A day out to Fredericksburg
Fredericksburg · 9 stops · 2 legs · 8 with pages
US-290 west through Hye and Stonewall, and Main Street at the end of it.
US-290 runs west through Hye and Stonewall before it reaches Fredericksburg. The tasting rooms sit out on the highway, and Main Street is where you go once you arrive.
Every stop on the highway now has a write-up. Cafe Dimona on Main Street is a saved pin with an address and nothing written yet, so call before you drive.
West on US-2907
Hye and Stonewall are two small towns on one highway, and most of these stops sit on that stretch.
CALAIS Winery?
Solid · Texas wine · Hye · $$
booking essential
Benjamin Calais dug his winery into the side of a hill outside Hye, and both tastings happen down in the cave, four people at a time.
Garrison Brothers Distillery?
Listed · Bourbon · Hye · $$
book aheadthe room’s own account
Every bottle is milled, cooked, distilled, barreled and aged on the Hye ranch, and volunteers hand-dip each one in wax in the bottling room you walk through.
William Chris Vineyards?
Solid · Texas wine · Hye · $$
book ahead
Bill Blackmon has grown Texas grapes since the eighties. The red he and Chris Brundrett blend in Hye is named Enchanté, after Enchanted Rock up the road.
Chocolates El Rey?
Listed · Chocolate · Stonewall · $
walk-in
A Venezuelan chocolate maker founded in 1929 keeps its US operation on Ranch Road 1623 in Stonewall, selling 73.5 percent Apamate discos by the three-pound bag.
Pedernales Cellars?
Solid · Texas wine · Stonewall · $$
book ahead
The Aletheia rosé is mourvèdre and grenache off certified organic acreage in Seminole. Paula Forbes says it beats the same winery's rosé made from non-organic fruit.
Hilmy Cellars - Vineyards, Winery & Tasting Room?
Listed · Texas wine · Fredericksburg · $$
book aheadthe room’s own account
Erik Hilmy picked this ground in 2008, farmland on heavy clay outside Fredericksburg, and planted it.
Inwood Estates Vineyards Winery & Bistro?
Listed · Texas wine · Fredericksburg · $$
book aheadthe room’s own account
Dan Gatlin planted 22 vinifera varieties in Denton County in 1981 to find out what Texas could ripen, and forty years later the answer is Tempranillo.
Main Street2
Fredericksburg itself, where the saved list holds a winery just off Main Street and one restaurant on it.
Kalasi Cellars?
Listed · Texas wine · Fredericksburg · $$
book ahead
Nikhila Narra Davis grows all 140 acres of the fruit she bottles, and the wine Texas Monthly carried home from here was a teroldego.
Cafe Dimona
FredericksburgHill Country~120 min west of Austin
607 S Washington St, Fredericksburg, TX 78624
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Where this came from
Drawn from Jeff's saved places, checked August 2026.