At Waters Edge, Chad and Jennifer Hulan are making wine in a former bank building.

Colorado brewers and vintners are coming up with new ways to use grapes, hops and wine barrels.

Carboy Winery in Littleton is creating Breckenridge connections, with a new location in the mountain town and a collaboration with Breckenridge Brewery next door.

Golden Moon Distillery in Golden, Colorado is known for its absinthe, but also makes many other rare European-style spirits.

Balistreri Vineyards grows grapes and produces award-winning wines in an industrial sector of northeast Denver.

After an exploration of some of Denver’s coziest wine shops, the takeaway is: Go small. Tiny bottle shops offer a delightful shopping experience, quaint ambience and unparalleled customer service. Owners and staff are friendly and knowledgeable and forge long-term relationships with returning customers. They offer high quality wines in every…

A flight of wine presents three or more glasses of wine that share common characteristics served together for comparison and enjoyment. What constitutes a great flight? That’s the question I posed to Logan Silbert, wine director at Boulder’s Black Cat Bistro (1964 13th Street). There are several ways to assemble…

Brrr, it’s cold out there — a cozy wine bar is just the place to take the edge off winter. Metro Denver has several wine bars with a warm, inviting ambiance and plenty of interesting vino. Here are five of our favorite cozy wine bars. BookBar 4280 Tennyson Street 303-284-0194…

Before my first taste of a new vermouth from one of Denver’s few urban wineries, the sweetish herbal concoction was just another ingredient in my favorite vodka martini. At the Infinite Monkey Theorem Urban Winery at 3200 Larimer Street, I discovered the unique, stand-alone virtues of a glass of vermouth. In…

Family roots and a love of wine run deep at the newly opened Deep Roots Winery & Bistro at 1516 Wazee Street in historic lower downtown Denver. Located in a long, narrow Victorian-era building just off the 16th Street Mall, the winery produces more than a dozen high quality wines…

In an inauspicious strip mall in Parker, Croatian winemaker Marko Copic is reviving the ancient practice of making wine in clay amphorae — and the results are exquisite. Purgatory Cellars (18921 Plaza Drive) makes thirty traditional and amphora-aged wines for consumption in its cozy Old World tasting room and for sale…

Far away from the wildfires that devastated parts of California’s wine country in recent weeks, Chad Yetka, co-founder of Bigsby’s Folly Winery & Restaurant at 3653 Wazee Street in RiNo, and I discussed the fire’s impact on the wine business. The grim subject seemed out of place in the sunlit…

My impression of the Rocker Spirits taproom, distilled into a few words: rugged yet classy, manly yet inviting to all. The distillery, located a few blocks off Littleton’s Main Street at 5587 South Hill Street, feels like an elegant makerspace for spirits and cocktails. Distinctive architectural salvage elements – dimpled steel…

Stem Ciders, at 2811 Walnut Street in RiNo, is hosting its annual Cider Grass fall festival from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. this Saturday, October 7. No, not that kind of grass; Stem Ciders is a family-friendly craft cider maker. Grass, as in bluegrass music, will play live all day, with…

With more than 200 wines, visiting wine experts and delectable pairings, the 2017 Boulder Burgundy Festival, an event 600 years in the making, comes to the St. Julien Hotel (and several other Boulder restaurants) from  October 13-15. Tickets are selling fast. A Saturday night dinner with New York Times wine critic…

The first day of autumn arrives this week and it’s time to put away the summer wine list. As harvest begins, what works best to drink with those savory, spicy fall meals? Let’s ask Ashley Hausman Vaughters, Colorado’s only Master of Wine, a designation conferred (appropriately) by the Institute of…

Confession: I avoided wine in a can out of shear snootiness. I’d gotten used to wine in a box and plastic corks, but wine in a can was a step too far down the path to wine in a 40-ounce with a side of Cheez Whiz. I was wrong. Wine…