{"id":100571,"date":"2025-07-28T23:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100571\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T23:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T23:16:09","slug":"fort-worths-trinity-metro-offers-free-rides-on-special-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/100571\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Worth&#8217;s Trinity Metro offers free rides on special week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As beautiful as the Hill Country&#8217;s wines and vineyards are, it can be difficult to keep all of them straight. With 69 member wineries, <a href=\"https:\/\/texashillcountrywineries.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Texas Hill Country Wineries (THCW)<\/a> is as close as anyone can get to doing it, and the trade association is now partnering with Wine Folly to create a &#8220;dynamic online <a href=\"https:\/\/texashillcountry.guides.winefolly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Region Guide<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/texashillcountry.guides.winefolly.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8221; that&#8217;s free for anyone to use.<\/p>\n<p>The online guide is less like a book and more like a database, with six main topic pages spanning wines, wineries, terroir (growing conditions), history, region, and travel. There&#8217;s also a short introduction that combines all those topics in a quick overview that&#8217;s worth reading out loud from the passenger seat.<\/p>\n<p>Clicking into each section, the guide starts to take shape, featuring segmented writing and data visualizations to get the point across. For example, in the <strong>wines section<\/strong>, the 418 wines represented are organized into a doughnut chart by prevalence (surprisingly, Mourv\u00e8dre takes the largest section with 32 in total). Users can then click through to a list of matching bottles with profiles describing their tasting notes, behind-the-scenes growing information, suggested food pairings and more.<\/p>\n<p>The other sections unfold as follows:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"ee-ul\">\n<li><strong>Wineries:<\/strong> The first page presents several featured wineries, and a secondary page organizes all winery profiles with a filter for grape varieties used.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Terroir: <\/strong>Helpful illustrations take wine-lovers back to elementary school science, with more written details for teachers&#8217; pets.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History: <\/strong>A timeline tracks the region back to the 1600s, and a secondary page on vintages lays out some interesting info about the fruits of the past 11 years.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Region:<\/strong> This section lays out geographical information about what Texans probably just call &#8220;the Hill Country,&#8221; but in much greater detail and in winemakers&#8217; terms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Travel: <\/strong>Adding flavor, this section suggests routes to take by car (&#8220;wine trails&#8221;), alternative transportation options, general winery etiquette and offerings, things to do nearby, and recommended places to stay.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For devout fact-checkers and voracious researchers, each section is presented with a list of sources. <\/p>\n<p>A press release from THCW calls this a &#8220;first-of-its-kind digital resource,&#8221; meaning no other site has compiled a comparable online guide. In case wine-lovers do want to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/winefolly.com\/guides\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">other guides<\/a>, though, Wine Folly has more on general topics like wine basics, pairings, tasting, and handling; plus 14 more regional guides including the Napa Valley, New York, Bordeaux, and Italy (titled Chianti Classico).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis partnership with Wine Folly represents a monumental step forward for Texas Hill Country Wineries and for Texas wine as a whole,\u201d said THCW president Blake DeBerry in a press release. \u201cFor the first time, we\u2019re investing in a fully interactive, global-scale educational platform that will showcase the diverse terroir, winemaking styles, and must-visit wineries that make Texas Hill Country one of the most exciting wine regions in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As beautiful as the Hill Country&#8217;s wines and vineyards are, it can be difficult to keep all of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":100572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5138],"tags":[5229,7371,7372,10084,358,522,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-100571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-worth","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-fort-worth","10":"tag-fortworth","11":"tag-openings","12":"tag-texas","13":"tag-transportation","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114933413002706951","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}