Subject: Vineyards and Winemakers

• Crossed Fingers for Sunday Booze Sales

  February 14, 2008

• License to Swill

  April 3, 2008

• License to Swill

  April 3, 2008

• Mouthing Off

  July 9, 1998

• Naturally Boulder Days highlights an organic industry

  October 29, 2008

• Drink Breckenridge

  D'Vine Wine, a boutique winery, just opened at 211 South Main Street in Breckenridge, the fourth Colorado location of the California-based franchise. D'Vine makes handcrafted wines in its Colorado wineries, using freshly crushed grapes from Napa vineyards to create customized wines. "We are eager to introduce our wines to locals and tourists alike in one of America's favorite ski towns," says owner Ross Meriwether. "Although our wines are created in our Silverthorne

  November 26, 2008

• Colorado wine sure is fine

  The Colorado Wine Industry Development Board has just announced its fourth restaurant recognition program, to single out restaurants that promote Colorado wine. Last year's winners were Juicy Lucy's (the original, not the second spot in Cherry Creek), the Mercury Cafe and Restaurant Six89 in Carbondale. For this year's program, awards will be given to restaurants for "best Colorado wines by the glass," "best Colorado wines by the bottle"  and 'best Colorado food and wine p

  December 17, 2008

• Best Colorado wine

  June 29, 2000

• Best Beer Store

  March 29, 2001

• Best Beer in a Wine Store

  April 4, 2002

• Bite Me

  March 13, 2003

• Best Mid-Range Wine List

  March 25, 2004

• Best Artisan Wine List

  March 24, 2005

• Brats for a good cause, and other Saturday events

  Today, March14, Sunflower Farmers Market at 1980 East County Line Road in Highlands Ranch is hosting March Madness, firing up the grill and selling brats to benefit the Make a Wish Foundation. For info, call 303-243-5060. The Kitchen Table Cooking School at Landmark in Greenwood Village will put out an Irish Feast from 6:30-9 p.m. tonight; for details, go to www.kitchentablegv.com. And, the annual "Women in Wine" event continues at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, with lectures by female w

  March 14, 2009

• Cultural Feast

  The annual Festival Italiano overtakes Belmar.

  September 21, 2006

• Mile After Mile

  May 8, 2008

• Wine and Dine

  April 24, 2008

• Wake-Up Call: A wine time at the DAM tonight

  There's an art to drinking wine; discover it from 6-9 p.m. tonight at the Denver Art Museum when the DAM Uncorked Wine Tasting presents over 250 wines from prominent domestic and international vintners. And from 6-10 p.m. on April 18, the DAM follows up with a dinner and auction. Tickets range from $35 to 90; for information, go to www.denverartmuseum.org/uncorked. At 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18, the Wynkoop Brewing Company, 1634 18th Street, hosts the second annual Liquid Poetry event, with re

  April 17, 2009

• Wining and Dining

  Boulder's food and wine takes center stage.

  August 9, 2007

• High Life

  August 2, 2007

• Gourmet Eats and Treats

  August 10, 2006

• Wine & Dine

  May 10, 2007

• Grape Expectations

  The monks have moved on, but it's another vintage year in Cañon City.

  December 15, 2005

• Best Blow-Out Brunch

  Ellyngton's

  March 24, 2005

• Talking Shop

  Valentine's Day turns guys into sweethearts

  February 5, 2004

• Bug Love

  A car show to exhaust VW fans

  June 19, 2003

• Best Beer Selection

  The Wine Company

  March 27, 2003

• Mouthing Off

  April 22, 1999

• Mouthing Off

  April 16, 1998

• Mouthing Off

  June 20, 1996

• Mouthing Off

  June 13, 1996

• COLORADO'S WHINE INDUSTRY

  THAT BOUQUET EMANATING FROM DISGRUNTLED LOCAL VINTNERS? SOUR GRAPES.

  November 1, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  October 18, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  April 19, 1995

• MOUTHING OFF

  October 5, 1994

• THRILLS

  September 21, 1994

• MOUTHING OFF

  March 16, 1994

• Sip at Swallow Hill this afternoon

  From 3 to 6 p.m. today, May 3, Swallow Hill's WineFest 2009 will showcase five Colorado wineries, as well as local cheese and appetizers made from Colorado-grown ingredients -- and, of course, homegrown music from FOMA and the Kantankerous Bluegrass Band. Swallow Hill is located at 71 East Yale Avenue, and tickets are $37 or $35 for Swallow Hill members. To buy tickets and get more info, go to www.swallowhillmusic.or or call 303-777-1003 ext. 2.

  May 3, 2009

• Wine dinners tonight at Frasca, Osteria Marco

  Tonight at Frasca, 1738 Pearl Street in Boulder, winemaker Etienne Hugel will present the wines of Hugel & Fils at a Monday Night Wine Dinner devoted to the flavors of Alsace. Dinner is $45 per person, with optional wine pairings extra; for reservations, call 303-442-6966. Osteria Marco, 1453 Larimer Street, will hold its monthly wine dinner tonight; four courses run $50 per person and include wine. For more info, call 303-534-5855.

  May 18, 2009

• Biondi Santi tasting at Parisi tonight

  Parisi, at 4401 Tennyson Street, hosts a wine-tasting and seminar on the wines of Biondi Santi, led by winemaker Luca Belingardi, at 6 p.m. Wednesday, May 20. The price is $50 per person (and includes imported Tuscan salumi, cheeses and bread), and reservations are definitely required; call 303-561-0234. Cook Street, the cooking school at 1937 Market Street, offers a Savoie Winemaker Dinner from 6 to 9 p.m. on May 20; a special menu highlighting the Savoie region is paired with wines from Jean

  May 20, 2009

• Jax puts its fin into the wine game

  Jax Fish House, which is part of the Big Red F Restaurant Group, has introduced its own wine -- with the help of vintner Sineann, a small winemaker in Yamhill County, Oregon, run by Peter Rosback. That's after Big Red F head honcho Dave Query traveled up and down the West Coast looking something good enough to put Jax's name on. "Sineann produces some of the best pinot noir in the U.S.," explains Jax Denver GM Adam Reed. "Peter'swines are gems from the northwest and they display the Burgundian v

  May 21, 2009

• Tonight: Rare Slovenian wines at Table 6, bourbon at the West End Tavern

  At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Table 6, 609 Corona Street, welcomes Slovenian winemaker Aleks Simcic and master sommelier Laura Williamson for a four-course dinner paired with the rare wines of Edi Sincic from Goriska Brda. Not impressed? Ray Isle, Food & Wine magazine's wine editor, called these wines the "darlings of any number of top U.S sommeliers...because their winemakers are devoted both to organic farming and to creating wines that are deeply expressive of their place of origin." The dinner,

  June 22, 2009

• Today: A celebrity cook-off, wine-tasting event and the kick-off to Telluride's wine festival

  Melissa Harrison Tonight, from 6 to 9 p.m., TrueChild, a national organization that works to abolish child stereotyping, is hosting a reception, silent auction and the "True Flavors Celebrity Cook-off" at Mise En Place, 1801 Wynkoop Street. The match-up features two culinary teams, one led by Top Chef's Melissa Harrison, who cooks at Boulder's Happy Noodle House, 835 Walnut Street, the other by Denver native, now Los Angeles-based chef Alex Eusebio, also a contestant on Top Chef Season 5, both o

  June 25, 2009

• Tonight: Wines from California vines at Opus

  ​Littleton's Opus restaurant, 2575 West Main Street, is hosting a wine dinner at 6:30 p.m. this evening with grape guru Lisa Rein, the associate winemaker for Row Eleven Wine Company, a producer based in San Rafael, California. The four-course menu, prepared by owner/exec chef Michael Long, includes vanilla rum shrimp, duck prepared three ways, sweet onion-crusted Colorado lamb and chocolate beet cake. The price is $59 per person, excluding tax and gratuity, and reservations can be made by

  August 13, 2009

• Whole Foods celebrates Fair Trade Month today with lunch "happy" hour

  ​We all know that drinking a glass of red wine a day is good for our health, but did you know that some wines are also good for the environment? October is Fair Trade Month at Whole Foods, and to help celebrate, Bernard Fontannaz, founder and owner of Origin Wines and winemaker for Fairhills Bus Stop Fair Trade/ Whole Trade wines, has traveled from South Africa to help promote Whole Foods Whole Trade ™ program. The idea behind purchasing Fair Trade wines is that it'll directly benefi

  October 5, 2009

• Tonight: Daryl Groom winemaker dinner at Mel's Bar and Grill

  ​ Chad Clevenger, exec chef/owner of Mel's Bar and Grill, 5960 South Holly Street, is hosting a five-course winemaker dinner tonight with Daryl Groom, the former chief winemaker of Penfolds and Geyser Peak, who's now representing and making his signature private label, Groom. Groom focuses on three main varietals: sauvignon blanc, shiraz and zinfandel, all of which will be featured tonight, along with "The Proposition," a sparkling wine from Hesketh, a small-production winery from Austral

  November 3, 2009