While we were there, people were setting up for a wedding or reception in the smaller room. Next to the tasting room was now a 5,000 square foot event center with a smaller room inside with barrels surrounding the walls. We could understand immediately why people went to Enoch’s Stomp for lunch or dinner.
There were three large crab cakes and everything tasted great. We finally gave into temptation and ordered an appetizer of Crab Cakes with a trio of sauces. 2012 Blanc du Bois Off-Dry (a double-dose for us)Īs I said, our eyes kept gazing at the restaurant menu and everything looked fabulous on there.2011 Cabernet Sauvignon (Washington state).We couldn’t decide on which flight to get so we got one of each to share. Each tasting was done in a bottle with a small cork, similar to how some other wineries are doing their tastings now. Tastings were now done in two flights, a dry or sweet flight with five wines each. The winery was much more than just a winery now with a complete restaurant menu! We still opted to do a tasting of Enoch’s Stomp’s recent wines, but we kept gazing at that menu. The tasting room was much larger with tables, and as we took some seats at the tasting bar, we then understood why we were asked if we were there for lunch. One employee was outside helping some customers, said hello, and asked if we were there for lunch. When we go to the top of the hill, we noticed the new patio and deck since we were there last. Parking lot signs directed us down the hill where we parked and then we made the trek up the hill to the winery. What was a small building with the winery before was now a large building and we couldn’t park in front of it like we did before.
But when we got to the top of the hill, we were a little surprised because the place had changed a lot! As we made our way up the road to the winery, we noticed the vineyard was growing very nicely with the earlier rains we had this year. Remembering we missed the entrance to the winery last time, we had no problem finding it this time. The wineries in East Texas are located further away from each other just like the ones in the northern Hill Country, and that means there is a lot of driving usually required which unfortunately means visiting less wineries in one day. The last time we were at Enoch’s Stomp Vineyard & Winery was four years ago, so Enoch’s Stomp was a required visit on this trip. We made a recent trip to East Texas for the Downtown Tyler Wine Swirl and it was also time to visit wineries we hadn’t been to recently.