Taste the Hill Country’s Rhône Revolution–Texas Fine Wine Dinner at Lenoir

The Details:

What: Rhône Rangers x Lenoir. Four-course, family-style dinner + five Rhône-style wine pairings with commentary from the vineyard owners.

When and Where: Monday, April 7, 2025, Lenoir Wine Garden at 6:30 PM.

Tickets: Click here.

On Monday, April 7, Lenoir will transform its backyard wine garden into an open-air Rhône tasting room, pairing a four-course, family-style dinner with five Rhône-style wines from four standout Texas wineries. The one-night event brings together Bending Branch, Duchman, Pedernales, and Spicewood Vineyards—collectively known as Texas Fine Wine—for a guided evening of pours, plates, and terroir talk.

“We’re very excited to host some of our favorite local winemakers for a dinner celebrating Rhône Rangers and American Rhône wines in collaboration with Texas Fine Wine,” Lenoir shared. “The winemakers and owners will be there to talk about why Texas is the perfect place for Rhône wines and walk you through each wine pairing with every dish.”

Each course at Lenoir’s garden dinner will be paired with a Rhône-style wine from one of Texas Fine Wine’s founding members—Bending Branch Winery (Comfort, TX), Duchman Family Winery (Driftwood, TX), Pedernales Cellars (Stonewall, TX), Spicewood Vineyards (Spicewood, TX)—each winery showcasing its distinct approach to sustainable winemaking and grapes that thrive in Texas heat.

The Setting: South First Meets Southern Rhône

The dinner takes place in Lenoir’s shaded backyard wine garden, a longtime favorite for hot-weather dining and bold, underrepresented wines.

“Lenoir is known for a great wine selection, unreal fluffy Pullman bread, and an ever-rotating menu of dishes made for hot weather,” noted Eater Austin. “The shady wine garden is an expansion of its vintage-chic interior… and feels like an extension of South First itself.”

The menu—crafted for this event after a 2023 trip to the Rhône Valley—draws on Lenoir’s signature farm-to-table style. “The farm-to-table menu is one of the most creative around,” wrote the Michelin Guide—Lenoir is a newly helmed Michelin-recommended restaurant–citing dishes like poached snapper with pickled blueberries and Texas pecan ice cream.

This isn’t just a dinner—it’s part of a larger movement to establish Texas along with other top-tier wine destinations around the world. “New, savvy winemakers are setting the standard for wines that reflect a distinct flavor for the regions in which they’re grown,” Jessica Dupuy, a certified sommelier who covers wine regularly for Texas Monthly recently told Conde Nast Traveler. “I think in the next decade, we’ll be talking about wine tasting in Texas in the way that we talk about Oregon or Washington.”

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