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Hill Country Harvest Wine Trail

Thursday, August 4th, 2011
Grape Harvest

Celebrate the grape harvest in the Texas Hill Country.

The end of the grape growing season in the Texas Hill Country is celebrated the weekends of August 5-7 and August 12-14 with the 2011 Harvest Wine Trail. This is a great time to tour vineyards, meet vintners, and taste wine. Hill Country Texas Bed and Breakfasts welcome oenophiles!

The grape harvest is traditionally a celebratory event. It’s hard work, to be sure, and it needs to be completed in a timely manner. Everyone lends a hand, from farm hands to farm owners. This is when the most exciting aspect of wine making occurs – the crush – and folks on the 2011 Harvest Wine Trail will be well placed to witness it.

Each winery visit includes 1 to 3 complimentary tastes of wine and a 15% discount on certain purchases of three bottles or more. When you purchase your ticket, you’ll also receive a gift of Kerrygold cheeses. Pick it up at the winery of your choice and bring it with you as you taste, for nothing compliments wine quite like smooth, flavorful cheese.

There are nine Texas wineries in and around Fredericksburg, making Fredericksburg an ideal choice of lodging while you enjoy the 2011 Harvest Wine Trail. Yet there are Hill Country Texas Bed and Breakfasts throughout the area, in Comfort, Boerne, Marble Falls, Dripping Springs, Wimberley, and elsewhere. Many are close to at least one of the wineries on the trail. Use one as a base, or wander from one Texas Bed and Breakfast to the next.

Additional information about the Harvest Wine Trail is available at Texas Hill Country Wineries.

27 wineries participate in the Harvest Wine Trail. Please pace yourself or have a designated driver.

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The Old Spanish Trail in Texas

Saturday, January 22nd, 2011

The Old Spanish Trail once ran from St. Augustine, Florida, to San Diego, California. It was created to be the shortest route between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, and the southernmost transcontinental highway. It took fifteen years to complete, as work was often hampered by difficult geographic conditions such as rivers and swamplands, but it finally opened for travel in 1929. Today, Interstate 10 largely follows the old OST, although it begins in Santa Monica, CA, and ends in Atlantic Beach, FL.

One third of the Old Spanish Trail runs through Texas – from swamps by the Sabine River in East Texas to deserts west of El Paso. Some of the best preserved parts of the OST are found in Central Texas and the Texas Hill Country. A great way to craft an itinerary is to travel sections of the Old Spanish Trail, staying in comfortable Texas Bed and Breakfasts along the way. (more…)

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Get Comfortable in Comfort

Friday, October 22nd, 2010

Comfort is a charming, historic town in the Hill Country of Texas. It is less than an hour northwest of San Antonio and just over an hour west of Austin. There is much to do and see in and around this town, so we recommend making yourself comfortable at a Comfort Texas bed and breakfast.

Indeed, architecture buffs may never want to leave. Comfort is said to have one of the most well-preserved historic business districts in all of Texas. Buildings date back to the mid 1800s, when the town was first settled by German immigrants. It is interesting to note that many of the first settlers were Freethinkers, and that the first churches in Comfort were not established until 1900.

Several of the old buildings in town were designed by Alfred Giles, a well-respected architect based in San Antonio. Ask your Comfort bed and breakfast innkeepers to point out his buildings, and enjoy wandering through town in search of them. Some blocks are truly reminiscent of another era.

Head to Comfort Texas for historic architecture, antiques, and wine tasting.

Comfort, texas, originally uploaded by extension 504.

Comfort features many antique shops. Allow time to poke around in them and speak with the shop keepers. Many people in town are directly descended from the early settlers, and they are full of interesting stories about the town’s history.

Enjoy wine tasting at the three Texas Hill Country Wineries in Comfort, as well as the good cooking at the eateries in town. Like we said, you may be so comfortable in Comfort that you won’t want to leave.

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