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Easter Ostrich Egg Decorating

Join us for the ultimate girls day! We’ll decorate ostrich eggs for Easter while enjoying wine and quality time spent being crafty!

Join us and receive a cleaned ostrich egg, decorations, paint, egg dye, and a free glass of wine from Salado Winery. Feel free to look up designs on Pinterest before you come and bring some of your own decorations if you’d like. Classes will be lead by our favorite entrepreneur and small business coach, the owner of Bangarang Consulting.

Tickets sales have not yet begun, but sign up for the WAITLIST here to be notified when tickets are available for sale! Tickets will be $45.

Holiday Hours

We’ll be open every day throughout the holidays (12-6 daily) except the following days..

Christmas Eve – Saturday, December 24
Open 12-4 pm

Christmas Day – Sunday, December 25
Closed

We’ll be open regular hours New Year’s Eve & New Year’s Day

Salado Christmas Stroll

December 2-4, 2016
December 9-11, 2016

The Christmas season is finally here!

Here at Salado Winery, we will have a wagon ride available 5-9 pm Friday and Saturday evening, December 9-11.

The Salado Christmas Stroll is noted for shopping all day and into the night for all the people on your Christmas List where you will find the unique and one-of-a-kind items only Salado can offer. Food and drink at local establishments and from various vendors will provide varied and delicious offerings for any hungry tummy. Music can be found in the Village and in many establishments with strolling carolers and instrumentalists. Three easily locatable “Entertainment Hot Spots” will be placed along Main Street featuring daily back to back entertainment for your listening pleasure.

United Estates of Texas Wine Festival

One of our favorite wine festivals is coming up! Join us Saturday, October 15th from 12-3pm when we’ll be pouring our signature wines at The Vineyard at Florence. Your $20 ticket will include a souvenir wine glass, ten tasting tickets, and a festival tote bag. See you there!

Buy your tickets online here.

Harker Heights Food, Wine & Beer Fest 2016

harker heights wine fest

Picture from 2015 Harker Hieights Food, Brew and Wine Fest

Saturday,  September 10, 2016, 4:00 pm – 10:00 pm
Harker Heights Community Park
1501 East FM 2410
Harker Heights, TX 76548

We will be next door in Harker Heights pouring our wonderful wines at the Harker Heights Community Park.  For tickets and more information, check out http://www.hhfoodandwine.com/

From the website…

THE FESTIVAL OFFERS A PROMENADE OF BEVERAGES AND CULINARY DELIGHTS TO BE SAMPLED AND PURCHASED BY THE VISITORS FROM HARKER HEIGHTS, KILLEEN, FORT HOOD, TEMPLE, AUSTIN, COPPERAS COVE, WACO, GEORGETOWN AND BEYOND, WHILE LISTENING TO HOT SUMMER SOUNDS BEING PLAYED FROM THE SHADY HILLTOP OVERLOOKING THE VENUE.

2nd Monday Book Club–July 2016

mebofreyouMonday, July 11th, 7-9 pm–Please join us! We will discuss the book “Me Before You” by Jojo Moyes. Feel free to bring a snack or sweet to share. Wine will be available to purchase ($6/glass). Open to anyone who is interested. If you cannot come, join the Facebook group to learn about upcoming books at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1667940416821273/events/

And yes!  you can run out and watch the movie if you don’t have time to read the book 🙂

2nd Monday Book Club

June bookgroup

June bookgroup

Monday, June 13th, 7-9 pm–Please join us! We will discuss the book “What Alice Forgot” by Liane Moriarty. Feel free to bring an snack or sweet to share. Wine will be available to purchase ($6/glass). Open to anyone who is interested. If you cannot come, join the facebook group to learn about upcoming books at https://www.facebook.com/groups/1667940416821273/events/

Wine Tasting with the Winemaker of Salado Winery at The Chill Grill & Bar

fbchillgrillevent6 pm Wednesday, May 18th at Chill Grill in Killeen, TX

We are extra excited to announce The Chill Grill in Killeen will be caring our wines! We will be holding a special tasting with the Winemaker, June Ritterbusch, on Wednesday May 18th between 6 and 7:30PM. She will be sharing the nuances and stories about her wines. It’s going to be a gorgeous taste of Salado as we will also have LIVE music from BenJamin Guenther who is also from Salado.

The event is $5 to attend and, of course, we want you to buy gallons of wine and drinks so that we can bring more lovely events like this to you as often as we can!

RSVP by purchasing a ticket with the link down below so that we know what to expect.  The Chill Grill is located at 10540 TX-195, Killeen, TX.

It’s going to be a delicious night at Chill Grill. Cheers!!!

Tickets to May 18th event at Chill Grill

National Wine Day at Republic Bar and Grill

meet the winemaker!

meet the winemaker!

Wednesday, May 25th at the Republic Bar and Grill , 302 W Veterans Memorial Blvd, Harker Heights, TX 76548, From 6-7:30 PM with winemaker for the Salado Wine Seller & Salado Winery Company, June Ritterbusch, as she describes the Texas wine she grows and makes in Salado, TX. Tastings are $10.00.  More information  https://www.facebook.com/events/1864604277099788/

Sip & Shop for Charities

Sip & Shop

Sip & Shop For Charities

Thursday, April 28, 2016 from 4 – 9 PM

Temple Mall – 3111 S. 31st Street, Temple, TX 76502

BUY TICKETS HERE

Come out for a great night of sipping wine, shopping, and winning prizes to benefit local charities sponsored by KCEN.  There will be over $6,000 in giveaways with hourly drawings, a grand drawing for a $600 shopping spree, and discounts at participating mall stores. Also featured will be wine tastings from local wineries (including yours truly), margaritas from Casa Ole’, and canvas painting.  For the guys, there will be a live stream of the NFL Pro Picks at Pro Image, snacks, and prize opportunities!

All of this with a $20 ticket and 50% goes towards your charity of choice:  Childrens Advocacy Center, Fort Hood Habitat for Humanity, Military Child Education Coalition, and Wreaths for Veterans.

*The winning tickets must be presented by 9pm or prizes will be forfeited.