Farmhouse Vineyards (High Plains)

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[00:02:36] [SPEAKER_01]: Howdy fellow vine trooper, welcome to episode 47 of the Texas Underbundling podcast and today

[00:02:41] [SPEAKER_01]: I have a very special interview for you and bring you a location that is really important

[00:02:48] [SPEAKER_01]: to many of the wineries in the Texas Wine Industry. They are actually a vineyard who has now

[00:02:57] [SPEAKER_01]: added on a winery to produce wines from their grapes. Yes, I'm talking about farmhouse

[00:03:02] [SPEAKER_01]: vineyards and I'm looking forward to bringing you all the great information about this

[00:03:07] [SPEAKER_01]: really special place.

[00:03:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Now, Katie Jane Seaton is one of the proprietors of Farmhouse Vineyards and she gets to share

[00:03:16] [SPEAKER_01]: with you her amazing journey that brought her to Texas in the Texas Wine Industry and what

[00:03:23] [SPEAKER_01]: she's done there with this amazing location at Farmhouse Vineyards. Farmhouse Vineyard was

[00:03:28] [SPEAKER_01]: actually started back in 2010. It is currently owned and operated by two couples, Tracy

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_01]: and Anthony Ferguson and Nick and Katie Jane Seaton. Originally they were just planning on planting

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: grapes and selling those to other wineries. However, after Katie Jane Seaton became part of

[00:03:49] [SPEAKER_01]: family, they were planting a less well-known grape called Malvicea Bianca and there came a season

[00:03:57] [SPEAKER_01]: in 2014 where they tried to sell that to some of the wineries here in Texas and a lot of people

[00:04:03] [SPEAKER_01]: didn't even know what it was. So they didn't want to purchase and they were left with it on their hand.

[00:04:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So Katie Jane decided why don't we just make some wine out of this ourselves and we'll show

[00:04:14] [SPEAKER_01]: people what this grape can do and so they created the housewife wine is what she called it in 2014

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: and it became hugely popular. She actually commissioned Tim Drake to be their wine maker,

[00:04:29] [SPEAKER_01]: to make this lovely variety of it and it took off. They began producing this housewife wine and

[00:04:35] [SPEAKER_01]: that kind of became their signature there at Farmhouse Vineyards and since then they've greatly

[00:04:41] [SPEAKER_01]: expanded their wine portfolio and now they even had two tasting rooms. One in Johnson City in the

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: Texas Hill Country and another one up in the Texas High Plains where the vineyard actually resides. So

[00:04:54] [SPEAKER_01]: they have one called the White House Parker tasting room in Brownfield, Texas and the vineyard itself

[00:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: is actually a meta-texis. Now for those of you that may be not be familiar with our Texas

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: and you saw it on a map, you would think it was meta-texis but of course all the people from

[00:05:11] [SPEAKER_01]: West Texas know it's pronounced meta-texis and that's where the actual vineyard is. Brownfield

[00:05:17] [SPEAKER_01]: is not far away where the White House Parker tasting room is they even have another addition there

[00:05:21] [SPEAKER_01]: called the Armory where they have some barrel storage they have some event space and their

[00:05:26] [SPEAKER_01]: offices now located there and of course their taste to group that they have in Johnson City which

[00:05:31] [SPEAKER_01]: actually started as a little air stream trailer called they call it the tipsy trailer which is

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: still there today but on a new location so now they have a new location there in downtown Johnson

[00:05:43] [SPEAKER_01]: City where they have this cute little farmhouse tasting room with the tipsy trailer sitting right

[00:05:48] [SPEAKER_01]: outside you can't miss it when you drive past it in Johnson City. Now back to the vineyard they have

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: 168 acres of vineyards they now have multiple kind of locations there spread out and they not only

[00:06:02] [SPEAKER_01]: grow wine grapes they farm other crops as well things like cotton and peanuts watermelons,

[00:06:10] [SPEAKER_01]: pumpkins, black eyed peas they even raise sheep there as well so they are truly an agricultural

[00:06:16] [SPEAKER_01]: operation that does their best in all of these different varieties from the ground all the way to your

[00:06:23] [SPEAKER_01]: table they actually open their taste rooms in 2017 the Johnson City one has actually moved from

[00:06:29] [SPEAKER_01]: its original location but they started those like I said in 2017 so they've been an operation for

[00:06:35] [SPEAKER_01]: several years now and here in Texas the wine industry is very interesting more so than many other

[00:06:41] [SPEAKER_01]: regions even all over the world and that we have what we like to call a bifurcated wine industry what

[00:06:48] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean by that is that we're one of the few locations where most of the wine grapes are actually

[00:06:54] [SPEAKER_01]: grown in the Texas high plains maybe 80% or so are actually grown in the Texas high plains which

[00:07:00] [SPEAKER_01]: has incredible soil and weather and tear off or growing those grapes but a majority of the

[00:07:06] [SPEAKER_01]: wineries are actually in other parts of the states specifically around the Texas Hill Country

[00:07:11] [SPEAKER_01]: and in North Texas and some other locations but a lot of the wineries especially here in the Hill

[00:07:18] [SPEAKER_01]: grapes from 6 to 7 hours away in the Texas high plains and have them brought in by truck

[00:07:22] [SPEAKER_01]: to the actual tasty rooms of wineries in the Hill Country or other places around the state so

[00:07:28] [SPEAKER_01]: you kind of have this two part location and so farmhouse vineyards is uniquely positioned in that because

[00:07:35] [SPEAKER_01]: they are a vineyard they provide too many of the wine destinations that I brought to you in this

[00:07:40] [SPEAKER_01]: podcast as well as others throughout the state and so they're only one of a handful of actual

[00:07:47] [SPEAKER_01]: wine destinations that can say they are truly 100% estate wines they all of their wines all

[00:07:54] [SPEAKER_01]: the grapes from their wines come directly from their own vineyard they don't need to source anywhere else

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: and so they are truly a wine grower and wine maker in that way and of course it's all 100%

[00:08:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Texas wine and since they grow even more than just wine grapes you can be assured that if you go to

[00:08:14] [SPEAKER_01]: their tasty rooms or even some of their wine club events you're going to be tasting amazing food

[00:08:19] [SPEAKER_01]: products that they have brought directly from their farms and so they are truly a farm to table

[00:08:25] [SPEAKER_01]: type of operation and so you get to taste incredible food as well as great wines that they are

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: producing themselves heck even as a member of their wine club you'll find that you even get

[00:08:36] [SPEAKER_01]: some signature farm products from other things that they grow with your wine club shipment that's

[00:08:43] [SPEAKER_01]: not something you're going to get in any other place and to top it off they even have some

[00:08:48] [SPEAKER_01]: lodging available both in the whole country as well as in the high plains that you can rent

[00:08:52] [SPEAKER_01]: if you're wanting to go visit them and maybe make a trip out of it to go visit even other great wine

[00:08:57] [SPEAKER_01]: destinations as well you can actually rent lodging from them as well and all that information

[00:09:03] [SPEAKER_01]: of course is on their website so you can go there to find that and when I was there I actually went

[00:09:08] [SPEAKER_01]: to their Johnson City tasting room here in the Texas Hill Country and was lucky enough to sit down

[00:09:15] [SPEAKER_01]: with Katie Jane Seaton to be able to hear her story to hear her commitment to the land, her commitment

[00:09:21] [SPEAKER_01]: to the wine grapes to her family and to all the people in their organization she's got a fun

[00:09:27] [SPEAKER_01]: story she's very well spoken and so you're going to really enjoy this interview had so much

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_01]: fun interviewing her and I know you're going to enjoy listening to it so without further ado let's

[00:09:37] [SPEAKER_01]: hear from her. All right well I'm here at Farmhouse Vineyards with Katie Jane Seaton and so I want

[00:09:49] [SPEAKER_01]: to turn you to Chinon you tell me a little bit about yourself so what got you into the wine industry

[00:09:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and with an accident. I love accidents in college at New Mexico State so my wine experience began

[00:10:02] [SPEAKER_00]: in the see a valley which is where wine began as a birthplace here you know in the United States

[00:10:08] [SPEAKER_00]: in the U.N. 100 you're 130 years more california I am passionate about getting that message out

[00:10:15] [SPEAKER_00]: the only reason we have wine is because of the Mexican culture you know it's that's a passion

[00:10:19] [SPEAKER_00]: print permit I'm just going to spit it out but I was in college and I had a professor ask if I wanted

[00:10:25] [SPEAKER_00]: to be the T-shirt girl at the Los Creses Wine and Chili War Festival which is huge festival

[00:10:30] [SPEAKER_00]: formats that they have both Labor Day and Memorial Day weekend okay and so I mean we're going to

[00:10:37] [SPEAKER_00]: go from there. I wound up being the Executive Director of their association a couple years later again

[00:10:43] [SPEAKER_00]: by accident I always thought I would end up in the Court of Works Association or the Cadillan's

[00:10:49] [SPEAKER_00]: Association I'm not fit for wine and I'll tell you why everything I think comes right across my

[00:10:56] [SPEAKER_00]: face and soon out my mouth and that doesn't suit this industry very well when you get down into

[00:11:02] [SPEAKER_01]: the politics of it all so you're from the from New Mexico West to Missouri I'm originally from

[00:11:07] [SPEAKER_00]: the Great Northwest great Northwest I was born in Washington and then we moved back to my mom's

[00:11:11] [SPEAKER_00]: hometown and the eighth grade so I say born in Washington and raised in Oregon but I consider my home

[00:11:17] [SPEAKER_00]: wine region uh wallowaw okay yeah wallowaw Washington and so you know I've been in agriculture my entire

[00:11:25] [SPEAKER_00]: life and wine is agriculture and that's another point that I'm really passionate about because I think it's

[00:11:32] [SPEAKER_00]: the most as a as a crop we are the most heavily, heavily labor intensive crop and the most

[00:11:41] [SPEAKER_00]: regulated in product and the most mis-market lifestyle. So it comes natural but I never it I still after

[00:11:51] [SPEAKER_00]: 22 years and surprise on certain days really yeah them of them that makes for a very easy

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_01]: well not easy I guess but what interesting job when you get to be your costly surprise

[00:12:04] [SPEAKER_00]: it's not monotonous that is true there's no one data same I can tell you Tracy and I

[00:12:09] [SPEAKER_00]: our whole brand do you set out with the list of what you're gonna do and that's just when

[00:12:12] [SPEAKER_00]: God in the public collapse and you'll do 74 things on the opposite side of the room that you know

[00:12:18] [SPEAKER_01]: that it's just what it is was the phrase about the best laid plans yes 100% definitely falls

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: well tell me about the history of farmhouse fitness in so how did you go from being with the

[00:12:30] [SPEAKER_01]: white of food foundation is that what you said or what just the next co-language this is a

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_01]: white-lure association doing it that right yeah how did you go for being with the new Mexico wine

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: growers association to now the owner of farmhouse vineyards tell me the story of that path it flung okay

[00:12:44] [SPEAKER_00]: well we got time people on here let's hear you story okay it's and I have the tendency to

[00:12:49] [SPEAKER_00]: talk in circles so if you do have list on earth tuning and they should probably get a glass

[00:12:53] [SPEAKER_00]: but something like I'm for yourself something there we go so my father was a bronze sculptor oh

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_00]: well yeah and he did really well and when he was interviewed people wanted him to give his

[00:13:04] [SPEAKER_00]: does he just really you know laid out there and he was kind of a tall soft-spoken simple man

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_00]: cowboy and he would say I've kept four women in horses and shoes for 35 years and then he would

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_00]: sit down and it was like you didn't get the enormity of that then he didn't have time to explain it right

[00:13:21] [SPEAKER_00]: simple right so our clientele his clientele would largely in Texas because high-end art usually follows

[00:13:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the oil market right teachers and plumbers and farmers we're not collecting high-end art so

[00:13:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and we spent a lot of time with a family here in this wonderful state and I idolized

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_00]: Dallas the show I do I just I loved the entrepreneurship I love to the beautiful people I loved

[00:13:51] [SPEAKER_00]: you know all of it and just kind of that I don't know elevated western lifestyle if you will

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_00]: and when we would come here the people lived up to it Texans were gracious and full of

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_00]: bravado and everybody had an idea and everybody was striking out on something and it was a

[00:14:11] [SPEAKER_00]: really appealing to me and so as a little girl I always said when I grow up if I'm not married and

[00:14:16] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't have children I'm gonna pie I'd a Texas as fast as I could I took a couple of detour okay

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_00]: one of them being going back to college later on in life in New Mexico at the next

[00:14:27] [SPEAKER_00]: coast state where I had a professor asked about you know and then I wanted to do this and um I showed

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_00]: up to the one and show me where festival at the fairgrounds and they were selling really ugly

[00:14:40] [SPEAKER_00]: old coasters not ugly I shouldn't say that postures were great they were selling them in just the

[00:14:44] [SPEAKER_00]: packs with old white yield and t-shirts on plastic table right because at that time the community

[00:14:50] [SPEAKER_00]: was not involvement yeah great course so I sent a night probably volunteers in that 100% spent the night

[00:14:58] [SPEAKER_00]: staging I also learned another most valuable lesson in the world of events here I think we talked about

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_00]: that and spent the night staging and decorating and we ended up selling 7000 dollars worth of merchandise

[00:15:09] [SPEAKER_00]: which you know is huge I heard of it's hard of that time and they said do you want a job

[00:15:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and I love to work working as my lead language it's my identity um it's probably unhealthy how much

[00:15:21] [SPEAKER_00]: I like to be engaged in other things versus just my life and so that is what led me down the path

[00:15:27] [SPEAKER_00]: um when I graduated and again um I dad had a massive heart attack pathway I spent went home

[00:15:33] [SPEAKER_00]: spending a earth my mom and then was like gosh you really should tune into that Texas stream

[00:15:38] [SPEAKER_00]: came back and um was buying for a position with rodeo or a position with rodeo Austin

[00:15:44] [SPEAKER_00]: yes they had I'd met them at the NFR I was the marketing and marketing girlfriend the

[00:15:49] [SPEAKER_00]: back and horse and bullseel at that time and on a contract basis and so they said we know

[00:15:54] [SPEAKER_00]: we don't quite have a position open yet but we do have this hundred accident we're trying to merge

[00:15:59] [SPEAKER_00]: elite sponsors with the top top cowboys in a um casual conversational setting at this

[00:16:07] [SPEAKER_00]: ten so I said yes and they left around like always and they had local barbecue

[00:16:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and local beer and I said where's the wine is it Texas oh you know they made to face you know

[00:16:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the face oh yeah they made the face and that wind we just went notice start so a good gold

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_00]: and um came cross-toxist wind and great chorus okay you called gave my pitch got the standard

[00:16:34] [SPEAKER_00]: pitch back that time from the director to co-ta-hazel it you know we can't donate wine it's legal

[00:16:38] [SPEAKER_00]: blah blah blah I said I understand but I'm willing to bet maybe underneath your desk right now

[00:16:45] [SPEAKER_00]: there is a case of wine that's not good enough to give to anyone you know and not bad enough to throw away

[00:16:51] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of just have that and I heard her say what's your name again?

[00:16:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and then there was some typing in google it yeah and she said do you want a job and I said no no

[00:17:03] [SPEAKER_00]: one no no no no no no no no no I do I love the wine business I love the any type of setting

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_00]: where people use a product to make somebody else feel bad or inadequate about themselves and so

[00:17:18] [SPEAKER_00]: you know then I was trying to gig it and asked in doing some other things and about a month

[00:17:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and a half later thought oh run an out of money I wonder if that child is still available

[00:17:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and so I called and interviewed and I was the first executive director for Texas Hill Country

[00:17:33] [SPEAKER_00]: Widering oh excellent yeah may have all five so when I started with then there was 16

[00:17:37] [SPEAKER_00]: in grudah 33 and when I resigned and left to went to work the backer of ignorance all time

[00:17:43] [SPEAKER_00]: I think they were going into the 15 number or but January we after a couple of years

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_00]: I needed help there had been some growth we had put wine trail on the internet you know people

[00:17:54] [SPEAKER_00]: forget about internet life is so convenient now exactly but when things were taken for granted

[00:18:00] [SPEAKER_00]: correct when I first started they were hand filling out and hand mailing out you know wine

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_00]: child to yes for the Christmas trail in blah blah blah blah so anyway and that's how I

[00:18:11] [SPEAKER_00]: began to know and loved and weary she was employed with black creek and when I would send out emails

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_00]: with instructions about what we were supposed to do for this said trail she was one four

[00:18:21] [SPEAKER_00]: that would actually respond and or followed through so when it came time to hire somebody that was

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_00]: you know past ideas and and had to follow through we sought her out and that was years in

[00:18:33] [SPEAKER_00]: your account yeah she's doing fantastic job with it yeah then on a trip when I went to work for

[00:18:40] [SPEAKER_00]: backer you know growing up in the northwest and being around other wine regions through travel

[00:18:45] [SPEAKER_00]: the growers are the rock stars not to take anything away from the wine making rock stars

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_00]: but it's a two part it's a very two part mechanism that really blends in the end right and if you

[00:18:57] [SPEAKER_00]: don't have good fruit in the vineyard you're never gonna have good wine you can have you know

[00:19:03] [SPEAKER_00]: good fruit in the vineyard and bad wine making and still end up but it's really hard to mess up

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_00]: premiere fruit yep if you just let science and nature and god take its course so um I noticed and I

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_00]: being within an hour in San Antonio and an hour of Austin and the tourism when we didn't have

[00:19:28] [SPEAKER_00]: the quality fruit necessarily and the quality of wine making happening at every place because we've

[00:19:33] [SPEAKER_00]: got eighty you know we've got nineteen eighty three wines that are gorgeous but you gotta know where to find them

[00:19:39] [SPEAKER_00]: you know and so I hate it when they say Texas wine wasn't good then because good wine

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: good in bad wine is made everywhere right and mint inches are notable for a reason

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and just because one guy out of seven guys was doing it right doesn't mean you know one that apple

[00:19:58] [SPEAKER_00]: exactly and but I went to work for backer they then at the time and still do purchase the most

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: amount of Texas fruit of anyone wearing the state but that marketing narrative never made it out

[00:20:09] [SPEAKER_00]: the door and that's what I was passionate about so we were headed to the high planes

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_00]: to photograph their growers you hate I wanted to do full body photographs that got

[00:20:19] [SPEAKER_00]: I got way laid there only half life and to have downstairs in this seller and in our library

[00:20:25] [SPEAKER_00]: and on that trip I met my now has been we had a four hour conversation and we

[00:20:31] [SPEAKER_00]: allowed forty two days later we never dated and we'll both tell you we don't recommend it

[00:20:38] [SPEAKER_00]: but it works for you and you're short for us I've always been a cliff jumper

[00:20:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and I just listened to my god god gave women an intuition and the best thing you can do in your

[00:20:47] [SPEAKER_00]: life is dialing that and so that took me from being the said marketing girl to you know 25

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_00]: percent of the lot of debt yeah and trying to build a brand and so farmhouse was born out of a

[00:21:01] [SPEAKER_00]: winery walking a fruit contract okay because we couldn't give Malvisi a Bianca away at that time

[00:21:07] [SPEAKER_00]: we were the first and to access to planted nobody could pronounce it they didn't want

[00:21:13] [SPEAKER_00]: to know what they were getting these in it was another orange muscat that some grower was trying

[00:21:17] [SPEAKER_00]: to pat onto the truck you know you take them or bet you take the temperate you got to take this

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_00]: too then you got to get on this white contract too which was you know how things were kind of

[00:21:26] [SPEAKER_00]: being done if that tiring and so we made one wine called house life it was a joke I was

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_00]: anybody's house life and I knew that they knew that when the marketing girl married a great

[00:21:37] [SPEAKER_00]: prower and now they're in the wine business grists right like you get kits here so we started

[00:21:42] [SPEAKER_00]: kitsie we couldn't a little bit of the bottle we gave it a kitsie name and to mjrk is our

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_00]: white maker always has then always little beat and he knows his play around knows his way around

[00:21:51] [SPEAKER_00]: and so the wine was lovely and that set us on our course we went from one wine to three to nine

[00:21:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to two tastes parents nice thank you yeah and I'm just the talk of it one I need to it's very

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_00]: imperative that people hear me when I say I'm hearing into that land and that planting they had

[00:22:09] [SPEAKER_00]: already done that on their own and established that but they're just west Texas for it in raised

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_00]: church or Christers modest to the health and want zero attention so the three people who've

[00:22:22] [SPEAKER_00]: been the hard work deserve more credit than I and so I still an ask him out that's all

[00:22:27] [SPEAKER_00]: see a lot of things I had a hell of a rollo deck and I'm not shy but those three people

[00:22:32] [SPEAKER_00]: tracing Anthony for his and and my husband Nick Seaton are who deserve the credit you got you

[00:22:37] [SPEAKER_01]: you took the focus there though you took the raw materials and then got it focused to the

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_00]: product yeah it's not hard to tell the truth yeah and it's not hard to tell stories about

[00:22:46] [SPEAKER_00]: hard working wonderful people yeah it's hard to privilege they've made them the first vineyard in

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: 2010 that's what I was just about to ask so you you're married into the family now you got the vineyard

[00:22:57] [SPEAKER_01]: so that was the vineyard was planted in 2010 you said yes so the first vineyard which was originally

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_00]: a 20 acre planting that's the farmhouse vineyard okay um was planted in 2010 okay they added on in

[00:23:09] [SPEAKER_00]: 12 and that's in brownfield correct correct I showed up in 13 actually there the vineyard itself

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_00]: had quarter-manured is out in meta okay if meta on the sign and meta in yeah meta so the

[00:23:24] [SPEAKER_00]: person was just there yeah and then we began converting different farms from cotton you know to

[00:23:29] [SPEAKER_00]: great like everybody up there and so I arrived in 13 we planted in 14 15 16 17 and then again I think

[00:23:38] [SPEAKER_00]: in 22 maybe and then we just are now had entered into at least purchase agreement for a fourth

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_00]: site uh bonus to our table because it comes with beautiful lodging it's a different

[00:23:51] [SPEAKER_00]: sandy or sign and my husband originally formed that back in Pellau back in the day so it's really um

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_00]: it's really beneficial to our family to keep that re-owned together it's congruent with

[00:24:02] [SPEAKER_01]: another circle that we have and keep it in the vine in the streets to friends yeah it's got a

[00:24:07] [SPEAKER_00]: story history there as well and we opened again like I said we never planned on making wine

[00:24:11] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to make wine I hate the wind this is hate the wind it but it was it means you know that

[00:24:18] [SPEAKER_00]: we needed to jail so we didn't just blow that premium fruit funny story about couldn't give

[00:24:23] [SPEAKER_00]: them all the COA yeah yeah we made that first one and then we were like everyone's somewhere

[00:24:27] [SPEAKER_00]: she had that we'd been hiding this right in the honey and we're like we didn't know it

[00:24:31] [SPEAKER_00]: for me all that stuff you were buying for all that's correct you got sure drinking it and so

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah that was really entertaining and but then we opened our two tasting rooms in September

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_00]: well October no member of 2017 okay and we originally started with the trailer down here

[00:24:50] [SPEAKER_00]: over on Avenue you know bite on the side of what was then in two 90 binary right

[00:24:54] [SPEAKER_00]: and people just thought it was a pure burrito wagon or a coffee wagon you know we had a plenty

[00:24:59] [SPEAKER_00]: done in foot sign that said wine tasting it was a little too kitshi okay you know at the time so

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_00]: this little house became open we worked my turn it also turns out people need bathrooms

[00:25:10] [SPEAKER_00]: and you restaurant whatever and when you farm all day you're like yeah stop to go to the bathroom

[00:25:15] [SPEAKER_00]: stop you can't go to the bathroom so but it looks like our house up there you know this is

[00:25:21] [SPEAKER_00]: the square craftsman and we'll be call White House Parker up there as a long rambling ranch

[00:25:26] [SPEAKER_01]: cool yeah we were here sitting in Johnson City tasting room right now and but you have

[00:25:31] [SPEAKER_01]: the taste room there and the armory tell me what what is the armory the armory is um the latest thing

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_00]: that we added two years ago now which is crazy it's our corporate offices so we were able to like

[00:25:43] [SPEAKER_00]: finally have a place an office because you know we would just set up and work on a tailgate or

[00:25:49] [SPEAKER_00]: at our homes or in the tasting room and it's the traffic begin to pick up up there you know

[00:25:55] [SPEAKER_00]: your deep into a spreadsheet and wine clim member stops by of course you want to visit with sure

[00:25:59] [SPEAKER_00]: or know what I really talk about it what I really talk about is you know we would get our

[00:26:07] [SPEAKER_00]: papers out we've got our laptop sound set the alarm you know to 330 you know got to go grab

[00:26:13] [SPEAKER_00]: kids so we make our phone calls in the morning and then we make our decisions and all this

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_00]: on the alarm goes off the whole crash shut all the papers and the laptop back into the van

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_00]: we go pick up kids and then everybody we call that morning when return our calls so then we're

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_00]: hanging out papers well this is what our production's gonna be and this is the fruit we don't

[00:26:29] [SPEAKER_00]: have sold and so all of our things had you know McDonald's drive through ketchup stains on

[00:26:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and they're okay or um chickpea yeah for years you might get a contract that's in chickpea

[00:26:39] [SPEAKER_00]: later thought they're had roll around on the bottom of my mom car and and um so for us to have

[00:26:45] [SPEAKER_00]: actual office a place of business yeah and it has another board room and we can move our production

[00:26:51] [SPEAKER_00]: we moved our just our viral barn and case good storage okay so we're paying three times the

[00:26:57] [SPEAKER_00]: cost and put it should because they didn't have a winery you know we cut some because some cry okay

[00:27:01] [SPEAKER_00]: silly gig it at a custom crash facility or we make in house with one of our client they love doing

[00:27:07] [SPEAKER_00]: it's a little more integrated and so we just were all over the place and that allowed us to

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_00]: centralize and then it's got the you know it's 15,000 square foot building and so right now it

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_00]: allows us to have beautiful events in a climate controlled setting which is key in West Texas

[00:27:21] [SPEAKER_00]: Habu, Habu, Habu, Habu, yeah so that's what the armory is for us. Well how many acres

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: under vine do you have currently? I'm 168. 168 okay. Yeah. Four and then anyone should have. Right

[00:27:34] [SPEAKER_00]: I had one his famous saying is they're easier raised to serve the lord. Funny start and well

[00:27:45] [SPEAKER_00]: coming from a marketing girl and always having represented other brands you know I didn't

[00:27:50] [SPEAKER_00]: knew the things I wanted to and wanted not to do and one of them was to name our brand

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_00]: something people couldn't pronounce okay you know people are such a romantic and I did an ideal

[00:28:00] [SPEAKER_00]: idealistic way for what this business really is so when they name their vineyard they're like

[00:28:04] [SPEAKER_00]: it's bebbeda da da da da da da which is a real pain in the ass to pronounce frankly and that doesn't

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_00]: do you any favors right and so we knew that we wanted to be simple because we want the work in

[00:28:16] [SPEAKER_00]: to show up too and has leveling line drinking life and but my two farmers my brother and

[00:28:22] [SPEAKER_00]: La Anthony and my husband Nicholas were sitting at the kitchen counter squirming trying to get

[00:28:26] [SPEAKER_00]: the hell out back to the field squirming like this woman why should make us have a meaning you know

[00:28:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and I just was likely we need to be cohesive it needs to be represented and be truth you know

[00:28:37] [SPEAKER_00]: the number one thing you can do if you look in brands that are truly successful it just told

[00:28:41] [SPEAKER_00]: their true and then I have to worry about policy and the name yep and so I we had been given

[00:28:48] [SPEAKER_00]: a wedding gift by one of our dear friends and it was one of those kind of pre-fabbed vintage looking

[00:28:53] [SPEAKER_00]: sign and it said welcome to the scene in farmhouse and Anthony looks up my has the nicer

[00:28:59] [SPEAKER_00]: remember that it was him but I'm better remember in for detail Anthony looks at and says how

[00:29:03] [SPEAKER_00]: about farmhouse in kind of a sarcastic like I got a good out of here and I thought oh my gosh

[00:29:08] [SPEAKER_00]: the three of me were raised in farmhouses I was raised in a ranch house that's authentic of all

[00:29:14] [SPEAKER_00]: good out yeah and so like we can do this we can and that's great you know and it evokes immediately

[00:29:21] [SPEAKER_00]: an image of who we are and what we do and so we said yes and then we were super blessed that about

[00:29:29] [SPEAKER_00]: two months after and such and this lovely woman in Joanna games showed up on everywhere and she

[00:29:34] [SPEAKER_00]: started saying ship lap and farmhouse sheek this and farmhouse that and they just served as unpaid

[00:29:40] [SPEAKER_00]: ambassadors for our brand you can go to hobby and drawback or supply and get a suggestion hard way

[00:29:47] [SPEAKER_00]: yes you can get a sign with art may you know and we didn't have a thing right and so that was

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER_00]: just one of those divine timing moments and I am a great pro and a friend ambassador but my number one

[00:30:02] [SPEAKER_00]: gotten there for a month right and we welcome a claim to welcome a claim to the kindness not

[00:30:08] [SPEAKER_00]: normally and in the eight-year-old field position but we had a real good day yeah so no worries

[00:30:14] [SPEAKER_01]: do that yeah well so the normal question I usually ask at this point is almost kind of silly to ask

[00:30:22] [SPEAKER_01]: but I usually ask a lot of the wine decisions where do you source your fruit yes pretty obvious for

[00:30:28] [SPEAKER_01]: you do everything do you do everything from your own estate I guess on the 168 acres

[00:30:33] [SPEAKER_01]: you have plenty of fruit to work with but I haven't yet anything anywhere else no we're

[00:30:37] [SPEAKER_00]: 100% on a state fruit and I can realize that that wasn't as common or I didn't realize the

[00:30:46] [SPEAKER_00]: need I guess until Sarah Garrett honestly okay um started really from sarana wine from sarana

[00:30:51] [SPEAKER_00]: wine yeah she they incubated with us we reached out to them I reached out to her when I was

[00:30:58] [SPEAKER_00]: producing the Texas wine maker stock you series okay because they were meaning of moving to

[00:31:03] [SPEAKER_00]: Texas and our anionic had connected us and so they bought some rusey on from us and I just really

[00:31:11] [SPEAKER_00]: enjoyed her her perception the way she talks about lines that it her key points and she was like

[00:31:21] [SPEAKER_00]: you're when it's like five that's 100% a state yeah and it just you know when something's in your

[00:31:26] [SPEAKER_00]: own backyard I mean to me like how could people not know right like how did they not know our story

[00:31:32] [SPEAKER_00]: and so I guess it became then that we started talking about it more you know but the definition

[00:31:38] [SPEAKER_00]: of the state honestly too you have to really learn that is it's any vineyard that is being managed

[00:31:44] [SPEAKER_00]: by the winery and being paid for you know in it's his totality despite the location so when people

[00:31:51] [SPEAKER_00]: want to bag on brands that may not they may only have an any vineyard down here um because they

[00:32:01] [SPEAKER_00]: don't think it's a career going site or they don't have the capital but they are willing to support

[00:32:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and source group in the high planes and support our families and family like us yeah they don't

[00:32:12] [SPEAKER_00]: deserve to be diminished in any way because hey that's their estate vineyard if they're on an

[00:32:17] [SPEAKER_00]: entire block if they're on an entire site you know um so I wish that's one of my

[00:32:23] [SPEAKER_00]: kind of problems with Texas wine is it's not particular about them in a killer you know we're brand

[00:32:31] [SPEAKER_00]: we're not a winery yeah we don't have drains yeah right we are a brand who retains a full-time wine maker

[00:32:37] [SPEAKER_00]: um we have two tasting rooms and a barrel barn and case constorage but we don't we don't

[00:32:43] [SPEAKER_00]: permit yeah and we know I'm drink and so I wish more people understood the correct terminology

[00:32:50] [SPEAKER_00]: because it's important in understanding the art and act of wine itself yeah you know and then

[00:32:56] [SPEAKER_01]: for production then you said that you had normally done custom crush with other places or with

[00:33:02] [SPEAKER_01]: but with your armory now do we're saying you have production facilities there so we we do we don't

[00:33:08] [SPEAKER_00]: permit we don't have drain but we do have our barrels there so we can we can work our barrels there

[00:33:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and our case good storage is there and then we bottle there for mobile bottling okay so it's like

[00:33:18] [SPEAKER_00]: you know 70 80 percent is done with us there yeah you just have the first part of the

[00:33:23] [SPEAKER_01]: presentation it's just that first piece and go a few weeks of that and then there rest is all done

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER_01]: here yeah okay yeah cool what are your favorite wines as a owner and you got assisting the wine

[00:33:34] [SPEAKER_01]: maker so for what are some of your favorite wives to work with well it's hi at beautiful

[00:33:39] [SPEAKER_00]: red blends age-dred wines was the hell I was gonna die yeah because after representing everybody else

[00:33:46] [SPEAKER_00]: um and again while I was you know it's that I consider my home-wring region I saw a lot of

[00:33:52] [SPEAKER_00]: I understand why because you need to capital yeah cost-many to age wine yeah and there was just a

[00:33:59] [SPEAKER_00]: lot of red's being turned out in 14 months and 18 months really young really young

[00:34:05] [SPEAKER_00]: and they had an audience out of loyalty because people want to support Texas wine but when you brought

[00:34:11] [SPEAKER_00]: real wine drinkers to Texas that was a real turn off for them you know and it was so as a disconnect

[00:34:17] [SPEAKER_00]: people wanting to try Texas wine trying it and their feedback and their reviews were it's young

[00:34:23] [SPEAKER_00]: it's all these things where doing your all that stuff time would have just done it well

[00:34:30] [SPEAKER_00]: and so and Tim is masterful Tim makes 30 year age red wine you know and and has dot

[00:34:35] [SPEAKER_00]: has per years prior to his arrival in Texas and so the proof was in the pudding proof was in the

[00:34:47] [SPEAKER_00]: four years into it people were sick to death of tasting Malbusia Bianca five ways we made it bone dry

[00:34:55] [SPEAKER_00]: we made it uh off dry yes sparkling and you know diabetic so you know we had all these people

[00:35:02] [SPEAKER_00]: saying we really want to support you but we're sick to death the drink in wine wine five ways and

[00:35:08] [SPEAKER_00]: so we had kind of a knock-down drying out meeting um with tears we had a lot of tears in the big

[00:35:14] [SPEAKER_00]: that was like we need we need a horse that will ride we need a horse that will make some money

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah and that's how cultivated was born it's our only red red wine okay it is tank right

[00:35:24] [SPEAKER_00]: he's no barrel time and it's of it's a bad time gin it's a hodgepodge of our fruit

[00:35:29] [SPEAKER_00]: of what is was unsold or uncontracted and largely dulce de tu you know at that time you know

[00:35:43] [SPEAKER_00]: and it sold in people loved it and it was taught some cash flow not profit do not

[00:35:49] [SPEAKER_00]: mistake cash flow for profit for the love of God they are two very different things

[00:35:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and um they both will keep you up at night but they are not related and so that is what brought

[00:36:01] [SPEAKER_00]: us down the road of our single-barrow wines are cultivated serents and and those things but um

[00:36:07] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah age trend wines are my heart yeah I'll tell you live here long enough and you get old

[00:36:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and your hornbounds kick in and suddenly you're like listen let me talk to you about gorgeous

[00:36:17] [SPEAKER_00]: whites and rosé where's the rosé right yeah so we make some we I like to think we make white

[00:36:23] [SPEAKER_00]: winds and rosé for red wine drinkers okay you know because I come from an environment with tall

[00:36:27] [SPEAKER_00]: trees and fireplaces yeah all right I want a big yeah beautiful wine but I love the art of the

[00:36:35] [SPEAKER_00]: island I understand and respect single-barrow and who it is but um I don't know the vineyard itself

[00:36:43] [SPEAKER_00]: is so collaborative from the soil and the sun and the wind that the vines are female and they're

[00:36:50] [SPEAKER_00]: in a chorus line you know I talk about picture the rockets a vineyard ought to operate like the

[00:36:56] [SPEAKER_00]: rockets do and when it does it's saying you know it sings and it dances and that translates

[00:37:01] [SPEAKER_00]: to the glass and um I can get real geeky with you on that we're not going to right we talked about

[00:37:07] [SPEAKER_00]: that's not we're not going to so so and yes that harmony in your glass is the thing that

[00:37:14] [SPEAKER_00]: makes people go wow what is this like you did in your first what is this and my first moment

[00:37:21] [SPEAKER_00]: for that I've never been overseas you know I'm like I'm 20 something years of doing this

[00:37:27] [SPEAKER_00]: what it doesn't count right I'm not a canada don't know right and and yeah 20 years of doing this

[00:37:34] [SPEAKER_00]: and I I just and still so enamored with what what God does with the vineyard can do naturally

[00:37:43] [SPEAKER_00]: when it's cared for properly and how that translates into a glass when it's in the hands of the

[00:37:48] [SPEAKER_01]: right person yeah yeah namely tendric for us so yeah what are some of your most popular wines with

[00:37:53] [SPEAKER_01]: customers for the ones that you feel like every time you release them they're just selling out

[00:37:57] [SPEAKER_00]: your costly time and stuff we have an audience for everyone okay and this is manning yeah

[00:38:02] [SPEAKER_00]: from the bookkeeping site play and my my my jian sister sister and law who is on wildly unpaid

[00:38:10] [SPEAKER_00]: untitled underappreciated and undervalued and her promoted um she we do this every couple of years

[00:38:17] [SPEAKER_00]: we sit down and say gosh we never meant to grow this big we never meant to have these many lines

[00:38:22] [SPEAKER_00]: let's kill skew let's run the reports and say you know who's not performing and they're in a

[00:38:29] [SPEAKER_00]: dead heat really yeah what are for a free customer yes which is again I think a testament to 10

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER_00]: making such a variety of wines that have a following you know so we'll rest a label for a while

[00:38:41] [SPEAKER_00]: but we inevitably end up bringing it back it's crazy they'll have their groupies yet different

[00:38:46] [SPEAKER_00]: groups you know they totally do I love that you say that because our wines you know we have a lot

[00:38:50] [SPEAKER_00]: collaboration with artists yeah and then each one has a playlist so yeah but they do they all have

[00:38:54] [SPEAKER_01]: a bunch of groupies that's great um do you do any kind of like events or anything like that here

[00:39:00] [SPEAKER_00]: on site or they are out of our wine club yeah our wine club and parties are pretty eventful

[00:39:06] [SPEAKER_00]: their you know we always have the music and life music and great food and we work really hard to

[00:39:12] [SPEAKER_00]: pair our wine club with our original one with the unprotected from the farm we want to educate people

[00:39:18] [SPEAKER_00]: that we joke that we bait you in with the wine but we beat you over the head of agriculture right

[00:39:22] [SPEAKER_00]: or here anything to do as you sure as you sure yes you should know it comes from yeah so

[00:39:28] [SPEAKER_00]: that that wearing club comes you know with black eyed peas in the fall things that we grow

[00:39:34] [SPEAKER_00]: or are cotton honey or a whiny jam and because we just really want people to understand

[00:39:41] [SPEAKER_00]: about the agriculture so yeah well too we two events it's hard to hear our footprint here is

[00:39:47] [SPEAKER_00]: sure deliberately small right I mean we started in a 33 spare time yeah yeah because it's not

[00:39:55] [SPEAKER_00]: about us it's about us being the growers for the top twenty wineries in Texas yeah so I think it's

[00:40:01] [SPEAKER_00]: really bad manners when you've been a grower all these years and somebody has paid you and put your

[00:40:06] [SPEAKER_00]: name on their bottle and then suddenly that grower decides to pop right down in the middle yeah and

[00:40:12] [SPEAKER_00]: build a giant retail and compete with you I think that's a really bad manners yeah and it may

[00:40:18] [SPEAKER_00]: not be popular amongst some of my peers but I know care it's just an opinion so we we're deliberate

[00:40:25] [SPEAKER_00]: in being small and we want you to taste our fruit as low to the ground as you can because we have

[00:40:31] [SPEAKER_00]: zero minimum I mean we're like super minimal intervention with our wines and then we want to

[00:40:42] [SPEAKER_00]: you know and we do it's on every chalkboard it's on the website it's in our socials so

[00:40:48] [SPEAKER_01]: that was one of the things I loved when I came up because you do service and you provide grapes

[00:40:52] [SPEAKER_01]: for so many places I love being able to go up and look at your and not only do you just have a

[00:40:57] [SPEAKER_01]: listing on the chalkboard you do their logos and every time you really give a tribute to the people

[00:41:02] [SPEAKER_01]: that you're in cooperation with as we push that Texas wine industry forward and they're the

[00:41:09] [SPEAKER_01]: other families eat and that's all of that okay so I'm sure listeners now starting to get excited

[00:41:14] [SPEAKER_01]: I wanted to come out to try things out whether whether they're in Johnson City or whether they're

[00:41:18] [SPEAKER_01]: up in the high place to come visit so let's talk about what can we expect when they come in for a

[00:41:24] [SPEAKER_01]: tasty. So what does that look like so do they when somebody does a tasty do they I've been

[00:41:31] [SPEAKER_01]: to a lot of places some have a set flight of wine some allow you to choose the wine you want

[00:41:36] [SPEAKER_01]: some have different types of tasting for different things what does a tasting look like here

[00:41:40] [SPEAKER_00]: a farmhouse sure so we do have a set list we usually try and only keep three flights on the bar

[00:41:45] [SPEAKER_00]: okay because too many options are is over a can be overwhelming to even decide to come out

[00:41:50] [SPEAKER_00]: right hopefully utilize the Texas Hill Country wineries website or your podcast

[00:41:56] [SPEAKER_00]: the Texas wine level up all those all the things and you so you've made this agenda

[00:42:00] [SPEAKER_00]: and now you know in theory you shouldn't visit more than four in a day yes race better but you

[00:42:06] [SPEAKER_00]: if you're a newbie you don't know that inter like look at all these we do take all these you know

[00:42:11] [SPEAKER_00]: yes hop on the wide shuttle yeah exactly yeah so and we do like to provide some framework

[00:42:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I sort everybody and ask our staff to sort everybody by are you red white sweeter dry

[00:42:24] [SPEAKER_00]: first of all that's in the wrong order okay but it will stop you in your tracks because it makes people think

[00:42:29] [SPEAKER_00]: right and so that's the first way we sort you and everything is like how we sort back in horses

[00:42:34] [SPEAKER_00]: or how we sort cattle I mean I can't get away from who I am yeah yeah so you know we are

[00:42:37] [SPEAKER_00]: we sort left and we sort right and that allows us the next while a question is if you do

[00:42:42] [SPEAKER_00]: drink what is it that you enjoy at home okay because we compare you oh you're drinking me only

[00:42:47] [SPEAKER_00]: ooh okay well we're gonna start over here but we're also gonna teach you about fruit right

[00:42:52] [SPEAKER_00]: so within me you know we change those up based on lots of things like everyone does

[00:42:57] [SPEAKER_00]: show inventory season the now it ain't right we just sit in the summer as our current

[00:43:02] [SPEAKER_00]: tasting right now and we're beginning we're gonna start your soon for the first time ever

[00:43:07] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm all this a flight only to go back to the roots the roots of who we were because you know

[00:43:13] [SPEAKER_00]: we've got options but we still want to talk about our flagship white our flagship white is

[00:43:17] [SPEAKER_00]: all the time yeah I'm all this a five ways I love that and and Kunwass we were the first

[00:43:22] [SPEAKER_00]: plant Kunwass in this we are who brought Kunwass to Texas so yeah it's important right

[00:43:27] [SPEAKER_01]: you never get to be sure absolutely absolutely um what is a tasting typically cost 25 and then

[00:43:34] [SPEAKER_00]: you can join elevated for 35 okay but we I'm we're adamant tracing our both adamant if

[00:43:39] [SPEAKER_00]: someone is going down that tasting sheet and they do not appear to be enjoying themselves

[00:43:44] [SPEAKER_00]: we want our staff we've empowered our staff to say see those cues see the cue is read the

[00:43:50] [SPEAKER_00]: and stop and say are you liking this I and I yeah do you want go dry or do you want to go

[00:43:56] [SPEAKER_00]: sweeter do you want to skip everything here if you just drink sweet lines then look just let me

[00:44:02] [SPEAKER_00]: pray a glass just have a glass while these others are ooing and offing and sniffing and

[00:44:07] [SPEAKER_00]: hopp on aftering so fancy you know like you don't have stands for us but we're pretty a glass of sweet

[00:44:12] [SPEAKER_00]: and we have sold more wine that way we have created an audience that feels at home here

[00:44:19] [SPEAKER_00]: unintimidated and like they can just be themselves and you know what they drink that's

[00:44:24] [SPEAKER_00]: me for two or three years and suddenly they're like why can that dry rose eh and they'll pop right

[00:44:28] [SPEAKER_00]: over with kills me they will skip two or three notches of you know good drink dry drinkable wine

[00:44:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and land in the saroth rock or get category and it's like going from a golf cart to a Mazda

[00:44:42] [SPEAKER_00]: to a Mazda Roddy you know and I just enjoy watching that have a progression cultivating

[00:44:48] [SPEAKER_01]: a pallet with people and I think that's good for my listeners to know that let's say you get

[00:44:52] [SPEAKER_01]: a wine or two into it you don't know if you're not feeling it you don't have to complete that

[00:44:56] [SPEAKER_01]: flight just talk to the server and say you know maybe I want to go a different direction

[00:44:59] [SPEAKER_01]: and y'all are willing to customize that and work with them 100% sure. That's right good for them to

[00:45:03] [SPEAKER_00]: know and then what are your typical operating hours both here as well as a sharing of sport so I'm

[00:45:12] [SPEAKER_00]: because we're farming and share we're open every day okay and I believe it's noon to six

[00:45:19] [SPEAKER_00]: okay um you know to six during the weekdays and then starting Friday I think for your open

[00:45:24] [SPEAKER_01]: in the 1130 yeah so perfect and they can go to the website to get all that information

[00:45:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I needed to play a sister so I just like to usually ask well owners are not good with the

[00:45:34] [SPEAKER_00]: detail I got the details in the POS all I have to mean team I'm interviewing wine makers

[00:45:40] [SPEAKER_01]: are back at the house people and a lot of times I get to these questions they're like I'm

[00:45:44] [SPEAKER_01]: really sure how much a tasting cost or I'm not how many wise do we have all that again let me

[00:45:48] [SPEAKER_01]: get me and I'm just like that's okay there's a website for that kind of stuff I just

[00:45:51] [SPEAKER_01]: like to ask it as part of the interview so what about things like family friendly or pet friendly

[00:45:57] [SPEAKER_01]: if people have kids they want to bring their dogs yes to just see the part where my child came in

[00:46:02] [SPEAKER_00]: and gotten the fetal fish on my lap yeah we are 100% family oriented we welcome me and we welcome

[00:46:08] [SPEAKER_00]: young mothers you welcome young you know single parents who are working looking for an activity

[00:46:13] [SPEAKER_00]: we welcome everybody red bright blue you name it you know all the all with all the things

[00:46:19] [SPEAKER_00]: all good everyone is welcome here and so is your dog now they must be well mannered

[00:46:23] [SPEAKER_00]: they must be leash and well mannered pet take it that's in kids well not leash that's

[00:46:27] [SPEAKER_00]: certainly good but we were the all pet your kid on a leash if it's climb in my wall

[00:46:32] [SPEAKER_00]: we reserved the right to we just say we reserved right to keep them and take them for farm labor

[00:46:37] [SPEAKER_00]: okay yeah so go earn their way yeah yeah if your kid cannot behave well in public

[00:46:43] [SPEAKER_01]: yes it needs a job and we've got that in it about this but it's just yeah

[00:46:48] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah you got a lot of jobs they didn't do yeah so but no we welcome

[00:46:53] [SPEAKER_00]: please welcome everybody I mean that was part and that was part of why brownfield came into play

[00:46:59] [SPEAKER_00]: is because I I needed to create a space where everyone was welcome

[00:47:04] [SPEAKER_01]: well so what about like food options so do you offer food options to the taste room or

[00:47:09] [SPEAKER_01]: can people bring their own food or what does that look like okay but we grow fruit we grow

[00:47:14] [SPEAKER_00]: we grow a food we grow fiber and we grow fruit so we're gonna feed you really well

[00:47:19] [SPEAKER_00]: we're pretty famous for our shorty-tory um they just because it is ample okay but I also in 20 years

[00:47:25] [SPEAKER_00]: have watched what over serving can do and we don't do it but I don't know what you've

[00:47:29] [SPEAKER_00]: trained before you got here or what you intend to drink after what stage and people

[00:47:33] [SPEAKER_01]: wine journey they're on it already been to five or ten places yes and so we want to make sure

[00:47:38] [SPEAKER_00]: we feed people and feed them well and yeah we grow food it's important it's important it's important

[00:47:44] [SPEAKER_00]: it's important the you know where your food came from right it's important that you understand

[00:47:49] [SPEAKER_00]: you're probably wearing a good percentage of cotton and if you've got any cash in your pocket

[00:47:55] [SPEAKER_00]: that's 75% cotton so before you take a stance on farming issues that you know nothing about

[00:48:00] [SPEAKER_00]: make sure you enter your pocket no way come from that's all another thing yeah can't argue with

[00:48:06] [SPEAKER_00]: me about what you think farmers are doing because you're rent something on the internet right

[00:48:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and tell your naked and sober and hungry okay and then you have a bad one you might have something

[00:48:14] [SPEAKER_00]: to say down and talk to me about it yes food options we do butterboards as well and yeah

[00:48:21] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah and popcorn free popcorn oh that's how it is my favorite thing for many reasons always has

[00:48:26] [SPEAKER_01]: been in set up waste or crap yeah yeah to me I was like this is ingenious when I was having

[00:48:31] [SPEAKER_01]: it takes you as like this is a really smart thing is that by low spot corn yes everybody loves

[00:48:36] [SPEAKER_01]: popcorn and you get that salt to know that really helps that's a very smart thing on my on your

[00:48:42] [SPEAKER_00]: part and when you walk in and you smell fresh popcorn yeah it makes you happy and correct the salt

[00:48:47] [SPEAKER_00]: in the lip and surround in the starch all do wonderful things for the wines yeah keeps a little

[00:48:51] [SPEAKER_00]: tapy yeah there you go you know that is far marketing you do get a parent that is struggling

[00:48:57] [SPEAKER_00]: and is trying to have an adult experience um that buys them sometimes 15 20 minutes yeah

[00:49:02] [SPEAKER_00]: you know to to be able to focus and hear about what we do yeah and that I would love to take

[00:49:07] [SPEAKER_00]: credit for that um lashwob okay I grew up in the northwest you know tires your life

[00:49:14] [SPEAKER_00]: revolves around when you get your winter tires put on your so your snow tires just set it

[00:49:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I mean you get some tests yeah I'm taking off my back on and every wash every last

[00:49:22] [SPEAKER_00]: Schwab um who was a genius in marketing yeah hand a popcorn machine yeah and so you

[00:49:27] [SPEAKER_00]: walked into your shoes and fell bit rubber tires and fresh popcorn there's a smell there that

[00:49:32] [SPEAKER_00]: takes it back to you I can tell you what it's like it's funny yeah so

[00:49:37] [SPEAKER_00]: old factories funny for me well factories awesome when when you grow up selling something that

[00:49:42] [SPEAKER_00]: people don't need you know you're you're a carnival barker from the get go I mean

[00:49:47] [SPEAKER_00]: his age I can tell you that 5500 bronze because I'd done my fair share of time and

[00:49:52] [SPEAKER_00]: a roof with my parents and we hear the rhetoric over and over again the message then you begin

[00:49:57] [SPEAKER_00]: to pay attention you know through our spouses and apparently whenever you want to say about the

[00:50:02] [SPEAKER_00]: thing that makes you feel good seen and heard when you go somewhere and pick them up so

[00:50:09] [SPEAKER_01]: that's why that's what the brand is card out to be well do you have any maximum group sizes or

[00:50:15] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean you're to kind of a small little place here do you try to limit that or do you recommend

[00:50:19] [SPEAKER_01]: people have reservations ahead of time or walk you know if you want to make a reservation because

[00:50:24] [SPEAKER_00]: you're um of a personality that's much more organized than myself you're welcome to do so

[00:50:29] [SPEAKER_00]: you're welcome to yourself we love that out you thank you unless you are a party of eight or more

[00:50:34] [SPEAKER_00]: you know then it's kind of like if you're well in here with 15 people sure it might take

[00:50:39] [SPEAKER_00]: us some arrangement but we're still gonna get to you sure we've had parties as big as 40 okay

[00:50:44] [SPEAKER_00]: you know we just spill outside and we will close for prime amendments if you've got the pocket

[00:50:50] [SPEAKER_00]: book to do so and then our wine club parties is you know we fit 300 people on the side

[00:50:55] [SPEAKER_00]: when utilizing it stand a certain and all the outdoors and all the outdoor area correct but

[00:51:01] [SPEAKER_00]: we also love um people if we're jamming and it's packed and there's two people in here

[00:51:06] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah I'll walk in and say hang on my dinner hokey pokey I've got two more these people are great

[00:51:10] [SPEAKER_00]: they're awesome get along and you can kind of just get a feel for you might fit in the room

[00:51:14] [SPEAKER_00]: and people end up as you know talking with each other finding all these things in common

[00:51:19] [SPEAKER_00]: then walk you know if they walk in strangers you walk out of the comments and sell

[00:51:23] [SPEAKER_00]: I love that yeah I love that we have a saying and it's not ours you know I don't know

[00:51:27] [SPEAKER_00]: how to originate but we utilize and we branded it with some different artwork and whatnot

[00:51:32] [SPEAKER_00]: call that takes a minute and a village because villages are super important yeah and it's nice

[00:51:38] [SPEAKER_00]: it's not nice it's imperative that you recognize all the individuality within your villagers

[00:51:44] [SPEAKER_00]: the community and contributions from everyone correct and we've gotten some string based

[00:51:48] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah and so remote and looks like a ball um that we're losing out on the wealth and the beauty

[00:51:56] [SPEAKER_00]: of having a strong village so that's why our tasting rooms are in houses and it was still

[00:52:02] [SPEAKER_00]: lippressed because we just want you to feel for coming over at home living room correct

[00:52:07] [SPEAKER_00]: and having wine with friends cool sound yeah well um do you have any what are your

[00:52:13] [SPEAKER_01]: busier slow or seas of put the best time to come visit oh we're still slow do you see all these

[00:52:17] [SPEAKER_00]: people drive my I mean they had seen the wine country on the internet and they are

[00:52:25] [SPEAKER_00]: hell bent to get to the palatial estates and the brands that look just like napa and the

[00:52:32] [SPEAKER_00]: giraffes and the catholt and the rhinos and the monkeys who learn all those things should

[00:52:37] [SPEAKER_00]: they want to drink some real wine though they stop on Monday yeah after they've seen our

[00:52:42] [SPEAKER_00]: name on lots of people and they're on their way out then you're designated bottles yeah so

[00:52:48] [SPEAKER_00]: there's some you're welcome here anytime there's probably gonna be a couch available for you

[00:52:52] [SPEAKER_01]: always gonna be a spot for you yeah well tell me you mentioned a moment ago about your wine

[00:52:57] [SPEAKER_00]: club so what is your wine club look like we have three now or our original was called

[00:53:01] [SPEAKER_00]: paider because everything we do comes right out of that turn yeah paid and tell me

[00:53:06] [SPEAKER_00]: and then we got a cease and assist from a brand in California

[00:53:09] [SPEAKER_00]: and you hey we finally made it right you know yeah yeah yeah that's our in those week

[00:53:13] [SPEAKER_00]: and the splitters and so we kind of chuckle them in serving an r and call it prayeder

[00:53:18] [SPEAKER_00]: because you can't be a farmer and pray can't be a parent come up yes so um

[00:53:25] [SPEAKER_00]: prayer is our original wine club it's capped okay and so but we never actually I think twice in

[00:53:31] [SPEAKER_00]: our life we've hit the way it ends yeah and but that's the one that includes choosing

[00:53:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and your products from the farm 20% off winds at all time complimentary um tasting or glass

[00:53:40] [SPEAKER_00]: for you and three guests when you come in two either and our our benefits and perks still to

[00:53:45] [SPEAKER_00]: book properties a 10% off of lodging because they have two three technically now two here

[00:53:52] [SPEAKER_00]: and one in the high plains um lodging opportunities and 10% off of anything branded

[00:53:57] [SPEAKER_00]: a phd merch hmm again it's important when our villagers go out and they

[00:54:01] [SPEAKER_00]: short by wearing our brand yeah so and then we have our farmers market and that's a u pick situation

[00:54:07] [SPEAKER_00]: so you can pick your three wines if you're three rosé is a growth three multiple teonos

[00:54:12] [SPEAKER_00]: you know it's just a three bottle minimum and you can add those other perks on just for a fee

[00:54:18] [SPEAKER_00]: yeah and then cultivated is our case club and the case club gets all of those benefits plus

[00:54:23] [SPEAKER_00]: and little bit deeper discount they get 25% okay so cool yeah which is you know kind of near wholesale

[00:54:29] [SPEAKER_01]: can people sign up online or do they have to come in they can they can find a home on the right

[00:54:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll give you my cell and we're like kind of right now yeah we want to do a chi on that

[00:54:38] [SPEAKER_01]: and stuff over all that don't you worry so do you do any kind so you've got these two

[00:54:44] [SPEAKER_01]: tasting rooms you've got all this um do you do any kind of distribution in any kind so people

[00:54:49] [SPEAKER_01]: can't come here or does their way from the meditation one was small we're self-distributed okay

[00:54:53] [SPEAKER_00]: we did just get into the the new pulmon market in San Antonio which is love huge compliment they

[00:54:59] [SPEAKER_00]: saw us out oh wow yeah we don't actively go out and seek distribution just because we're not

[00:55:04] [SPEAKER_00]: under staff to pour it so what happens is usually people come in they have a friend

[00:55:10] [SPEAKER_00]: who's opening a small wine bar you know or relative they tell them about it and then say

[00:55:15] [SPEAKER_00]: call them you should call or however it just we're very organic in it okay we could do a better job

[00:55:21] [SPEAKER_00]: but you know we got a lot of iron in the fire there's a lot of iron's in the fire to begin with

[00:55:25] [SPEAKER_01]: and so what do you sell on your website so people can order that way if they can

[00:55:29] [SPEAKER_00]: say yeah we're not shipping right now because of the heat okay we take the summers off

[00:55:34] [SPEAKER_00]: we will if you're a patient human and trust us to watch the weather which is all we do is farmers

[00:55:40] [SPEAKER_00]: and we know there's cold front coming in and we can gain 10 degrees and we think it's safe

[00:55:43] [SPEAKER_00]: based on where your location is what you're shipping we will sometimes ship on a case by case

[00:55:48] [SPEAKER_01]: basis yeah no pun intended or pun intended yeah yeah yeah yeah place for future growth you talked

[00:55:57] [SPEAKER_01]: about purchasing that vineyard now yes you shake your head no as you just said we just bought more

[00:56:03] [SPEAKER_01]: but yeah you have any place to expand anything or other types of ways that you want to grow

[00:56:08] [SPEAKER_00]: not that we know and okay but you know in 2020 the guys brought home 800 head of sheep so

[00:56:13] [SPEAKER_00]: because there was nothing going on in 2020 right and and that has grown to 5000 head of door

[00:56:18] [SPEAKER_00]: first which we use in the vineyards okay yeah so never say never I have been around long enough to

[00:56:25] [SPEAKER_00]: never say never right and I don't see us growing I see us plateauing or in this soft market

[00:56:32] [SPEAKER_00]: maybe creating a smaller maybe reducing okay you know reducing production reducing our

[00:56:39] [SPEAKER_00]: casual because we'll go anywhere and do anything we say yes everything just because I think we

[00:56:45] [SPEAKER_00]: wouldn't like you know we're at our eight-year mark and I always set up built a tenure brand

[00:56:50] [SPEAKER_00]: from the get-go you know I just wanted to act like very ten years old on day two if he

[00:56:55] [SPEAKER_00]: ended up this right because when we got to ten years I didn't want I haven't watched it in 20

[00:57:01] [SPEAKER_00]: years I'd seen people be like we're sold out at 3000 cases people are mad they can't get our wine

[00:57:08] [SPEAKER_00]: you know they want more we could go we could do this we could if we added a line here we could

[00:57:13] [SPEAKER_00]: do 20 more tables and 20 more tables with X amount of revenue and so they it turns into an engine

[00:57:19] [SPEAKER_00]: and you never catch up yeah you never catch up and I don't want our family to make that same mistake

[00:57:29] [SPEAKER_00]: and we saw where Texas my number you have caught right at this year about how many brands went out

[00:57:36] [SPEAKER_00]: last year yeah you know and it was a significant number and so if anything I think I just

[00:57:46] [SPEAKER_00]: want to educate the audience that we have and and critique anyone who's willing to be more passionate

[00:57:56] [SPEAKER_00]: about our original message okay and that is we are the growers we grew us true for the top

[00:58:02] [SPEAKER_00]: twenty wineries in Texas we sell 95% of what we grow to other people we keep the five percent for

[00:58:08] [SPEAKER_00]: ourselves but you asked as a marketing question how do we work that and it's our mantra it's our

[00:58:15] [SPEAKER_00]: we establish it the first say our tagline and it's we grow fruit that wine enthusiast seat

[00:58:20] [SPEAKER_00]: and that wineries doesn't meet with pride yeah and that's all we want yeah that's everything

[00:58:28] [SPEAKER_00]: else is second year yeah Tracy and Anthony and Nicholas and I and our children and the

[00:58:32] [SPEAKER_00]: 30 families that are in the vineyards and on the farm with us that's what we want you to know about

[00:58:37] [SPEAKER_00]: for him health okay yeah so if you care about where your food and your fiber comes from you want

[00:58:43] [SPEAKER_00]: that conversation you want to taste that with unparalleled hospitality then we're going to fit for

[00:58:49] [SPEAKER_01]: you yeah well that leads us to the final question and so of all the places that people could

[00:58:55] [SPEAKER_01]: go visit here either here in the hill country or in high-planes or throughout Texas what says

[00:59:00] [SPEAKER_01]: farmhouse apart that really makes it say somebody say I have to put that at the top of my list I

[00:59:05] [SPEAKER_00]: want to go check this place out sure our premium fruit made in a premium wine yeah and then

[00:59:10] [SPEAKER_00]: the unparalleled hospitality all right hospitality is it is yeah that's I'm stickler on it yeah

[00:59:17] [SPEAKER_00]: I'm a stickler on it I come my mother was just set the bar for welcoming clients with my dad

[00:59:26] [SPEAKER_00]: and his art business and then again my partners my family my everything they are raised to be humble

[00:59:35] [SPEAKER_00]: and modest and just knows to the grindstone work and let the food and the fiber and the fruit speak

[00:59:40] [SPEAKER_00]: for itself and yeah we I will dismantle a wine spot wine sounds for a sport I find it wildly entertaining

[00:59:49] [SPEAKER_00]: but ultimately well I'm going to meet you on middle ground because they just want the product to

[00:59:54] [SPEAKER_00]: speak for itself you know so I think I think and we're going to splash you up until you find

[01:00:00] [SPEAKER_00]: something that you like you know we're just not going to stay on the flight she or for

[01:00:05] [SPEAKER_00]: keep in mind like we open that reserve surah yesterday because I had some amazing people in

[01:00:09] [SPEAKER_00]: from Pennsylvania they could really knew their wines and drink wine and that sucker is eight years away

[01:00:14] [SPEAKER_00]: from man ready I mean it was drinkable but it wasn't not your socks off right you can talk and not

[01:00:20] [SPEAKER_00]: because it's poorly made because it made right and it's she's not there yet yeah you know and so if you

[01:00:26] [SPEAKER_00]: really want to talk about how wine is grown and made and the people who do it were the brand

[01:00:32] [SPEAKER_00]: where only as good as our people who have their boots on the ground and for us that looks like

[01:00:37] [SPEAKER_00]: our vineyard crew our vineyard crew is an 98% female land oh okay yeah and so the vine at

[01:00:42] [SPEAKER_00]: self is female hey come here this is gonna be your turn yeah you know anatomy wise truly she is she

[01:00:48] [SPEAKER_00]: has a crotch she gives birth yeah and that's why mint inches are notable and people get got about

[01:00:53] [SPEAKER_00]: and a healthy vineyard has no holes right yeah we have cordons and wires and and they lock arms

[01:00:59] [SPEAKER_00]: and and are the rockets and so that is something that is really important to me

[01:01:06] [SPEAKER_00]: giving credit and putting a face on the Mexican culture like we talked about earlier

[01:01:11] [SPEAKER_00]: that is the reason we have wine on the North American continent and so the families that work

[01:01:16] [SPEAKER_00]: on the farm with us not for us I want their names to be known I want their faces to be seen you know

[01:01:23] [SPEAKER_00]: the heart to heart and soul of their children so like we drive around I'll say and you know

[01:01:29] [SPEAKER_00]: beat up white trucks with bob tires and we're worried about the debt and it's our name on the

[01:01:33] [SPEAKER_00]: debt and ultimately there's no heavier weight to carry that but the people who are going across

[01:01:39] [SPEAKER_00]: those when you're in slethe right in the sun and the rain and the fleet that those farmers

[01:01:44] [SPEAKER_01]: are the most interesting and recognized what your favorite part of what your mom does here

[01:01:51] [SPEAKER_00]: a war tool in palpani us grow yeah we can make I blow the money do you get to go out

[01:02:01] [SPEAKER_01]: do you get to go out in the vineyard and work on the vines carrying more yeah do you like to go

[01:02:05] [SPEAKER_00]: harvest and cut the grapes yeah he and grown up sampling with me in the front pack and so when

[01:02:12] [SPEAKER_00]: he was like three and four this kids pal it was a razor sharp if he had tasted everything that

[01:02:17] [SPEAKER_00]: year and so I have a fun story that was a of a plan of ours well a friend of ours now but she

[01:02:23] [SPEAKER_00]: is the prison I met you you were rolling in a cake at the Malat and bit center and you had

[01:02:27] [SPEAKER_00]: a three-year-old kid screaming I want to taste the tempering you I want to taste the tempering me

[01:02:32] [SPEAKER_00]: you long not why would you let me and I was like I'm not drinking publics yes and so that's

[01:02:38] [SPEAKER_00]: she meant with playing but do parents but then I infused him like anybody I had a really great

[01:02:45] [SPEAKER_00]: tool on my hands and I mean I'm dance monkey and taste and nose winds and talk about him in

[01:02:50] [SPEAKER_00]: front of people and he got burned out yeah got you I'm blind out we just don't want to do it yeah

[01:02:54] [SPEAKER_00]: tired of it so now you'll notice the wine and you'll sing greats right you're not doing that

[01:03:01] [SPEAKER_01]: you gotta keep that inside you can't share that with everybody what's your favorite tractor

[01:03:06] [SPEAKER_00]: the 80 to 90 fly on oh and when you rather plant, plow or sandfight

[01:03:15] [SPEAKER_00]: phone you don't need to

[01:03:19] [SPEAKER_00]: no crap

[01:03:20] [SPEAKER_00]: you like planty I don't know is tan pite or what is daddy call is him piteer but she can get not chicken picker that's

[01:03:28] [SPEAKER_00]: different but you can picker stuff right more get me anything I get educated all the time

[01:03:33] [SPEAKER_00]: and of all the cups cotton peanut, wait watermelon's pumpkins grapes or sheep with your favorite

[01:03:39] [SPEAKER_00]: cotton you like cotton best I love cotton too mom what's your favorite why my favorite wine is

[01:03:47] [SPEAKER_01]: when i'm drinking with people that I love and trust all right it definitely takes a village like

[01:04:00] [SPEAKER_01]: you heard Katy Jane talk about in that interview and you know what her commitment not only to her

[01:04:05] [SPEAKER_01]: families we got to hear from one of their future proprietors her son McClaying

[01:04:10] [SPEAKER_01]: her commitment to that family as well as to her work to the wine that she's making

[01:04:15] [SPEAKER_01]: to the whole operation their farmhouse to their employees that commitment is readily seen in her

[01:04:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and in the products that they're providing their farmhouse vineyards it shines through and that's what

[01:04:27] [SPEAKER_01]: makes farmhouse vineyards one of the most respected growers of Texas grapes here in this amazing state

[01:04:33] [SPEAKER_01]: and this amazing wine region we have and don't forget make sure to check out their website before

[01:04:39] [SPEAKER_01]: you go visit it's www.farmhousevignard.com there you're going to find some really cool stuff about

[01:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: their wine clubs that she talked about you'll be able to see more history and information about the

[01:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: vineyard you'll be able to see information about some of the other crops that they have

[01:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: and they even have this really cool tab at the top for recipes where you'll find lots of really

[01:05:01] [SPEAKER_01]: farm-detainable style recipes that are going to pair perfectly with the great wines that you're

[01:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: going to get there at farmhouse vineyards now when I was there I got to do a tasting of several

[01:05:13] [SPEAKER_01]: of their amazing wines and as usual had such a hard time deciding what was my favorite because

[01:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: everything was so good but I finally had to settle down on one and I picked their 2019 reserve

[01:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: petite sarah so this was an amazing wine if you get a chance to taste this or buy a bottle of

[01:05:30] [SPEAKER_01]: this when you go a highly encourage it had some amazing color to it is such a deep-rich color

[01:05:36] [SPEAKER_01]: it had some awesome dark fruit flavors with some smokiness kind of on the palate it was so good

[01:05:42] [SPEAKER_01]: that I had to definitely purchase that and that became my wine library bottle for this episode

[01:05:48] [SPEAKER_01]: all right well that brings us towards the end and so it's time for me to get ready to travel

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