The comments following the article in the SacBee are hilarious, must be mostly FReepers since they follow a theme: “Keep your happy ass and your daughter in CA!!”
If this airhead thinks Austin represents a huge cultural shift, wait until she experiences “real” TX: Midland/Odessa, the East TX “piney woods”, the Panhandle, etc.
East Texas is heaven. This leftist witch would burst into flames if she passed that border.
I've taken a couple of out-of-town friends with ties to Napa to my favorite winery in Burleson. They aren't wine snobs, and enjoyed the wine we sampled. They also liked the friendliness of everyone there.
Austin and the Hill Country are great areas for wine and craft breweries. I fell in love with Gruene, plenty of shops for my wife and a great wine bar for me. Perfect!!! Lol, Fredericksburg is like that, too, but with more shops and a half dozen wine bars...