Texas terroir hiding in plain sight on Main Street
North Historic District · Grapevine · Winery/Tasting Room · Visit Website ↗
Reviewed by the RagingWine Tasting Desk · July 16, 2026
RagingWine reviewed Cross Timbers Winery’s wine list and gave it The Wild Card — RagingWine’s Vibe-Check rating. How RagingWine reviews wine lists →
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Walking into Cross Timbers on Grapevine's historic Main Street, the list is short — six labels — and every single one is a house wine made right here in North Texas. That's either a bold statement or a red flag depending on your priors, but stick around, because this place is playing a different game than most stops on the Grapevine Wine Trail.
Six wines, zero filler from California or Spain — Cross Timbers commits fully to Texas-grown and Texas-made, which takes guts in a market where customers default to familiar names. The lineup covers real ground: a Port-style dessert wine in the Heritage Port, a white Rhône variety in the Sunset Viognier, a rosé, a Bordeaux anchor in the Brock Reserve Cabernet, and a Tempranillo that signals someone here actually thought about what grows well in North Texas heat. The Grapevine Blanc rounds it out as the easy-drinking crowd-pleaser. It's not deep, but it's coherent — a focused Texas story rather than a greatest-hits playlist.
As a dedicated tasting room, the by-the-glass experience is essentially the whole list served in flights or individual pours — you're here to taste through their lineup, not order a single glass and call it a night. Pricing data wasn't available at time of writing, but the tasting room format generally keeps things approachable. Call ahead or check the website for current flight options.
Cross Timbers Farmhouse Tempranillo — null
Tempranillo thrives in hot, dry climates and North Texas is arguably more Rioja than Napa. A Texas-grown Tempranillo from a small production winery at tasting room prices is exactly the kind of find this trail exists for — don't sleep on it.
Cross Timbers Heritage Port
Nobody walks into a Main Street tasting room in Grapevine thinking about Port, which is exactly why you should order it. Texas-made fortified wine is a niche within a niche, and if Cross Timbers pulls it off, it's a genuine conversation piece.
Cross Timbers Grapevine Blanc
Named after the city and almost certainly the crowd-pleaser designed to move volume — nothing wrong with it, but if you're making the trip to a small Texas winery, the Blanc is unlikely to be the wine you remember. Order it last if at all.
Cross Timbers Sunset Viognier + Texas BBQ smoked brisket
Viognier's stone fruit and floral weight can actually hold its own against smoky, fatty brisket in a way that most whites can't — and if you're hitting Grapevine's Main Street, a nearby BBQ stop is basically mandatory. The Sunset Viognier is the unexpected bridge.
🎲 The Bottom Line
Cross Timbers isn't trying to be a destination wine list — it's a full-commit Texas winery doing its own thing six bottles at a time on a historic small-town main street. If you want to understand what North Texas wine actually tastes like, this is one of the more honest places to find out.
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