The elegant wine. The rolling hills. The spectacular sunsets. Few Hill Country getaways are more lavish than a trip to Fredericksburg. But when you make your stay in one of these luxurious cabins, you may just find peak romance.
The Wine Barrel Cabins are the dream of husband-and-wife duo Josh and Kerri Wolcott. After moving their family of five from Hawaii to the Hill Country in 2022, the couple set out to create a place where people could escape. “That’s what we decided we would go for. Somewhere people could come to get away, reconnect, and relax,” Josh says. They also wanted to give people the chance to do that in a place that is truly unique.
But what would that look like? They didn’t want to go traditional German or typical Hill Country. Finally, after much thought, the idea for wine barrels struck. Josh recalls: “I said, ‘I think I have something here for the cabins.’ When I turned the paper around for [Kerri] to see and pointed to images of wine barrels on the iPad, she smiled and exclaimed, ‘Yeeessssss! That’s it!’”
With help from family and friends, the Wolcotts built the cabins and designed the interiors around comfort and escape. “Kerri had the brilliant idea of doing four cabins like a wine flight,” Josh says, “with each barrel being a different type of wine—just like when you go wine tasting!” And that idea has come to life as four barrel-shaped cabins nestled on five secluded acres, serving as a flight of luxury and rest.
Each cabin incorporates a color scheme based upon its namesake style—Chardonnay, Rosé, Tempranillo, and Cabernet—without being too on the nose. “As best we could, we designed things from a couple on a weekend getaway perspective,“ Josh says. Comfort is in ample supply in each cabin with a king bed and plush pillows and bedding. The shower is the central art piece in each cabin, with lighting and fixtures designed to accentuate its beauty. “Put that all inside a cool-looking wine barrel-shaped cabin, and it oozes romantic getaway.”
While they may be inspired by romance, you don’t have to be a couple to enjoy the Wine Barrel Cabins. Friends on a “girls’ weekend” and touring wine aficionados are frequent visitors. Families and groups of up to 10 can stay in Hickory Haus, which shares the property with the cabins.
When it comes to welcoming visitors to the Hill Country, Josh and Kerri say that Fredericksburg makes that easy. “We love our community and think it has such an amazing amount of activities and events year-round for such a small town,” Josh says. There are more than 60 wineries and tasting rooms in and around the town, along with various restaurants and shops.
But their favorite thing is to emulate the hospitality built into Fredericksburg at its founding. Town planners designed the city so that the first letter of the streets east of the courthouse would spell “ALL WELCOME” and those to the west would spell “COME BACK.” “That has certainly been our experience moving here,” Josh says. “We have been so welcomed by our community and enjoy introducing visitors to the Hill Country to the little local gems we have discovered.”
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