☆Winery Tour - The Austin Winery

The Austin Winery was such a fun and different experience and a perfect alternative from the winery which I had planned to go to originally. Originally, a friend and I were going to the Spicewood Vineyard in Spicewood, Texas, just slightly outside of Austin, but because of weather we had to find a quick alternative! This urban winery outside of downtown Austin was such a fun and different vibe than I was expecting.

The winery was filled with barrels and fermenting tanks of the Austin Vineyards specialty wines! My friend and I chose the $20 for 4 tasting glasses option so that we could get a good feel of the place and the wines. To order wines there was a walk up bar area with a very wine intelligent man who worked for the winery, who answered all our questions, gave us recommendations and showed us all of the different bottles they had!

The four tasting wines which I chose were the Violet Crown, Malbec, Cinsault, and the Hill Country Rosso. We tried two at a time and had an amazing charcuterie plate with multiple different cheeses and some meat and bread as well. I actually really loved having all of these new cheeses and unique meat to pair with the wines and thought it really added to the experience which my friend and I had.

Talking about experience, I thought this was such a fun vibe and a unique thing to do with friends. My best friend and I which I went to the winery with, has been my friend since we were about 5 years old so we have truly done so many different things in Austin for fun. Going to a winery was something we had not tried yet and it really reinforced in me how great of a social thing wine is. We sat in the winery for over 2 hours just chatting and enjoying the wine!

The Hill Country Russo was my absolute favorite! It was a floral and jammy red wine and it was made to go with charcuterie! This wine is a blend of red and white grapes including Tempranillo, Malbec, Cinsault, Trebbiano, and Malvasia Blanca!

This winery was founded in 2014 and is the very first full production grape to glass winery in Austin! The man who gave us all the information and poured our tasting glasses was Cooper Anderson, the head winemaker at the Austin Winery!

The winery was such a great environment with a nice atmosphere, there were young adults, families, older couples and even a man with a dog! There was a real openness about the people, place and the making of the wine!