Chisholm Trail Winery, Fredericksburg TX

Won't take a group of 15 even though there was only the bartenders in bar and no other reservations booked for the day

This place had been a favorite of ours for years, with our last visit in 2018. We drove out in August 2021 to find that it was closed, so I checked the website on this trip (May 5,2023) to see that reservations were required. Made reservations and we were sadly disappointed! Winery is for sale (for 6 years now per the owner) and the wine tasting was for wines that have been in stock since 2019 or prior, with nothing new made in many years. Only one of our group of 4 did the tasting due to the wine selections in the tasting, so it was a total waste of time for our group to travel out that far for the experience we got. The tasting room hasn’t been updated in years and felt dark and dirty, with for sale or sold signs on things sitting around inside. The owner is super nice, but you can tell that her mind is on retirement and she has no desire to make the experience enjoyable. She opens and closes when we she wants to…not sure why she’s even open anymore except to get rid of the stock she still has at a cheap price. Save your time and choose another place that offers a much better experience.