When I officially announced during the May 18th Wine Board meeting that I am retiring at the end of June, there was spontaneous applause. I am not sure if that was elation that I am finally leaving, or an acknowledgement that I’ve been doing this for a long time. Probably both.
After many years of perfecting their skills, Cindie Sorensen of Zenzen Gardens and Alfred Eames Cellars have joined their visions together to bring the newest wine tasting room to the North Fork Valley.
Colorado’s wine country is far from California’s famed Napa Valley. For one, it’s much harder to grow grapes here. “It’s not easy. We don’t have enough water … and the weather is just unpredictable,” says Doug Caskey, the executive director of the state’s Wine Industry Development Board.
The Colorado Association for Viticulture & Enology (CAVE), is pleased to announce the details for the 32nd Annual Colorado Mountain Winefest, as well as the first scheduled events for this year’s Colorado Wine Week.The Festival in the Park will take place Saturday, September 16, 2023 in Palisade, CO.
It’s a big honor to have your peers nominate you for this award,” says Jayme Henderson, who owns The Storm Cellar with her husband, Steve Steese. The two were both working as sommeliers, co-writing a list of 750 wines at a Denver restaurant and regularly tasting 100-point massive California Cabernets, when they decided to purchase a vineyard four hours west in 2017.
