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Hill Country wineries have their own ways

 
Josh Noel | Published: July 5, 2009    Comment on this article Leave a comment

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas — At Dry Comal Creek Vineyards and Winery, in the Texas Hill Country, there’s a recommendation for how to try the 2008 sauvignon blanc.

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Take a small sip and swallow. Then scoop some habanero jelly onto a cheap cracker, chew, sip the rest of the wine and swallow the whole mess.

Sure enough, it is delicious — sweet, spicy and salty, finished with a bright, dry alcoholic flourish. But wouldn’t that make the French wince?

"Yeah, they wouldn’t like it one bit,” said David King, 50, the bushy-haired redhead pouring samples in Dry Comal’s quaint, low-ceilinged tasting room. "But it’s a flavor combination we discovered a long time ago. Quite tasty.”

They do things their own way at Hill Country wineries.

Fifteen years ago there were a handful of Hill Country wineries; now there are more than 60. Because the dirt is shallow and rocky, few grow all their own grapes, and some grow none, buying from farmers elsewhere in Texas or some other Western state.

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