{"id":241297,"date":"2026-04-09T02:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241297\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T02:00:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T02:00:14","slug":"smithville-winery-frontier-cellars-opens-with-texas-wines-small-bites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/241297\/","title":{"rendered":"Smithville winery Frontier Cellars opens with Texas wines, small bites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAfter spending the last three years renovating, Lance and Alysen Bondy now offer a selection of wines and small bites at their recently opened winery in Smithville.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s happening? <\/p>\n<p>Set on 73 acres, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/p\/Frontier-Cellars-61576150536891\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Frontier Cellars<\/a> offers a tasting room overlooking a two-acre lake.<\/p>\n<p>Alysen Bondy said guests can enjoy indoor and outdoor seating at the veteran-owned business, which makes its wines exclusively from Texas-grown grapes.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Each house wine features a label paired with its own story at Frontier Cellars in Smithville. (Courtesy Frontier Cellars)\" height=\"666\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2026\/04\/08\/418895.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"1000\"\/>Each house wine features a label paired with its own story at Frontier Cellars in Smithville. (Courtesy Frontier Cellars)<\/p>\n<p>What they offer<\/p>\n<p>The winery currently offers five wines\u2014each bottle featuring artwork paired with a backstory tied to its label.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to wines, Frontier Cellars offers a small bites menu featuring Neopolitan-style flatbread, herbed cheese spreads and charcuteries.<\/p>\n<p>What they\u2019re saying<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe feel honored to serve as stewards of the land, preserving as much of the original character as possible while pursuing our dream,\u201d Alysen Bondy said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After spending the last three years renovating, Lance and Alysen Bondy now offer a selection of wines and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[92495,132,134,133,92487,18612,92492,92483,92490,92493,92494,92491,92485,92488,92484,92489,92486],"class_list":["post-241297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-alysen-bondy","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-bastrop-county-winery","tag-charcuterie","tag-flatbread","tag-frontier-cellars","tag-frontier-cellars-smithville","tag-lakefront-winery","tag-lance-bondy","tag-small-bites-menu","tag-smithville-tasting-room","tag-smithville-wine","tag-smithville-winery","tag-texas-winery","tag-texas-grown-grapes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}