The vineyard is beautiful this time of year, boasting vines

fully-loaded with luscious fruit.

 Perissos Vineyards invites you to join us for a complimentary vineyard tour.

 We are excited about what’s going on at Perissos! Come taste our passion as you learn about the intricacies of winegrape growing, and taste several of our varietals currently ripening on the vine.  In the recent 2012 Lone Star International Wine Competition, we submitted 6 wines and were awarded 6 medals (5 silvers and 1 bronze)!  Five of the six were estate grown.

 Tours will be held beginning June 22, and will run through harvest (around August 15th). Tours are by reservation only, with limited spaces. Tours last 20-40 minutes. Times are as follows:

 Fridays: 2:00 p.m.

Saturdays: 11:00 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.

Sundays: 2:00 p.m.

 For reservations, please call (512) 820-2950.

 We recommend you linger after your tour and come into the tasting room to sample our wines and enjoy a cheese tray. Or, bring your own picnic if you’d like!

 Wine tastings are $5 or $10.

Cheese Trays: $7

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What to do with all those empty bottles? If you throw away as many bottles as our winery does you might want an alternative to dumping those glass bottles in the trash. We all know what happens to the contents inside the bottles but this is a cool re-use for the bottles themselves. I took this photo from one of my favorite places at the old Sauer-Beckman farm on the LBJ ranch. The old timers used the old bottles for edging on their flower and herb beds. Pretty cool. I would love to do that at the winery but am afraid my kiddos would use the bottles for target practice and create all those sharp edges.

Yesterday we added our compost to the first 2100 of 12500 vines. We got the good @#&* from an organic dairy farmer in Stephenville. We’ll try to finish the first pass next week. It took some time to get into a rhythm but we are getting the bugs out of it. We just posted some photos. Cheers to all and Merry Christmas to all of you. Thanks for the love and support.