AUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) – The Texas Whiskey Festival has announced the date and venue for its second annual event: April 19th at the Star Hill Ranch near Bee Cave Texas. The event provides a casual and informative opportunity for whiskey enthusiasts to meet Texas’ master blenders and distillers, while enjoying an evening of food, entertainment and cigar pairings designed to complement the craft whiskey brands showcased at the event.
“Last year’s inaugural event was such a success that we outgrew our venue – so we’re hosting this year’s Festival at the much larger Star Hill Ranch outside of Bee Cave, Texas,” said event co-founder Jake Clements. “This amazing venue is a classic old west town that’s served as a set for Hollywood films, and its main street and many air-conditioned buildings provide the perfect setting for the food, music, and of course the whiskey that we’ll present and share with all in attendance.”
The Texas Whiskey Festival is a fun and entertaining event that lets whiskey enthusiasts meet the distillers and master blenders who are making Texas’ best spirits. The evening provides a perfect setting for educating whiskey lovers and introducing them to not only top-shelf whiskeys produced throughout the State, but also to a handful of participating wineries. Extensive food selections, cigar pairings and live entertainment are sure to make the 2019 event memorable for whiskey enthusiasts and also for the state’s most innovative distillers.
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Event founders are pleased to announce that a number of favorite distilleries are participating, including: Still Austin Whiskey Co; Andalusia Whiskey Co; Balcones Distilling; Treaty Oak Distilling; 1876 Bourbon; Yellow Rose Distilling; and Garrison Brothers. Details on new and additional distilleries will be made available in the weeks ahead, and distilleries interested in participating are invited to contact: distilleries@txwhiskeyfest.com.
- Sponsors interested in interacting with more than 500 attending whiskey enthusiasts can contact: sponsor@txwhiskeyfest.com.
- Accommodations are available at the Sonesta Bee Cave, which is partnering with the Festival to offer discounts and group packages for attendees.
- Members of the media interested in attending, or being a media partner are encouraged to contact media@txwhiskeyfest.com.
Additional details on sponsors, awards programs, and participating distilleries will be made available via the event’s Facebook page, at facebook.com/TXWhiskeyFest.
About the Texas Whiskey Festival
The mission of the festival is simple: To help promote and enhance the brands of the many great distilleries throughout Texas. Along with promotion, we want to educate whiskey lovers about the many top-of-the-line whiskeys being produced in our great state – and we’re doing it all while having fun, drinking great whiskey, and building memorable experiences. As an organization, we know that Texas has some of the best distilleries and whiskeys in the world. The Texas Whiskey Festival is an opportunity to showcase that. For more information, please visit: https://txwhiskeyfest.com.
Freeman topped an impressive field of 25 other competitors in a rigorous three-part wine examination involving service, blind tasting and theory. An elite panel of Master Sommelier judges named Freeman the 2018 TEXSOM Best Sommelier at a ceremony on Monday evening. The competition is a traditional part of TEXSOM. To participate, candidates must be a current resident of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, New Mexico, or Texas and must not have passed the Court of Master Sommeliers’ Advanced Sommelier Examination or won the competition previously.
AVV is one of an elite group of wineries recognized as a Bay Area Green Business. They became a member of the California Sustainable Winegrowing Program in 2006 and achieved vineyard certification in 2014. AVV bottled their first wine produced from organic certified grapes in 2008, today the family organically farms over 30 acres and offers two wines from 100% California Certified Organic Farmers (CCOF) grapes. A second family vineyard will receive CCOF certification in June 2018. Other AVV sustainable initiatives include solar arrays that supply about half of the winery’s power; cover crop plantings to minimize pesticide use and control erosion; drip irrigation for precise water management; 25,000 square feet of underground, naturally cooled caves that reduce the winery’s carbon footprint; and installation of variable speed drives on all winery equipment to decrease energy waste.
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Whiskies are judged on a 100-point basis with a concentration on appearance, aromatics, flavor, mouthfeel and finish. Blind judging was performed by a panel of eighteen Texas tastemakers who are all influential figures in the state’s beverage industry. The panel included: David “Bart” Bartlett – Whisky Guru at Beverage World; Jeff Boley – Beverage Manager Townsend; Jeramy Campbell – Assistant Manager Seven Grand Whisky Bar; Carly Dunavant – Bartender; Aisling Gammill – Lead Bartender Whisler’s; Dennis Gobis – Co-Owner The Roosevelt Room and Eleanor; Mike Groener – CEO Genius Liquids; Jennifer Keyser – Beverage Director Holy Roller; Justin Lavenue – Co-owner The Roosevelt Room and Eleanor; Lana Lindsley – Bulleit Whiskey Ambassador; David Maguire – Co-owner The Austin Shaker; John McEntire – Spirits Consultant Twin Liquors; Florian Minier – Bartender Small Victory; Adrian Montanez – Manager Twin Liquors; Purav Patel – Owner Village Liquors; Mike Raymond – Owner Reserve 101; Ken Seeber – Spirits Consultant Twin Liquors; Kevin Stein – Regional Manager Twin Liquors
Leading the culinary team is celebrated 