For 20 years, Carlson Vineyard’s Open House has been a favorite Thanksgiving weekend destination in Palisade wine country for two decades. Yup, the annual event is celebrating 20 years come post-Thanksgiving weekend.
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Canyon Wind and Anemoi: Same people, two distinct wine brands
Jay Christianson didn’t waste much time in overhauling the Canyon Wind Cellars world. In the same year his parents left the business to he and wife Jennifer, he went ahead and created a second label.
Anemoi Wines
Canyon Wind Cellars is one of the mainstays in the Colorado wine industry, having produced solid, Old World-style Bordeaux-style estate wines since 1996. Fifteen years later marked the time for a new guard of family grapes. Proprietors Jay and Jennifer Christianson released the first wine of the family’s second wine brand, Anemoi, in September 2011. The [...]
11 reasons Colorado’s wine country is better than Napa’s
When our beer-loving governor declared this week Colorado Wine Week (June 5–11), area winos rejoiced. It’s a big deal when the most powerful politician in the state stands up for the local juice. Still, there’s a whole lot of PR and tasting to do along the Front Range before the masses start ordering Colorado wine. [...]
Tracking down the elusive petit verdot
Petit verdot can be like drinking ink. That is if you can actually find it in a bottle of local wine. It’s one of those blending grapes that garners respect in a Bordeaux as a 5 percent grape to give gorgeous coloring to these world-class wines. On its own? It’s just not that common. Colorado [...]
Carlson Vineyards 2008 Tyrannosaurus Red Lemberger
If you’ve ever met winemaker Parker Carlson and happen to know what a good lemberger tastes like, you can almost imagine it’s a grape that describes him well. It’s bold, but soft. Grand, but playful. Serious is not a word that would be a good descriptor of either, at least on first impression. So it’s [...]
July giveaway: Win two bottles of Balistreri Vineyards wine
Well, after a month off with no giveaways, we figured it was time to sweeten the pot again. If you are not already signed up to the ColoradoWino.com monthly eBlast, here’s some more enticement — other than the sweet email you’ll get from us: Two great bottles of wine from Balistreri Vineyards. Using grapes from [...]
Verso Cellars 2004 Cabernet Sauvignon
Verso Cellars is playing an interesting game. The winery focuses on one grape: cabernet sauvignon. Instead of offering a horizontal tasting of various grapes, blends and styles, Verso offers a vertical of cabernet sauvignon. Available in the tasting room now are four offerings from 2003 through 2006. We hear a 2008 is on its way. [...]
Did the wrong Colorado wines go to Paris?
It certainly was a big deal in March when four Colorado wines were featured at a tasting in Paris. The U.S. Department of Agriculture had set the whole thing up to promote domestic wines to the French, the world’s biggest wine snobs. Varaison Vineyards in Palisade brought two versions of its 2007 merlot and a [...]
Garfield Estate Cellars 2009 Viognier
American viognier is meant to be every bit the medium-bodied white wine that its French origins suggest. We actually make them a bit drier than a version from, say, Condrieu. That’s great for me and those who love their whites a little drier. Garfield Estate Cellars winemaker Rainer Thoma, who is sadly leaving his duties [...]