The stars were many and bright today at San Gabriel Park in Georgetown, where a day-long event called Sunday Fair wrapped up the 23rd annual Texas Hill Country Wine & Food Festival. Inside three vast tents, signs heralded our familiar Texas foods and wines… Becker… Téo… Tito’s… Freixenet… Ecco Domani… Wait! Many of the names weren’t, in fact, from Texas at all! What gives?! From its website, the Festival’s mission statement reads:
The Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Festival brings together innovative culinary artisans and wine producers who celebrate the rich traditions that influence Texas wine and food. The Festival’s purpose is to promote Texas wine and food and to increase appreciation of Texas’ impact on food and wine throughout the world.
Other news:
-Jeffery Blank of Hudson’s on the Bend said, “We all need to buy local honey.” His cooking demonstration featured Round Rock Honey, venison from Broken Arrow Ranch in Ingram, and goat cheese from Pure Luck in Dripping Springs. He called the goat cheese “one of the best in the country.”
-Chad Auler, son of Ed & Susan Auler of Fall Creek Vineyards, presented his new, hand-crafted vodka, called Savvy. It’s distilled and bottled in Austin using corn grown in Texas and water that bubbles forth from the Auler family ranch. And it’s already available all over town.
-The Barnes family presented their Treaty Oak Rum, which they handcraft in Austin from all-Texas ingredients, like blackstrap molasses from the only sugar mill still operating in the state.
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