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Sandra Spicher

The Bistro at Flat Creek Estate: A Taste from the North Shore of Lake Travis

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April shows us to our table at the Bistro at Flat Creek Estate

Take 1431 west from Lago Vista, a left on Singleton Bend Road and another on Singleton Bend East, and follow the scent of woodsmoke to the Bistro at Flat Creek Estate.

Not only a vineyard and winery, Flat Creek Estate is a fine destination for delicious food that fuses Hill Country fresh with international style. Local artists also sell jewelry, gifts, and cards from the adjacent Tasting Room.

Reservations for the Bistro are required and easy to come by: call 512-267-6310. Gratuities are not accepted, but you’re welcome to leave a donation for the nonprofit World of Children.

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Lago Vista Physical Therapy: Where Everybody Knows Your Name

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Lago Vista Physical Therapy BuildingWalk in to Lago Vista Physical Therapy and you’re likely to catch the tail end of a lively exchange between patients.

From a stationary bicycle, one gentleman notes how crazy expensive it is to replace a bumper these days.

Exercising on a set of steps, another patient says he knows a guy — the best guy — who does body work for less. A series of beep sounds, and it’s time for the first patient to move on to his next drill.

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From the Vineyard to the Glass at Flat Creek Estate in Marble Falls

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Entrance to Flat Creek Estate

In the middle of 2011’s grape harvest, Flat Creek Estate lost its winemaker to a rival in California. Desperate to save the vintage, owners Rick and Madelyn Naber asked Tim Drake, then an itinerant wine scientist running Texas Wine Lab, for help. Drake turned out to be a winemaker in search of a winery.

Since then, the wines produced at Flat Creek — and the vineyard where estate grapes are grown — have been under Drake’s purview.

The Nabers’ goal had always been to make world-class wines. Once they settled on wine as the product, anyway. They bought what was known as Flat Creek Farm on East Singleton Bend Road to save the agricultural land from development in 1999.

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