{"id":903305,"date":"2026-06-30T15:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903305\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T15:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T15:10:18","slug":"william-chris-opens-new-rebecca-carolina-tasting-room-in-hye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/903305\/","title":{"rendered":"William Chris opens new Rebecca Carolina tasting room in Hye"},"content":{"rendered":"

Texas\u2019 acclaimed <\/a>William Chris Wine Company is now signed, sealed, and delivered. The Hill Country winery<\/a> has opened its newest tasting room inside the historic Hye Post Office at 10261 US-290 to showcase its new sparkling wine brand, Rebecca Caroline<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The post office, featuring a folksy painted facade and Bavarian metalwork, is one of the Hill Country\u2019s most famous landmarks. Hiram \u201cHye\u201d Brown, Hye\u2019s namesake, built the structure in 1886 from designs he scouted in a catalog. The building was moved to its present location in 1904, and has since become a symbol of community pride.<\/p>\n

As with many sites in the area, much of the lore is tied to Lyndon B. Johnson. The future president reportedly mailed his first letter there when he was only four years old \u2014 a habit he kept up during his courtship of Lady Bird. 50 years later, he returned to swear in his new Postmaster General, Lawrence F. O\u2019Brien.<\/p>\n

\"Rebecca Inside the tasting room, William Chris mixed contemporary furnishings with vintage touches like a stamped tin ceiling.Photo courtesy of William Chris Wine Company<\/p>\n

More recently, the building served as a general store and restaurant. In a previous press release, William Chris said it honored its heritage by introducing a \u201crefined, whimsical aesthetic\u201d that just happens to showcase the popular winery\u2019s latest Texas-grown brand.<\/p>\n

\u201cHistory gives a place its soul, and vision gives it a future,\u201d said co-founder and CEO Chris Brundrett in a release. \u201cRebecca Caroline brings those two things together in a meaningful way.\u201d<\/p>\n

The sparkling wine brand, named for the combined middle names of co-founders Chris and Katharine Brundrett\u2019s daughters, maintains the winery\u2019s commitment to solely using Texas-grown grapes. Winemaker Seth Urbanek uses the m\u00e9thode traditionnelle originated in Champagne, France, a painstaking process where the wine\u2019s bubbles are created through a secondary fermentation inside the bottles.<\/p>\n

\"Rebecca The original mailboxes were incorporated into the decor.Photo courtesy of William Chris Wine Company<\/p>\n

Guests can try the wines inside the new tasting room Thursday through Saturday, 11 am-6 pm, and Sunday, noon-5 pm. The $35-per-person fee covers a 60-minute experience that can be augmented with oysters and caviar. If that impresses the palate, oenophiles can join the R.C. Express Wine Club<\/a>, a limited sparkling release membership program inspired by the Pony Express.<\/p>\n

William Chris’ ambitions, however, rise far above just creating a destination. The winery hopes to create a global stage for an industry that LBJ probably could have never imagined.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery bottle starts with extraordinary Texas-grown fruit and tells the story of the land it came from. And every guest who walks through these doors becomes part of the next chapter,\u201d continued Brundrett. \u201cOur goal isn\u2019t just to make great sparkling wine. It\u2019s to show the world that Texas deserves a place among the great sparkling wine regions.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas\u2019 acclaimed William Chris Wine Company is now signed, sealed, and delivered. The Hill Country winery has opened…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":903306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,18717,295376,10084,7202,7203,216392,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,9963,10433],"class_list":["post-903305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-america","tag-hill-country","tag-hye","tag-openings","tag-san-antonio","tag-sanantonio","tag-sparkling-wine","tag-texas","tag-tx","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-wine","tag-wineries"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116839699388711819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903305","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=903305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/903305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/903306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=903305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=903305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=903305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}