Texas Hill Country Wine and Food Foundation

Four stars to the vendors, two to the City! We bought our $ 15 tickets and checked the festival’s website for the schedule. Seeing that it ran til nine, we headed out like eager wine-​swillin’ beavers and arrived at 4:30. Good thing we have nothing against day drinking.
As it turned out, the wine tasting shut down way before schedule, which pretty much shut down the whole festival. The story we got from one of the vendors was this: Vendors paid for the booth, but the City bought all the wine– then mandated that the free flowin booze cease and desist at 6:30. I don’t know if the vendors ran dry, but the crowds sure dried up fast after that.
In addition, the crafts were for the most part mediocre, and food options were pretty limited. We did pick up a good bottle of wine, and it was fun to get to know some of the local wineries. If you go, just plan on being early!