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Guests Climb Aboard for Regional Wine Tours|Explore the Upper East Side of Texas

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November 26, 2022
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A trip bus end up a picturesque sun-touched hill at Enoch’s Stomp Vineyard & & Winery north of Marshall.Visitors enjoy the stunning rows of grapevines and expect tasting the red wines. They listen intently as their tourist guide explains the winery’s quick history.

When the bus parks at the top of the hill travelers disembark and go into a roomy white wine tasting space and dining establishment. They sit delicately at a wood table and examine menu cards noting the red wines while taking in the sights and noises.

A red wine ambassador describes that each range is made at the vineyard with a particular function and taste in mind. Dry, sweet, or in between. Red, rosé, blush, or white. The card explains the particular mix of each and visitors are informed to choose 3 classifications of red wines.

The white wine ambassador returns with bottle and glasses and puts a little ounce of each range. Before putting she names each white wine and explains its taste. Guests talk about the tastes. Some dump red wines they do not like into a container while others drink them gingerly. Everyone discovers something they like.

Rating the red wines assists visitors prepare the red wines they wish to purchase prior to departure. Variety was certainly an emphasize at Enoch’s tasting space. Everyone in the trip group took pleasure in a sweet light blush white wine called Susan’s Secret however all were tastefully enjoyable.

Meanwhile, tourist guide Melanie and Tony Juays sit silently at a side table on the other side of the tasting space. Tony is driving the trip bus to 2 more areas and Melanie has great deals of details to share about wineries and viticulture. Both distribute treats and little water bottles as travelers go back to the van.







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Tony Juays drives the bus for Lekker Wine Tours.


Photo by Lisa Tang


The Juays are sharing their love for the richness and taste of white wine through their brand-new touring service,Lekker Wine Tours They desire visitors to see the stunning countryside while discovering the Upper East Side of Texas area’s 30 wineries.

The name Lekker Wine Tours is a purposeful option.

Lekker (noticable le-kah) is a slang term in Afrikaans– the native language of South Africa– and a nod to the household’s homeland. The household emigrated from the cosmopolitan nation at Africa’s southern pointer in 2005.

The term “lekker” uses a range of significances, states kid and service partner Garrett Juays.

“Its direct translation is ‘great,’ however we’ll utilize it for whatever– scrumptious, wholesome, remarkable– however not pompous or prominent,” Garrett states. “[It means] we’re going to have a good time; we’re going to have a lekker time; it’s going to be really interesting however it’s not stuffy.”

The trips integrate the Juays’ knowledge of the hospitality field integrated with their enthusiasm for white wine and entrepreneurship.

“This service is the story of 3 friends who occur to be mom and dad and kid,” Garrett states. “And all 3 people are really entrepreneurial. A great deal of concepts have actually come through and we’re certainly not scared of beginning originalities.”

Some of the household’s business are payroll, human relations, and accounting, which they provided for Walker’s Mill Vineyard inHallsville As Melanie ended up being more knowledgeable about the area’s white wine service she started thinking of the possibility of hosting trips.

“It simply appeared like we were doing not have in East Texas someone who would take individuals around to wineries and get to satisfy the owners, see their enthusiasm for what they were doing, [and] hear their stories of how their vineyards happened,” she states.

The existing trip is along the Lekker Wine Tour’s so-called Lantana Region– Marshall, Jefferson, Gilmer, Naples, Pittsburg, Longview, andKilgore The Juays selected names of durable native Texas plants for each of their 4 white wine trip areas.

Tours of 3 other areas are likewise readily available. The Azalea Region consists of wineries in Athens, Trinidad, and Palestine and the Petunia Region trips facilities in Canton, Lindale, andMineola The Rose Region consists of Tyler and far-flung neighborhoods.







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Grapevines at Walker’s Mill Vineyard & & Winery inHallsville


Photo by Lisa Tang


Walker’s Mill Vineyard inHallsville is the 2nd stop on the Lantana day’s 3 part journey. The winery owned by Art and Adriana Strahan is perfectly selected and includes rows of muscadine grapes– the only grape range belonging to East Texas.







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Melanie Juays (left) and Adriana Strahan take pleasure in red white wine produced by Walker’s Mill Vineyard & &Winery


Courtesy Photo by(* )made from muscadines have a crimson taste that provides itself well to sweet and dessert red wines. A red wine ambassador leads the tasting by describing each bottle’s name, mix, and taste. A preferred at this stop is the blueberry white wine– the only white wine not made with muscadine grapes.Tony Juays


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After’s Walker and tasting the red wines it’s simple to see why the Mill imagined establishing Strahans’s Walker into the gem of a winery it is today.Mill curates the wine-paired supper at his dining establishment.







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Britt Davis by


Courtesy Photo bus heads to Tony Juays


The where Kilgore’s Britt and Wine is the 3rd stop. Dine dining establishment inhabits the snack bar of a previous primary school and uses a roomy and open dining-room with a full-length bar.The tastings are coupled with a three-course supper on this trip– which can be organized by demand.

Wine food and red wines are handcrafted by ownerThe Britt Davis is a self-described food lover who makes his own red wines from grapes grown in He.West Texas presents each white wine as it’s served and describes his option.

Davis emphasize of the supper is a buttery chicken leg and thigh roasted in a bourbon vanilla peach glaze and coupled with his dry rosé The & &Jess white wine.Judy wine-paired supper at







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The & &(* )includes a buttery roasted chicken quarter baked in a peach, vanilla, and bourbon sauce.Britt’s Wine by Dine motivates visitors to trust their own tastes buds as they sample red wines.


Photo”Lisa Tang


Davis taste ought to truly roll throughout your tongue with this white wine,” he states.

is an abundant pecan pie which he serves with a red wine called The’s

Dessert made with grapes fromBritt Paramour likewise presents a red wine called Napa Valley– a He white wine and mix of Pinot Tage.South African are not the area’s only white wine lovers initially from Pinot Noir.

The Juays and South Africa at







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Melanie Juays & & Altus Kronenberg near Enoch’s Stomp Vineyard.Winery by Marshall farmer


Courtesy Photo moved with his household to Tony Juays


Former South African in 2001 and opened Altus Koegelenberg’s Texas with Enoch chemistStomp Texas set up a winery in a refurbished barn and opened in 2009. Jon Kral winery has actually experienced development of 20 percent each year.They south of The is another winery established by previous

Kiepersol farmer Tyler de South African in 1998 and now run by his children Pierre andWet Marnelle lies along the Velmay’s Kiepersol that consists of M6 Lekker in Rose Region and Winery in Bullard.Briar Creek Vineyards describes that making and delighting in red wines are popular leisure activities amongst Whitehouse nationals.

Melanie”South African’s a

thing I inform you,” she states. “It’s something we gravitate to quickly.”South African’ global experience has actually assisted them determine the quality of wineries in the It of

The Juays and they aspire to get the word out about their trips.Upper East Side is using a contest for a complimentary trip for a celebration of approximately 8 worth $1,000 through completion of 2022 and a drawing for one complimentary trip worth $95 every month. Texas can sign up an e-mail address on the

Lekker site at Contestants.Lekker trips can keep up as couple of as 6 tourists or as numerous as 20. www.lekkerwine.tours normally run

The as a lot of wineries open their tasting spaces to the general public on weekends.Tours half-day trips consist of tastings at 3 wineries and cost $95 per individual. Saturdays day trips offer tastings at 5 wineries and cost $150 per individual.

Most now uses beer and white wine trips that consist of a stop at one brewery and 2 wineries for $95.Full of the trips can be tailored according to what celebrations wish to experience. A customized curated trip can enable visitors to discover what takes place behind the scenes at a regional vineyard or experience a wine-paired meal– and almost any other demand.

Lekker”

Any customized prepare the trip according to what the visitors desire,”

states.We the Melanie at the

Meet in Juays 14 and 15, register for a trip, or find out more at Pineywoods Wine Festival.Lindale October

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