Subject: Wine

• License to Swill

  April 3, 2008

• License to Swill

  April 3, 2008

• Culinary Cruising: Class Dismissed

  June 17, 2008

• Culinary Cruising: French Reverie

  June 19, 2008

• Now, That's Italian

  March 26, 1998

• Last Night: Women-only wine tasting at Rioja

  October 15, 2008

• The Grape Escape

  Tenth Annual Colorado Mountain WineFest

  June 14, 2001

• 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

• Best wine list -- selection

  June 29, 2000

• Best wine list -- Californian

  June 29, 2000

• Best wine list -- Italian

  June 29, 2000

• Best Wine List

  March 29, 2001

• Best Wine Shop

  March 29, 2001

• The Bite

  May 3, 2001

• Check, Please!

  June 28, 2001

• Bite Me

  August 15, 2002

• Bite Me

  March 13, 2003

• Best Wine List

  March 24, 2005

• Bite Me

  August 4, 2005

• Wine and cheese...and green chile?

  Danielle Cyrot, chief winemaker for St. Clement Winery in the Napa Valley, will host a wine-tasting at Strings, 1700 Humboldt Street tonight at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $30, and a portion benefits the Women's Bean Project; for reservations, go to www.stringsrestaurant.com. From 7 to 8:30 p.m. on March 19, the wines will be kosher at a wine-tasting at the new Kitchen Table Cooking School, in the Landmark project in Greenwood Village; for more info, call 303-220-9769 or go to www.kitchentablegv.com.

  March 19, 2009

• Wine on First Friday

  Verso Cellars, a Colorado winery, will start selling its wine (by the glass, bottle or case) at Metropolis Coffee, 300 West 11th Avenue, starting today during the First Friday Art Walk, which runs from noon to 8 p.m. For more info, go to www.versocellars.com. At Golden's First Friday, Spirits in the Wind Gallery, 1211 Washington Avenue, will host a free wine-tasting featuring wine from the Turquoise Mesa Winery; for information, call 303-279-1192 or go to www.spiritsinthewindgallery.com.

  April 3, 2009

• Got Wine?

  November 20, 2008

• Red, Red Wine

  November 6, 2008

• The Wonder of Wine

  Eat, drink and be merry at the Denver International Wine Festival.

  October 23, 2008

• Send it back: Bottle Shock's corked

  August 14, 2008

• Wine and Dine

  April 24, 2008

• Wining and Dining

  Boulder's food and wine takes center stage.

  August 9, 2007

• Mercury Rising

  August 9, 2007

• Grape Expectation

  Take an adventure of road and palate through this mini Napa.

  June 7, 2007

• High Time for Wine

  October 5, 2006

• Bottled Poetry

  November 2, 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

• Drink of the Week

  Mojito Martini

  September 8, 2005

• Party Patrol

  How low can you go? All the way, with these fabulously tacky theme parties.

  May 27, 2004

• Talking Shop

  Valentine's Day turns guys into sweethearts

  February 5, 2004

• Best Wine Shop for Amateurs

  Marczyk Fine Foods and Wine

  March 27, 2003

• Pop the Cork!

  Citrus bubbles over with good things.

  July 19, 2001

• A New Vintage

  May 1, 1997

• Mouthing Off

  July 25, 1996

• COLORADO'S WHINE INDUSTRY

  THAT BOUQUET EMANATING FROM DISGRUNTLED LOCAL VINTNERS? SOUR GRAPES.

  November 1, 1995

• 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

• 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: Twenty bucks, twenty wines at the Table Mountain Inn

  Bottle up your favorite oenophiles today and head to the Table Mountain Inn in Golden (1321 Washington Avenue) for a "Wined Up Your World" wine-tasting event, where twenty wines -- reds, whites, blends and imports -- will be paired with the restaurant's Southwestern-focused foodstuffs. If you simply can't wait to find out what's being uncorked, here's an advance screening: Cellar No 8 cabernet sauvignon; Chateau St. Jean Sonoma merlot; Meridian merlot; Cellar No 8 zinfandel; Beringer FE zinfa

  July 16, 2009

• The Capital Grille kicks off six-week wine tasting event

  ​Beginning today and continuing through August 23, The Capital Grille, the terrific steakhouse at 1450 Larimer Street, is uncorking a six-week Master Wine Tasting event, whereby 12 different South African and Napa Valley wines, all selected by George Milotes, the cow palace's corporate Master Sommelier, will be available for $10 per person at lunch and $25 at dinner. Curious about the wines? Here's what's being poured: Beringer sauvignon blanc; Beringer Private Reserve chardonnay; Berin

  August 3, 2009

• End of summer pinot party tonight at Lala's Wine Bar Pizzeria

  ​While it's still a few weeks before we bid a formal farewell to summer, the wine geeks at Lala's Wine Bar Pizzeria, 410 East Seventh Avenue, see no reason to wait, which, in part, explains why the restaurant and watering hole is hosting an end-of-summer pinot party tonight from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The other part, which is far more altruistic, is that tonight's wine tasting is a benefit for Homeaid Colorado, a local nonprofit that helps to temporarily house the homeless. Admission is $18 per p

  September 1, 2009

• Tonight: Harvest week wine dinner with monkeys at Avenue Grill

  ​While close to forty members of the Denver Independent Network of restaurants are rolling out menus offering locally sourced products through Friday, September 18 -- the last day of Harvest Week -- a few restaurants are also celebrating the state's allegiance to the locavore movement with special dinners. At 6:30 p.m. tonight, Avenue Grill, Andrew Lubatty's place at 630 East 17th Avenue, will partner with Ben Parsons, winemaker and founder of the Infinite Monkey Theorem, a Denver urban wi

  September 17, 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

• Going, going gone: Twelve tickets left for the James Beard Celebrity Chef Tour with Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson and Thanawat Bates

  Frasca Food & Wine executive chef Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson​The Celebrity Chef Tour benefiting the James Beard Foundation lands in Denver tonight, stopping at the Brown Palace, 321 17th Street. That's where Frasca Food & Wine executive chef (and 2008 James Beard award winner for Best Southwest Chef) Lachlan Mackinnon-Patterson will join host chefs Thanawat Bates and William Dexter for a reception and six-course tasting menu paired with wines chosen from master sommeliers Bobby Stuckey, f

  November 19, 2009