Flat Creek Estate

Pretty venue. Expensive tastings. If you check in with Unilocal you get to pet the dog for free. Nice waitstaff, nice owner. Not our taste in wine.

For us the best part of our visit here was the drive out and the property. While the tasting room staff was cordial, not a single wine on the list stood out as something we would want a full glass of, let alone a bottle. Of course wine is very subjective, so the places we love someone else may not, much as I am sure many people love the wines here. Our tasting person poured the wines out of order, skipping reds not offering to pour out the mispoured semisweet white, thus service was not stellar.
For us, I don’t see us being back here given how many stellar wineries suit our tastes in the Johnson City and Fredericksburg areas.
Also, this tasting was the most expensive of our tastings, which would be okay if the service was stellar and we liked the wine.

I have nothing but good things to say about Flat Creek. I came here for a low key bachelorette party with my bridesmaids, my mom and mother in law. From the very beginning we were welcomed and brought into a private room to start our tasting. The staff was warm, friendly and extremely educated on what they offer and do at their winery. We had a wonderful time trying all the wines during the tasting. After we finished up the tasting the actual winemaker and chef came and greeted us and let us know he would actually be giving us our private tour. He was amazing! It was the greatest wine tour any of us have ever been on. From trying wine right out of the barrels to answering all the silly questions my girls had. After we finished up our tour we bought a couple bottles of the amazing wine and champagne they offer and headed up to their bistro. The chef welcomed us into the kitchen gave us a little tour and showed us what he was making for their changing nightly menu. We ordered a couple cheese platters along with their pizzas. Amazing brick oven pizzas! The wine maker was generous enough to come back up and check on us and let us try a mead (honey wine). Overall they were the most generous, fun, and caring people. Truly giving us the best and most enjoyable experience we could of asked for. They went above and beyond for us and you can tell they really love their job and making people feel welcomed! Thank you so much Flat Creek! I cannot wait to return with my husband and more friends so they can have the same wonderful experience we had!

One of our local favorites!!! We adore the owners and staff! The wines are superb!!!

Flat Creek Vineyards Estate is about 45 miles from bee caves and truly is one of the most beautiful places in the Hill Country. I had the pleasure of meeting the chef and I will be returning for my birthday and enjoy the luxurious cabin they rent out. I truly love the restaurant in the winery which in fact was very selected and in good taste. Wines were paired off with the food served, my favorite was the chocolate cookie with olive oil ice cream, INCREDIBLE. My husband ordered the Lobster Risotto and Peach Brie was amazing and paired with red wine… loved it!!! After we ate we walked over to another building where they had the wine tasting room and for 15 dollars you get 6 tastings, the ambiance was truly sweet. The staff is very interesting and lovely people I had so much fun AND we will be returning very soon to enjoy another round of great food and good times!

Fantastic winery in the Lago Vista/​Marble Falls Hill Country. Flat Creek Vineyards was located very close to the cabin we were spending the weekend at and it was the perfect place to spend a cool, rainy afternoon. Wines are great, service was excellent and it was an overall great time. You must head over to the bistro on the property which was equally as excellent.

My wife and I tried Flat Creek for the first time today, starting with the Bistro and finishing up in the tasting room. I’ve been dragged to several wineries in the area that were good experiences, but this one really surprised me in the best possible way. The food was absolutely delightful! My wife had the pork rillette, trout, and chocolate chunk cookie, and I had the arugula salad, lamb chops, and crème brûlée. Everything was just perfect! My wife fell in love with the pork rillette. My favorite was the stolen bites of my wife’s chocolate cookie that comes with salted caramel and OLIVE OIL ice cream! Sadly, I don’t get surprised that often, but I was woefully unprepared for the deliciousness that is olive oil ice cream on top of that amazing chocolate cookie! Also, the crème brûlée is easily the best crème brûlée I’ve ever had… the kind that every bite is almost a religious experience, enjoyed with reverence. They have a small, but passionate, friendly, and knowledgeable staff… you should always make reservations because the staff seem to enjoy what they’re doing way too much to be in a rush.
The tasting room was a fantastic experience as well, with super fun «Diva» wine enthusiasts guiding us through the wine offerings. I’m no sommelier, but I enjoyed all of the wines, which hasn’t happened at the other wineries.
We will definitely be back.

Flat Creek Vineyards is located outside of Marble Falls Texas. A 20 minute drive with some gorgeous views of the Texas Hill Country. Flat Creek has one of the most beautiful vineyards in the area.
The estate has a large outdoor reception area used for private events, a bistro offers a variety of fine dinning options and open for dinner until 8 pm daily. Reservations recommended for Friday and Saturday dinning. Flat Creek will also cater your wedding or event.
The grounds at Flat Creek are beautifully landscaped with the vineyards and a variety of flower beds. The structures are built of limestone rock harvested locally with a special attention to the architectural design.
Flat Creek Winery has a wide variety of award winning wines. They offer a tasting for $ 10 which allows you to taste a variety of red and white wines.

Beautiful setting, nicely decorated buildings, this would be an awesome place for a wedding. The tasting was ok, they could probably add a few more munchies add be better connected to the bistro, so you could order at least a cheese tray during tasting. The vines are still young. I would recommend these wines to young people who are still developing their palate and wine knowledge. I was not thrilled. Great place, though.

My all time favorite place!!! You outshine everyone!
Staff is super friendly and knows their stuff.
You get 6 tastings and a souvenir glass for $ 15.00 and they are good pours! They give you chocolate and crackers to munch on.
The grounds are beautiful and well kept.
You are my list and I will recommend this place to everyone! Thank you Flat Creek!

My partner and I adore Flat Creek Estates! We’ve been going for almost 7 years now, and like their wine Flat Creek only gets better with age.
We always start our visits in the tasting room followed by lunch at the Bistro. Their wines are wonderful, Chef Sean’s food is impecable, and views extraordinary. I highly recommend visiting them!
Madeline and her team make you feel welcome from the moment you walk on the door. When the tasting room and bistro get busy, their service can slow down. But the staff refuse to accept tips, and all work there because they want to — not because they have to.
Our favorite wines of Flat Creek are the Blanco Brio, Dama Rosa, Super Texan, and Four Horsemen. But their port is at the top of our list!!!

Lovely little winery. The wine is excellent and the bistro has some good options to fill your stomach before or after the wine. The wine tasting is $ 12 for 6 tastings. Be sure to save one for the Port, take a chocolate and a sip of port and drift away to heaven.

Not great collection of wines. The wine tasting is expensive. 10 $ per person and they give you a free glass. They don’t give much to taste. I think it is just an average place to visit. Everything is bit expensive in my opinion.

We are so thankful our friends recommended Flat Creek! The views and the estate itself are gorgeous. The staff was knowledgable and extremely friendly. We really enjoyed sipping on their Pinot Blanc.

The rating of a 4 is a provisional rating on one experience. This is very much a 5 star experience.
My wife and I love this vineyard. It’s close to where we live, and the drive is a quick run through beautiful countryside.
We ended up here a few times in the last six months and decided on the last trip to join the wine club for 6 bottles twice a year. We have other wine club memberships and enjoy some of the benefits attached to them.
The pick-​up was intended to be a reservation lunch on the grounds and a quick tasting of the ones we’re not sure of letting us fill out the pick up of 6 with the extras we didn’t get but like. The lunch was fantastic, got a great view and enjoyed the appetizer plate of assorted cheeses, crackers, and such. The flat creek pizza was fantastic. Well worth the experience and fun. All over a bottle of Super Texan 2012.
This is our 5-​star experience we’ve learned to expect.
The rest comes from a weird occurrence where we asked to sit outside. The hostess tried to sit us where one seat faces the wall and the other has the view, we opted out for one where both of us could enjoy the view. There were six seats available on our side of the patio alone. We were accommodated, but got attitude for it. Whatever, this place generally rocks and one moment of irk from the hostess won’t spoil it. We order wine, got our app and enjoyed the view and the ambiance of the place. Then we get the owner who come by, whom I love her personality and signed up for the wine club with her just from exuberance alone (add in we love the wines and end up here with friends doesn’t hurt either). She comes to tell us we should never have been given a seat out here, a 4-​top was reserved out here and we may need to move when they arrive. I’m still looking at the 4 empty chairs and two other tables on either side of us and now I’m perturbed. I’ve done restaurants before, it takes a pretty special instance to justify moving someone after they’ve been seated with appetizers in hand. In the end it didn’t matter as the 4-​top decided to stay inside, but we spent the entire meal with that little thing over our head. We didn’t mean to, but both of us felt like we had another agenda to cater to when we had the afternoon to ourselves. It shadows what is a pretty awesome day.
I will definitely go back, one experience does not make up the whole show. I hope the Estate reads this and actions it. You’re amazing, great fun, have a packed house, and lots of wine memberships, but don’t skimp on the little details. My wife and I look 25 and drive a 7 year old car, not the retirees with the Jaguars in the parking lot… but we plan to be here a while. I’m hoping it’s a one off incident and will adjust this review accordingly when I return next time (we seem to go every few months). I really want to keep loving this place.

One of my fav Hill Country Wineries! Not only is the drive in gorgeous with the scenic hills surrounding the tasting room, but this is one of the prettiest tasting rooms I have visited!
The staff is very nice and knowledgeable and you can do tastings at the bar or sit at a bistro table and have the tasting come to you!
Nice selection of wines and you can buy by the tasting, glass, bottle, or case.
My favorite feature here is they have a brunch menu on the weekends!
They even have some beautiful wine artwork for sale that is worth checking out!
Just a fantastic place to take a leisurely weekend drive out to for a nice wine/​bistro stop and continue through the scenic splendor of the Central Texas Hills!

I wrote my first review of this place when I first got on Unilocal,back when I could write short, succinct paragraphs. Sigh. Those days are long past and it’s time for an (lengthy) update!
True story: when I moved here to go to UT back in 198cough, I would seek to escape the pressures and frustrations of college, boys, etc. I would get in my Land Barge, my Oldsmobile Delta ’88, and drive alllll the way north 183 til the highway ended (yes back then, it ended at 1431) and then I’d take that beautiful scenic drive past Lago Vista all the way to Marble Falls. I wouldn’t stop there tho. I’d turn around on 1431, find my favorite shady oak tree by the side of the road and pull over and park, listen to White Snake or Tesla, and ponder and write in my journal, etc. Yup, the irony of this story is that now I actually live waaaay up there, very close to what used to be the great vast undeveloped area that I escaped to.
I have come full circle it seems. I find that I still love making the drive down 1431 to «get away» for the day, only now it’s not out of desperation and angst, but because the weather is gorgeous, I have a convertible, and I am happy happy happy! And now that I’m an adult, my destination is almost always Flat Creek Estates. It’s just far enough away to feel like an adventure and the drive as stated is beautiful and fun with one great roller coaster hill on Singleton that yesterday, when we had a pokey pa-​pa in front of us, we actually did a u-​turn in order to get a good fast run down it.
And then there’s the winery. Duh, that’s why you’re here right? I have been many times and I just love grabbing a glass of rose and just hanging out on their beautiful patio. I’m not crazy about all their wines, but the rose is fantastic as is some of their reds (we just stuck with the rose this warm weather trip). The staff has always been friendly (we in fact spent one afternoon just drinking with the winemaker) and they usually have a staff dog, which always gets points from us. But the grounds are just lovely. The patio is all stonework and iron and they have a little garden of flowers, filled with butterflies and hummingbirds. Yesterday they were also playing some nice music, a la gypsy kingsish, which just added to the relaxing ambiance. We also got the cheese plate yesterday which was really great! Three cheeses, some prosciutto, candied walnuts and some dried fruit. It really feels like living in the lap of luxury, and who wouldn’t want to escape to that every now and then?
So on a pristine cloudless 85 degree day, you’ll most likely find me topless in my Heavenly V_​lv_​, now listening to the Hall and Oates Pandora station, heading to this winery for my «escape».
And you’ll find me with a happy grin on my face.

Lovely little getaway, would be interested in going to one of their wine-​pairing dinners.
The Tempranillo was a strong favorite, all wines are very moderately priced. Be sure to check out their local olive oil and balsamic vinegar tasting area.

«I could spend all day here!» I exclaimed to my friend. The lovely Flat Creek Estate has expanded since my last visit. The previous tasting room is now the Bistro, and two new tasting rooms have been built, one for general tastings, and the other, «Trooper’s Den», offers flights, an outdoor patio and musical entertainment. Since Flatcreek’s venture into the culinary world, they’ve also added a vegetable and herb garden.
So here’s how your day could break down:
11:30 am — Brunch and mimosas (raspberry or almond) on the outdoor patio overlooking the beautiful grounds.
1:00 pm — A «Diva Tasting» (try 8 different wines, 3 from their reserve collection) in the main tasting room.
2:00 pm — Take a walk through the garden and then wander over to the vines; snap photos of the wildflowers. Locate and pet Trooper, the resident winery dog (an aging but noble Doberman).
3:00 pm — Return to Trooper’s Den and try out a wine flight, while relaxing to some gentle guitar music.
See…
Brunch: I chose the Cowboy Breakfast and it was hearty and delicious! Eggs over easy, toast, venison chili, boar bacon (OMG…a new bacon standard! Very lean, meaty and oh so tasty!), and gouda grits.
Bonus Alert! This is a no tip establishment. So you don’t tip on the brunch!
The Wines:
Really there were only two substantial Reds at the time of my visit — the Syrah ’08 and the Meritage ’08. The Syrah had an interesting notes, including blueberry. Both wines were easy drinking.
The Super Texan is a decent red table wine.
The dry whites were both nice, but the Pinot Grigio was my favorite, with hints of apple and a nice acidity. The other wine was a Viognier. (I skipped tasting the two Muscatos and the Mistella, as I’m not usually a fan of sweet whites.
I ended up purchasing the ’07 Port.

What do I know about wine? Nada, but my friend wanted to check out this winery on the drive back to Dallas, and why not? A drive through Texas Hill Country during bluebonnet season sounded good to me.
The drive is pretty, and the winery grounds are also pretty. We parked, walked in, and ordered a glass of wine. The lady running the tasting room was not very helpful. When I asked for her help with a selection she handed me the wine list. Since I am a total wine novice I ended up guessing and just pointed at a wine.
Bingo — it was a winner. I had the Super Texan and my friend ordered the Bucking Horse. His was also good; it was peppery and spicy.
We sat outside on the picnic tables and enjoyed the scenery. One the adjacent buildings had a band playing, and there were some walks visitors could go on, if they had the time.
For my first ever winery experience, it was good, and more relaxing than I expected. Watch out for the «hot» water in the restroom though if you go to wash your hands, I nearly took off a layer of skin.