Rotary Club this week welcomed Zinn Brown, right, to introduce his new downtown venture, Bankhead Texas Wine Bar. He is pictured with program chair Candi Harrison.
Zinn currently is the owner/operator of Coffee & Cocktails @ 76067 downtown, and his wine bar will be located across the street on West Hubbard Street (part of the historic Bankhead Highway).
The new wine bar will feature indoor and outdoor seating and offer his craft wines, made from grapes grown in Palo Pinto County. Zinn will also feature other Texas wines. He hopes to make Palo Pinto County and the Northern Hill Country a popular wine and winery destination, potentially along the lines of what has been established in the Southern Hill Country region around Fredricksburg, which is the largest wine region in Texas and the third-largest in the United States. The Texas High Plains is the state's second-largest wine region.
The Texas wine industry is a $13 billion industry and attracts 1.7 million visitors to the state each year.
An accomplished attorney as well as a restaurant/entertainment business owner, Zinn has been studying all aspects of winemaking for nearly a decade. He hopes to open his new wine bar in July.
Thanks, Zinn, for speaking to the club about your exciting new addition to downtown Mineral Wells.
Rotary Club of Mineral Wells meets every Wednesday at noon at Southside Church of Christ. Meetings are catered by Sadie's Eats and are for club members, prospective members and invited guests.