Weekend re-cap: winery goings and doings

Last week seemed to go on forever...so by the time we got to Saturday morning, I made it a point to get moving early enough in the day so that we could head to Burnet and eat breakfast at El Rancho.  Afterwards, we did a few smallish projects at Highlands.  I can't even remember what we did for lunch...

But for dinner, we headed to the wine club pick-up party at Torr Na Lochs for sunset views, hot dogs, popcorn, theater candy...

 

 ...and of course, wine.

I haven't had hot dogs that good in a loooong time.  Everything tasted great!

The movie was pretty cheesey {A Walk in the Clouds}, but the breezes were blowing, owls were hooting, and the evening was quite relaxing.  One of the best pick-up parties we've gone to at this winery or anywhere!  We were back home to Highlands by 10 p.m. and though I tried to stay awake in my lawn chair, enjoying the cool breezes and stargazing, I pooped out by 11.  But so did Hubby!

 

The next day after lunch we headed to Wedding Oak - since it is on our way out of town it will likely be a regular stop off on Sunday afternoons.

The views from the second story lounge look out over the booming metropolis of Burnet.

And there is a "members only" lounge downstairs that we relaxed in for quite a while, until the friendly owner happened by.  Hubby and he talked each others' ears off for a bit.  Turns out Hubby won a bottle of wine in the drawing they held on the last pick-up event. (do you not LOVE the tiled floor?  Beautiful!)

 

Score!  He gave us a bottle of 2015 Tempranillo Reserva to take home.  On the way, we may or may not have stopped off at yet another winery...and we joined their wine club, which I have some remorse about.  But they have delightful wine, delish charcuterie, and the friendliest owners ever.  Plus, it doesn't hurt that they have chairs on a breezy yard underneath giant oaks overlooking a vineyard.  And each time we visit, we enjoy a complimentary glass of wine.  So, we have staked our spot out.  

We enjoyed a bottle of Alicante Bouchet - a new fav - then headed home to meet up with Firstborn so I could cut his hair.  We tried to get him to stay for dinner, but he had already eaten so we made plans to take him and his new girlfriend (haven't got an alias for her yet) to La Grange in a couple of weeks.  Its shaping up to be a fun Fall, full of going and doing on the weekends!

Gina