Texas wine country
The US-290 wine corridor · 10 stops · 2 legs · 10 with pages
One highway carries most of the tasting rooms on the saved list, from Driftwood out to Fredericksburg.
Most of the tasting rooms on Jeff's Texas wine list sit on one stretch of US-290 between Hye and Fredericksburg. Driftwood sits at the near end, off a different road, and fits the same day.
These rooms show up here and on their own town pages.
Bending Branch and Singing Water are on the same saved list and sit an hour southwest in Comfort, so they take their own drive. The Fredericksburg tasting room at Serrano Wine has closed.
Driftwood1
The near end of the run, out on Ranch Road 150 rather than the highway.
Duchman Family Winery?
Listed · Texas wine · Driftwood · $$
walk-in
Two doctors decided Texas weather behaved like Italy's, so they planted a winery around Vermentino, Sangiovese and Dolcetto.
West on US-2909
Hye, Stonewall and the eastern edge of Fredericksburg, strung along one stretch of highway.
Ron Yates Wines?
Listed · Texas wine · Hye · $$
book ahead
Seven generations of Yates have worked Texas land, and this one put a wood-fired pizza oven in the tasting room on US-290.
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.
French Connection Wines?
Listed · Texas wine · Hye · $$
book ahead
Benjamin Calais makes the mourvèdre here off Dell Valley vines planted in 1976, and calls the red blend Châteauneuf de Hye.
William Chris Vineyards?
Solid · Texas wine · Hye · $$
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.
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 · $$
book aheadthe room’s own account
Dan Gatlin planted 22 vinifera varieties in Denton County in 1981 to find out what Texas could ripen, and forty years later the answer is Tempranillo.
Kalasi Cellars?
Listed · Texas wine · Fredericksburg · $$
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.
Where this came from
Drawn from Jeff's saved places, checked August 2026.