Art related events at Salado Winery

Holiday Hours 2015

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Hopefully #winerycat doesn’t knock over the tree!

  • Thursday, December 24, 12-4 pm
  • Friday, December 25, closed
  • Saturday, December 26, 12-6 pm
  • Sunday, December 27, 12-6 pm
  • Monday, December 28, 12-6 pm
  • Tuesday, December 29, 12-6 pm
  • Wednesday, December 30, 12-6 pm
  • Thursday, December 31, 12-6 pm
  • Friday, January 1, 12-6 pm
  • Saturday, January 2, 12-6 pm

Art Opening Reception with Patty Thomas – October 10th

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It’s officially fall! Join us on Saturday, October 10th from 1pm – 7pm when Patty Thomas will be on hand to discuss her newest artworks.  She was selected for the next exhibition at the winery to showcase and celebrate Central Texas and the beauty of fall.

Ms. Thomas, a Temple resident, studied art at the Texas Schools of Fine Arts in Austin and graduated with a degree in fine arts from Abilene Christian University. She has owned a graphic design company, painted furniture and murals, and sold her paintings in galleries. Ms. Thomas loves to paint Central Texas landscapes that highlight big skies, winding roads, and beautiful views of our area. As she puts it, “Today we seem to be caught in such busy, every-minute-filled lifestyles. My paintings are intended to move us toward a calmer, less stressful pace for everyday living.” You can see her artwork at www.pattythomasfineart.com. 

The winery gallery will be filled with Ms. Thomas’s artwork, available for sale until the end of December. Of course, we’ll have plenty of wine open for tasting and savoring. We’ll also be debuting our newest release, the 2014 Big Bully. The 2014 vintage, a Tempranillo-Malbec blend, was grown in Temple and will be bottled earlier in the week.

Gaze, Nosh and Peruse–July 2nd, 6-9 pm

hop on by for a great summer evening!

hop on by for a great summer evening!

Art Opening Reception for John Davis, a visit from the gnomadic fashion truck, and an extra special wine tasting paired with some great food from Classic Events. A great summer evening filled with art, fashion, wine, food and of course, fun!

John Davis is a resident of Salado and friends with the owners of Salado Winery.  He was chosen to be featured in the winery gallery because his art reflects the eclecticism of the new businesses and artists that are redefining Salado.  John Davis says,

English is my second language after Art. I can express wordless ideas and places by creating them on a two dimensional surface. The illusion of the multi-dimensional world created on a flat plane is fascinating. Depth with all its mystery sparks my enthusiasm for creating space and filling it with artful shapes.

Artists like Max Earnst , Claes Oldenburg and Dr Suess are inspirational to me as are Silver Age Comic greats like James F. “Jim” Steranko, Jack Kirby and John Buscema . Influenced by Richard Scary, Mad Magazine and Science Fiction my art has evolved into what I like to call visual stream of consciousness.  In creating a piece, I want to fill the canvas with imagery and action to draw viewers in for close inspection that requires more than one visit. Using pencil, pen, brushes, spray paint and collage I encourage viewers to explore and discover personal messages via nostalgic icons of film, Americana or pop culture iconography”.

In addition to meeting the artist, a special food and wine pairing will be offered. The food will be prepared by Classic Catering.  The chef and his staff have carefully crafted a menu to pair with select Salado Winery wines. Tickets are available for $24.95 at www.saladowinery.com.

 

Food and wine pairing tickets

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Art Opening with John P. Davis Art

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Art Opening Reception with John Davis.
Chat with the artist and view his work!
Gourmet food and wine tastings, including barrel tastings of our newest releases.
Special appearance by gnomadic fashion truck!

Invite your friends! FB event at https://www.facebook.com/events/386481414879365/

A Painted House a Day – Christy Tremblay art opening

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Join us on Saturday, January 24th, 2015, from 5-8 pm, when Christy Tremblay will be on hand to discuss her art show “A Painted House a Day“.  Ms. Tremblay, a mixed media artist,  was selected for the next exhibition at the winery due to her unique perspective on military life.

Christy just completed an art challenge, A Painted House A Day. Her goal was to create with paint and mixed media one house image a day, for 183 days. She completed 183 Painted Houses from March 2014 to September 2014.

A Northwest native, Ms Tremblay has taught in Korea and visited cities, rural areas and islands in Southeast Asia. She started using the imagery of houses in her art about four years ago when she and her family were living on Fort Bliss in El Paso, TX. They had a historical Bungalow with a lot of charm.  She says, ” Growing up I had two houses I called ‘home.’ As an adult and with a family of my own, I have had many houses to make a home. My husband is Active Duty Army and we move often.  Although a move comes with work and saying goodbyes, we embrace each move and look forward to our new adventures, people to meet, and places to explore. Houses are houses. A home is for a family to create safety, love, and memories. As I make each move with my two daughters and husband, I find our locations and houses to change, but our home stays the same.”

The Salado Winery gallery will be filled with Ms. Tremblay’s artwork, which will be available for sale throughout the spring.  Wines produced on the premise will be available for savoring as folks view and purchase these local art treasures.

For more information, read Christy’s blog!

Gnomadic Fashion Truck coming to Salado Winery!

4-7 pm Friday, December 12, 2014 out in front of the winery will be the GNOMADIC FASHION TRUCK! A fun evening of dressing up, drinking wine and enjoying the season.  Come out for #TxWine, #SaladoStroll and #FashionWithImpact

Central Texas Wineries Offer Hill Country Alternative

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KCEN, the local NBC station just did 2 stories on wine in Central Texas!  Click on the link below and the first video features wineries near Waco, while the 2nd video mentions the Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest along with a quote from yours truly!

Central Texas Wineries Offer Hill Country Alternative.

kcentv.com – KCEN HD – Waco, Temple, and Killeen

(KCEN) – Forget Hill Country; central Texas has plenty to offer to wine drinkers. 

“It’s been an education,” said Cathy Endres of Harker Heights. We talked to her at the sixth annual Texas Wine and Rogue Art Festival in Salado in March.

“I didn’t even know we had central Texas vineyards,” she said. “It’s not really the place you’d think we have them.”

That’s one of the biggest difficulties for wineries here — just getting the word out. 

“A lot of people don’t expect Salado and this area to have wineries that can compare to Fredericksburg,” said Stephen Clifton with Dancing Bee Winery.

Dancing Bee, outside of Rogers, makes mead — honey wine. 

“It’s for that sweet wine drinker,” Clifton said. “The moscato drinkers tend to really like our wines.”

And we’re just getting started. 

Gary McKibben owns Red Caboose, with wineries in both Clifton and Meridian. They make what they call “old world wines”: no pesticides on their vineyards, no filtering, and none of that fancy electricity. 

“Electricity’s only been around for 120-something years, and wine’s been around for 6,000 years,” McKibben said.

You’ve also got Lily Lake Vineyards in Lorena, Salado Creek and Rising Star Wineries in Salado, The Vineyard at Florence and Inwood Estates in Florence, Texas Legato in Lampasas, Nolan Creek Winery in Belton — the list goes on and on. 

(CLICK HERE for an interactive map of wineries and vineyards in central Texas, including links to their Websites.)

But there’s an issue for these up-and-comers: getting their wine in stores like Spec’s that buy through big distributors. 

Among the rows of wine from California’s Napa Valley, you can find the occasional local bottles. Right now they are few and far between, but the demand for that local flavor is definitely growing.

“Every day and every week, I am getting more and more product in, listening to what the customers want, what they need, what I think would be interesting,” said Meredith Meyer, the wine consultant for Spec’s in Waco.

But that’s also where independent sellers come in. June Ritterbusch owns Salado Winery and Salado Wine Seller. She’s the one who hosted the wine fest last month. 

“It’s a way to travel in your own backyard,” she said. “It’s a way to go explore.”

And the more people doing that exploring, the more the central Texas wine business grows. 

“People are just trying some new stuff with their Texas wine,” said Stephenie Kilgore of Messina Hof Winery in Bryan. “It’s nice to see, and it’s exciting to see what they’re going to come up with.”

And the wine-lovers are excited too. 

“I know that I’ll be looking for that wine now,” Endres said.

With hundreds of new wineries starting up in Texas in the last decade, you can now take your pick from wine makers like John Bagnasco. 

Walking around his vineyard with him, you get a sense for just how much he loves the work. 

“If you can show me a prettier vineyard than this in the state of Texas, I want to come see it,” said Bagnasco, who owns Valley Mills Vineyards.

And he really knows his land. 

“What we’ve discovered here is this limestone-thick soil,” he explained as we toured his acres of grape vines.

Rocky soil means lower fruit volumes, but better fruit — and better wine. Then you’ve got the central Texas climate to work around. 

“The hot-weather varietals are king,” Bagnasco said.

Tempranillo grapes come from Spain originally. They do very well here, as do moscato grapes. 

Valley Mills recently finished off planting its five acres. It’s about 3,000 grape vines total, and each plant makes about a gallon of wine.

And once they make their wine, you can taste and buy it at their tasting room out Highway 6 past Lake Waco. 

Head east down Highway 6, and you find Tehuacana Creek Vineyards. 

“I made my first wine in 1974 when I was in college,” said Tehuacana Creek winemaker Ulf Westblom.

That was back in Sweden; Westblom still has the last bottle from his very first batch on display in his tasting room here.

“You can only do so much as an amateur wine maker,” he said, “and I wanted to have the resources to make great wines.”

One of their dessert wines has won a couple awards, but one of their most popular is Mulsum, a white mixed with honey, the way the ancient Romans imbibed.

“It’s one of those types of wines that people really love it,” said Jerry Federico, a new business partner at Tehuacana Creek.

But getting people out to the winery to taste those wines is still a challenge. That’s where Federico comes in. 

“We’re thinking about, you know, do we do an event center, do we expand the tasting room,” he said.

It’s a common problem for wineries here, especially with local liquor stores carrying mostly big-name wines. 

That’s got the folks at Valley Mills hoping the central Texas wine industry continues to grow, and maybe even challenge Hill Country with a wine trail of our own. 

“I hope that happens,” Bagnasco said. “We’ll see. We’ll see.”

It’ll probably take some time to build up the wine industry here, maybe even a generation or two. 

But once it’s there, wine makers hope it’ll attract some tourism, the same way Hill Country does.

2014 Texas Wine & Rogue Art Fest pictures

Here are some great pictures from Aimee Nesse, thank-you for taking them!  If you want to share your pictures with us on facebook as well, then either tag our location (https://www.facebook.com/SaladoWinery) or the festival (https://www.facebook.com/events/273309656070588/)

Drink ‘n Paint

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The twist for Corks & Creations is you can enjoy your favorite wine from Salado Wine Seller during class. Paint, canvas, and brushes are provided as Angela Patrick leads you step by step through the process of recreating the featured artwork. At the end of the evening you’ll have a one-of-a-kind creation.
It’s a little bit of paint, a little bit of wine, and whole lot of FUN! It’s art entertainment!

Ticket covers art materials, instruction, glass of wine. Additional wine available at $5/glass