Shuttle Options
Along The 290 Wine Trail
290 Wine Shuttle has partnered with 18 of the best wineries and distilleries along the 290 Wine Trail to help you sip and savor your way through the Texas wine country in the most convenient, affordable, and fun way! Take a look at the wineries along our route listed in order of drop off.
MAIN WINERY ROUTE
Voted “Best Tasting Room” 2020, 2021, 2022, and “Best Winery” 2021, 2022, Texas Heritage Vineyard makes ALL their own wines with 100% Texas grapes. With over 59 medals for wines in just the last two years, including 6 Double-Golds and 13 Golds! High praise, but low-key Texas hospitality with a beautiful, hill country view off the back decks. Open seven days a week, with live music Fridays and Sundays. Please note, our last drop off at this location is at 2pm, and the last pickup is at 4pm.
The Resort at Fredericksburg has one of the largest wine production facilities in the state of Texas and boasts a 100% Texas-made wine selection. Their grapes are exclusively estate-grown deep in the heart of the Texas High Plains. From the stem of the vine to the stem of the glass, each The Resort at Fredericksburg wine is carefully crafted throughout the entire winemaking process. Please note, our last drop off at this location is at 3pm, and the last pickup is at 4:30pm.
Safari Winery is owned and operated by the Itz Family – whose ancestors date back to the very beginning of Fredericksburg’s establishment in the mid 1800s. They wanted to bring something new and exciting to the Texas Hill Country through their love for wine and adventure. The Swahili word “safari” translates to “journey”, and this is exactly what this winery is all about. Start your journey at Safari Winery and experience a curated collection of delicious and unique wines from South Africa and Chile.
Longhorn Cellars is a cozy, ranch-inspired winery complete with longhorn cattle and a legendary white donkey. Come sit on the patio or indoors and enjoy some true Texan hospitality. Saturdays often include live music and complimentary small bites to enjoy with award-winning wines. Longhorn Cellars’ wine selection is immense, specializing in dry white, rosé, and bold red wines.
Reservations required for parties of 6+
Barons Creek Vineyards is a beautiful Italian-styled winery with carefully curated wines from all over the USA. Their tasting room offers private tasting experiences for 2 to 20 customers. They also have overnight accommodations on the property that are well appointed and ready for any celebration. The outdoor Pavilion is a great place to enjoy live music around their large fountain and exquisite Italian villas.
Barons Creek Vineyards strives to provide each visitor with an experience that would make even the most discriminating nobility feel at home. They look forward to sharing their wines, winery, and vineyards with you and offer tastings to accommodate wine lovers of every distinction. Tastings are done seated at the tasting bar and there is a fee for five wines. You may choose your tasting between a reds-only flight or a mixed flight. Barons Creek uses corks with their bottles and tastings are poured from a measured pourer.
Our 1693 Distillery captures the unique richness, depth and complexity of local flavors and smooth taste. Seeking the Lone Star State’s promising life and land, our project’s Founder Stewart Lawrence Skloss’ fourth great-grandfather, Heinrich “Henry” Ochs, moved his family from Germany to Gillespie County in 1851. Henry established one of the first distilleries in Gillespie County and saloons in Fredericksburg. Originally called Buckhorn Whiskey, the family’s personal recipe, made from local harvest of course, was served at the popular local watering hole. We use the same hand-crafted recipe, known for its tried-and-true taste.
Sweetbriar Rose is a must-stop place for a healthy lunch on the 290 Wine Trail. The menu includes scratch-made bread and pastries, delicious and nutritious sandwiches and salads, a full espresso bar and flights of both craft beer and carefully selected wines from all over the world. When you visit Sweetbriar Rose, you’ll feel like family from the minute you arrive.
Reservations recommended
The premier working winery experience on Fredericksburg’s 290 Wine Trail, Grape Creek Vineyards welcomes you to its Tuscan-inspired tasting rooms. Taste award-winning wines amid beautifully landscaped patios, fountains, and terraces. Tour the estate vineyards and state-of-the-art winery, barrel room, and private tasting room. Enjoy on-site dining at the Trattoria. Grape Creek Vineyards – where wine is a pleasure, not a party.
Reservations are required
Heath Sparkling Wines is the first Texas winery completely dedicated to sparkling wines, sold exclusively through the winery and the new Heath Sparkling Wine Club. Located next to Grape Creek Vineyards, Heath Sparkling Wines showcases vintage sparkling wines in an architecturally stunning new tasting room featuring modern, clean lines and gorgeous vineyard views through uninterrupted windowscapes. The multi-sensory tasting experience includes a flight of sparkling wines, side by side, with a perfectly selected accompaniment, and virtual tour.
From the 1970s through the early 2010s, the Jones family specialized in oil. In 2017, they transitioned out of the unstable industry and launched a wedding venue, La Bonne Vie Ranch, in Fredericksburg. In 2018, they acquired Torre de Pietra on the 290 Wine Trail and idealized the illusion of a winery that challenged societal norms and created wines as complex as the human brain.
Located in the heart of Fredericksburg, Slate Theory Winery is an experimental winery that invites guests to “Fill Your Head” with a full-sensory experience that manifests in the form of psychologically stimulating wine. Sip on wine in their tasting room to the sounds of uncensored modern music, or explore individualized wine tastings in their underground wine cave.
Foyt Wine Collective’s mission is to produce small-lot wines of distinctive quality and character. Their grapes are crushed on site which gives them optimal control in the winemaking process. They use their vintages to pay tribute to A.J. Foyt and his incredible racing career. Each wine offering produced is labeled with a number and story that’s significant to A.J. Foyt’s career, either a car number or a year in which Foyt won an important race.
When you first arrive at Fat Ass Ranch & Winery, you’ll know immediately you are in Texas. The outside has a large seating area complete with the back of a bus with cushions, a contraption which looks like the moonshine still mentioned but has the end result of wine, tractor, men’s and women’s restrooms built from silos, and more. The outside décor continues inside the winery and you can tell the person responsible for it had a lot of fun with the theme and was very imaginative.
As you might expect, based on its cheeky name, Fat Ass Ranch & Winery is a laid-back establishment that emphasizes fun over formality. Their inventory is dominated by a wide array of sweet wines featuring strawberry, raspberry, peach, and watermelon flavor profiles. For a truly unique and unpretentious Texas wine-tasting experience, try this winery.
The owners of The Wine Garage paired their love for making exceptional Texas wines with their iconic collection of classic cars to bring you the most unique winery experience in Texas. Wine aficionados and car enthusiasts alike will be amazed by the attention to detail that puts this winery in a class of its own. Enjoy 100% dry Texas wines while viewing a collection of museum-quality cars at The Wine Garage.
The patio area at Texas Wine Collective is sunny and beautiful and there are a variety of wines available. Depending on what type of wine you enjoy, you will receive a curated list of wines to choose from. For Texas Wine Collective members, there are quarterly wine pick-up parties with live music and complimentary hot food. Please note, our last drop off at this location is at 4pm.
Reservations recommended for parties of 10+
The Tasting Room at Messina Hof Hill Country showcases its immense wine selection suitable for any palate. Among these award-winning wines, there is a reserve selection of ultra-premium and exclusive Messina Hof Hill Country wines that are available only at this winery location. Visitors can also shop for all their wine accessories, personalized labels, gifts, and apparel. Messina Hof combines decades of winemaking and hospitality experience in the production of award-winning wines.
You’ll find nods to the property’s rich history all around you when you come to Blumenthal. A cotton farming community established by two brothers, Blumenthal Farms features the original saloon and dance hall turned general store – built by the brothers for their parents to enjoy. Step back in time, but do it their way: as part of a community dedicated to the Hill Country, new and old.
Located along the 290 Wine Trail, Fiesta Winery brings you superior wine full of love from their family to yours. Overall, a sweet fruity fun 100% Texan winery located on the 290 Wine Road in the Historic Rocky Hill Complex. This location is one of three tasting rooms for Fiesta Winery. One is located in Bend, Texas. They have another Fredericksburg location on downtown Main Street among the shops and art galleries.
To get to the tasting room, you walk through an inviting, tree-shaded, outdoor patio with cozy, colorful chairs awaiting you to sit back and relax. The tasting room itself is spacious and inviting and the tasting menu is quite large and divided up into white wines, blush wines, sparkling wines, and red wines. Fiesta Winery also has delicious dark chocolate, liquor-filled, sugar-coated chocolates made with their Sweet Dreams wine.
Barelle Vineyards was created to showcase and elevate women-wine-makers from Texas and abroad. Each uniquely crafted wine shows off the wine-makers skill at bringing all the elements of art and science to your palette. Enjoy a glass or bottle in their un-pretentious and relaxed atmosphere that their team creates for our visitors every day!
A very unique Texas wine experience consisting of six award-winning Texas wineries in one location, the historic Rocky Hill School complex. You can enjoy your wine tastings in an old tobacco barn brought in from Tennessee, which is beautiful and rustic, with a very historical background. In addition to the regular wines, they have meads and frozen wine-a-ritas for the person who wants to enjoy a tasty frozen beverage on a hot day. Blue Lotus Winery and Texas Mead Works became valued suppliers and colleagues in early 2017, and Copper Star Cellars joined in during the summer of 2017. Blue Lotus and Copper Star both source all of their grapes from either their own grape vines or from other Texas growers. Six Shooter Cellars also has a party room on the south side of the store that can easily accommodate up to 30 persons.
BONUS WINERY ROUTE
Exclusive to Bonus Winery Route
Invention Vineyards’ winery and tasting room feature sweeping views of 35 acres of working vineyards and the hillsides beyond. Guided tastings and estate tours are offered Thursday – Monday. Invention Vineyards (formerly Slate Mill Collective) was recently acquired by Heath Family Brands, which includes Grape Creek Vineyards and Heath Sparkling Wines.
Winery Locations
✭ Inn on Barons Creek
- Texas Heritage Vineyard
- The Resort at Fredericksburg
- Safari Winery
- Longhorn Cellars
- Barons Creek Vineyards
- 1693 Distillery
- Sweetbriar Rose
- Grape Creek Vineyards
- Heath Sparkling Wines
- Slate Theory Winery
- Foyt Wine Collective
- Fat Ass Ranch & Winery
- The Wine Garage
- Texas Wine Collective
- Messina Hof
- Bluementhal Farms
- Fiesta Winery and Barelle Vineyards
- Six Shooter Cellars
Bonus Winery Route
1. Invention Vineyards
JOHNSON CITY WINERY ROUTE
The roots of Lost Draw spread deep within the Hill Country and as far as the High Plains of Texas. In the early 2000s, High Plains-based farmer Andy Timmons decided to diversify his agricultural operations to include grape growing at the original Lost Draw site. His nephew, Andrew Sides, worked for the family farming operation and helped to expand the vineyards from 5 acres to over 50. Andrew would go on to Texas Tech to study engineering, but his passion for grape growing never faded, and a few years after graduating, made the decision to pursue a career as a winemaker. At the time, Andrew’s father-in-law Troy Ottmers owned historic land in downtown Fredericksburg that wasn’t in use. Andrew and his uncle Andy had Texas grapes to make and sell wine with. Everything came together and Lost Draw produced its first vintage in 2012 and opened its tasting room doors for the first time in 2014. This accomplishment would happen again in 2022 when Lost Draw’s second tasting room opened in Johnson City. Lost Draw’s aim is to grow and share the best wines that can be made using Texas-grown grapes and provide an education-driven wine-tasting experience. In addition to their estate vineyards, the team partners with some of the best vineyards in the state as a way of supporting Texas farmers.
Old 290 Brewery brews local Texas craft beer featuring pints, pitchers, growlers and crowler cans. Old 290 Brewery & Restaurant combines Hill Country craft beer with hearty, Texas-inspired cuisine. This gastropub-style restaurant emphasizes fresh, locally sourced ingredients, along with their craft beer and our award-winning wines from Carter Creek Winery. Reservations are available on OpenTable.com, walk ins welcome.
Over the last decade, William Chris has expanded their estate vineyards and partnered with family-owned farms across the state to source only the highest quality fruit in Texas. In 2022 and 2023, William Chris Vineyards was named a “World’s Best Vineyard”, the first Texas winery to receive the recognition. With an intention to express the genuine taste of Texas terroir through their wines while delivering a one-of-a-kind, world-class experience, William Chris utilizes a hands-off winemaking approach, allowing the characteristics of the fruit, the vineyard or AVA, and the vintage to shine in the finished product.
Winery Locations
✭ Old Annex Market
- Lost Draw Johnson City
- Carter Creek Winery & Old 290 Brewery
- 290 Wine Castle
- Vinovium
- Untamed Wine Estates
- William Chris Vineyards
- Garrison Brothers Distillery
- Hye Meadow Winery and Vineyard
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