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Get a jump start on your holiday gift giving by touring the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail, Holiday Crystal Wine Trail on December 4-5 and December 11-12, 2010. Your trail ticket allows you to enjoy two specially-selected wine tastings, paired with a terrific holiday food sample at each winery on the trail. As an added bonus, have your ticket stamped at five of the participating trail wineries and receive the second in a series of commemorative keepsake crystal wine glass. These 24-ounce Bordeaux glasses feature the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail logo.

This holiday trail package, worth almost $70 per person, is yours for the low single ticket price of $25, plus tax or $45 for a Ticket-for-Two, plus tax. You have four days, on the first two weekends in Decembe, to use your ticket and visit 10 great wineries along the Texas Bluebonnet Wine Trail. The food and wine pairings for the wineries are listed below. We will continue to update as more information becomes available.  

Bernhardt Winery: Christmas Pasta Salad paired with Pinot Grigio and Pinnelli.

Colony Cellars: Butter fried, rolled roast beef with olives & cheese paired with Random Harvest Red.

Cork This! Winery: Holiday meatballs paired with Blonde Sauvignon Blanc and Signature Red Cabernet Franc

Messina Hof Winery: Raspberry Chipotle Cheese ball paired with Barrel Reserve Tex-Zin and Sophia Marie Rose’.

Pleasant Hill Winery: Black olive Tapanade and cream cheese on baguette slices paired with Collina Bianca, followed by 2008 Sangiovese.

Retreat Hill Winery & Vineyard: Slow-smoked pork tenderloin, rubbed with Extra Virgin Olive Oil, garlic and fresh rosemary, paired with Chardonay and XOXO Dry Rose’.

Retreat Hill Cellars: Tamales with Klien Brothers Fire-roasted salsa and Klien Brothers Loco cheese dip paired with soon-to-be released Dulce Blanco and Dulce Rojo.

Saddlehorn Winery: Coconut Chicken Curry Balls paired with Happy Trails - Reisling Blend and
Barn Red - Cabernet/Syrah/Zinfindel Blend

Texas Star Winery: Banana-Nut Bread paired with Prickly Pear Cactus Wine and 17K Chérie (Prickly Pear Cactus Sherry)

Windy Winery: Sweet meats and Tahini paired with Merlot and Brenham Blush