Texas Wine Tasting & Texas Vineyards
October 18, 2007
After a 21-day tour of the Bordeaux and Rhone regions of France, Susan and Ed Auler turned their Texas cattle ranch into a winery.
“We were the first ones to plant in the Hill Country in 1975,” Susan Auler says, referring to the land west of Austin. “We saw some growth early on. Soon there were three of us.” The real surge, she says, has occurred over the last five to 10 years. “The Hill Country has about 30 wineries and more coming on line all the time,” Auler says—and they’re attracting tourists. “I think our sales have been up 20 percent the last couple of years.”
The Aulers’ Fall Creek Vineyards is the third largest winery in Texas, producing 40,000 cases of 20 varietals annually. Hill Country has a proven track record with Chardonnay, Cabernet Sauvignon, and Malbec; and Fall Creek plans to make Tempranillo this year.
“We are certainly not shy people. We are can-do people,” Auler says of Texan winemakers. “We are concentrated, focused, and a convivial group of people; and perhaps that’s the best way to describe the wines.”
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