Kalasi Cellars
Nikhila Narra Davis grows all 140 acres of the fruit she bottles, and the wine Texas Monthly carried home from here was a teroldego.41
Why go
Narra Davis works with her husband Greg and is one of very few women in Texas who both grow and make; the fruit all comes from Narra Vineyards, the family's estate block in the High Plains, and nothing is bought in.4 On this stretch of highway that is unusual enough to be the reason to stop, because most tasting rooms here pour wine made from somebody else's grapes. The winery says it was the first in Texas to buy an optical sorter, which is a machine that throws out the fruit that would otherwise flatten a hot-climate red.4 The room sits on 16 acres half a mile off Main Street, with llamas on the property and the neighbor's sheep beyond the fence.2
Order this / avoid
- The teroldego. Paula Forbes called it robust and took a bottle home to Austin. It is a northern Italian red that copes with heat, which is the whole argument for planting it in Texas.1
- Anything estate, which here means everything.4
- The Winery Tour and Tasting if there are more than six of you. It takes up to ten and the main bar will not.2
- Avoid: turning up in perfume. The winery asks guests to skip it, and in a room this size that is a reasonable ask.2
What locals & experts say
- Texas Monthly, September 2025. Paula Forbes lists Kalasi among her twelve Hill Country wine picks and names
a robust teroldego from Kalasi
among the standouts she brought back.1 - The winery on its own fruit:
As a fully estate-grown winery, every bottle of Kalasi Cellars wine is crafted using grapes grown exclusively on our land.
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Good to know
- Hours: seven days, 11 to 5 Sunday through Thursday and 11 to 6 Friday and Saturday, as published on 20 August 2026. Closed New Year's Day, Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve and Christmas Day.2
- Groups: six at the main bar. Above that it is one tab with an automatic 20 percent, or a booked tour or private tasting.2
- Dogs and kids: dogs on the front patio, leashed and 300 feet clear of the llamas. Children are welcome and the property is a working farm with equipment on it.2
- Getting there: 414 Goehmann Lane, half a mile off Main Street and US-290. There are Tesla destination chargers and a J1772 plug in the car park.2
Verdict
could-visit — Kalasi farms every grape it bottles, which almost nobody on this highway does: 140 acres at Narra Vineyards in the High Plains, and Nikhila Narra Davis grows the fruit and makes the wine. Paula Forbes came home from the Hill Country with a teroldego from here and called it robust, and teroldego is an odd and welcome thing to find in Texas, a dark northern Italian red that likes heat. The winery says it was the first in the state to buy an optical sorter, which is its own claim, but it is the right kind of claim: sorting is where a hot-climate red stops tasting like raisins. The room sits half a mile off Main Street on 16 acres and takes six people at the bar, so it is a stop rather than a party. It stays at could-visit until somebody publishes more than one adjective about the wines.