Texas winemakers Wine for the Folks and William Chris Wine Firm (WCWC) are teaming as much as open a brand new tasting room in Fredericksburg in January 2024.
Wine for the Folks founder Rae Wilson and companion Anne Spalding are overseeing the opening of the model’s first Hill Nation location at 113 East Park St. Wilson’s Dandy Bubbles and La Valentína manufacturers are additionally going to be built-in with WCWC’s portfolio, in accordance with a press launch.
Wilson has been making wines for almost a decade, and has earlier expertise as a sommelier and wine educator. She has a longstanding historical past with the WCWC workforce, together with the Texas-based product sequence the Grower Challenge, which she co-founded in 2015 with Andrew Sides, the founding father of WCWC’s flagship model, Misplaced Draw Cellars.
Misplaced Draw Cellars beforehand occupied the Park Avenue location, and is present process its personal relocation to a brand new property winery in Johnson Metropolis as of January 1.
“I couldn’t be happier to have Rae and Anne becoming a member of our workforce,” stated WCWC founder and CEO Chris Brundrett within the launch. “As a fellow champion of the Texas wine business, Rae has been a companion to us in some ways for a very long time, so it feels extremely pure to have Wine for the Folks develop into a part of our household at William Chris.”
The transfer to the Hill Nation leaves behind Wine for the Folks’s Austin tasting room, which is now closed, in accordance with its web site. Wilson expressed her pleasure to embark on this new journey with WCWC within the launch.
“I’ve labored with Chris and Andrew for years on sourcing fruit and making wine collectively, and this transfer presents a possibility for our enterprise to flourish and develop into the Hill Nation to succeed in a brand new viewers of Texas wine lovers,” Wilson stated.
Wine for the Folks will host preview tastings for its members and Misplaced Draw members in December main as much as the official opening. Reservations for full wine tasting experiences on the Fredericksburg location start January 27, 2024, the web site says.
