Dan and Sue Schulse

Dan and Sue began the Turtle Creek Enterprise in March 2016, after traveling to Italy in 2013 and hiking through the fields, vineyards, olive groves and villages of Tuscany. The Italian scenery inspired them to have something similar in the Texas Hill Country; it was something that they could retire doing and pass down to their children.

For them, family is the nucleus, the heartbeat and pulse keeping them connected, and the reason they moved to Kerrville. Turtle Creek Olives and Vines and Turtle Creek Vineyard are businesses designed to promote agriculture and tourism in Kerr County, while also built on the principle that with ethical practices and hard work, success follows suit. Their hope is that their children will continue to be passionate about these adventures, as well.

In 2019, the Schulse Family opened a distinguished tasting room experience that works collectively with private property, Turtle Creek Vineyard, which is eight miles from the downtown tasting room. The vineyard is their private working farm, vineyard and winery production facility where all of the Turtle Creek products will be produced upon maturity of the vines and trees.