Austin Wine Festival - Day 2

Day 2 of the wine fest was FABULOUS! We were able to use our wristbands from the previous day to get in again since we were rained out. We all decided to share our tastings, and a lot of them tasted great, but there were some clear winners. My absolute favorite was the Fall Creek muscat canelli - a sweet white wine that I kept going back to taste throughout the evening! Another favorite was the Messina Hof late harvest riesling - another super sweet fruity white. The Pedernales wines were also great, there was a viognier and tempranillo that were amazing. Surprisingly, there were a lot of tempranillos there, which is great since thats one of my favorite wines of the moment.

Halfway through, we were hungry and saw a couple people with cheese plates so of course had to seek that out. We got an $8 cheese plate with a blueberry cheddar, horseradish swiss, pecan blue, another blue, and a gouda. It also had some grapes and chocolate chips! It was so AMAZING and just what we needed with our glasses of wine - whoever had the idea to serve cheese plates there is a genius. 

About this time people started to leave, and surprisingly left their wine glasses strewn about! Not wanting to let them go to waste, I collected these abandoned glasses and added them to my collection :).

Another fun area was the Woodrose winery booth. The people apparently recognized us from when we went to visit their winery in Fredericksburg and gave us the VIP treatment letting us try "complimentary" half glasses of all their wines :). This was especially nice because their wine is simply delicious and also a little expensive so it was a nice treat. It was a great way to end the evening!

Overall I had a GREAT time at the 2009 Austin Wine Festival. I will definitely come back next year, and also plan on volunteering! I found out you can volunteer for just 4 hours taking tickets, pouring wine (!!!), etc and get a free day pass so I will definitely be involved in that!