched Texas wine! Music, frivolity and palate pleasing fare. Come visit the Fredericksburg Wine Road 290 wineries!
What: Chili and Chillin'. Food tastings provided by top local restaurants.
When: Saturday, 7/25/2009
Hours (Hours and/or contact info available by clicking links to each winery)
Where: All of the nine Fredericksburg Wine Road 290 wineries
Cost: There is no additional cost for this event. Regular winery tasting fees would still apply and vary by winery.

Celebrate the 4th in the Hill Country

Simply too much to list in a blog. Go to the Fredericksburg Chamber website http://aplaceintime.travel/events.htm to see the complete listing of events.
We're starting it out right with dinner at the Hill Top Cafe http://www.hilltopcafe.com/ with friends.

Another favorite would be the 4th parade at 10am on Saturday.

Do you have any other suggestions?

June 19-20 Happenings

•It’s Stonewall Peach JAMboree weekend! A kickoff breakfast opened activities this morning at 6:30 a.m. Tonight there’s sign-up for mutton busting and the first heat of that always-fun competition at 7:30 p.m., an introduction of the Peach Queen candidates at 7:45 p.m., the rodeo at 8 p.m. and a dance starting at 9:30 p.m. Tomorrow the parade begins at 10 a.m., barbecue goes on sale at 11 a.m. and that’s also when music and activities get underway (antique tractors, washer pitching, armadillo races and beauty pageant, peach eating and spitting contests, peach queen contest and more). The new queen will be crowned Saturday at 7:15 p.m. followed by the rodeo at 8 p.m. and a dance at 9:30 p.m.

New wineries in the Hill Country

If you haven't had a chance go to the new website for Hill Country Wine Trail: http://www.texaswinetrail.com/index.html