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4-Bottle Colorado Culinary Seasonal Sampler

Dreaming of a white (wine) Christmas?

This special 4-bottle holiday white wine sampler is a perfect treat for yourself or gift for your favorite home cook and wine-lover.

It features four of our high-elevation, Colorado-grown, white wines and four delicious culinary treats from three of our favorite Colorado small businesses.

$130, plus $15 flat-rate shipping

PURCHASE

What’s included in your sampler?

The Storm Cellar’s 2019 Viognier
The Storm Cellar’s 2018 Chardonnay
The Storm Cellar’s 2019 RRV, dry white blend
The Storm Cellar’s NV Fire + Ice Riesling
One 8-ounce jar of Misohot chili paste
Two 4-ounce jars of seasoning blends from The Spice Guy
One 8-ounce jar of smoked tomato jam from Forage Sisters

Which businesses and people are you supporting?

Zach Johnston of The Spice Guy

We met Zach, aka “The Spice Guy,” during our 2019 season with the Colorado FIVE culinary team. Hearing some of the best chefs in Colorado all swear by his products intrigued us, and once we tried a few of his blends, we were sold, as well. Zach’s primary business revolved around the Denver restaurant scene, and his business dramatically shifted this year. We are proud to support him and his team.

We selected two of our favorite seasonal seasoning blends from The Spice Guy’s arsenal – “Midnight Toker” and “Colorado Chicken and Veg.” You’re probably cooking at home way more than you used to, and odds are that your spice rack is either depleted or stale. You can’t imagine what these blends will do for your cooking game, and both of them pair perfectly with the white wines we selected.

Chef Curtis Bell of Misohot

We had heard the name Curtis Bell spoken very highly of for years in the Denver culinary scene before we finally met Curtis last December, where we were booth neighbors at the Fetch Holiday Market. He is a renown chef and culinary educator with a storied career. After yet another glowing recommendation from our friend, Colorado sushi-guru, Elan Wenzel, we took home our first jar. It has become a staple in our house ever since.

Curtis’ product, Misohot, is a unique twist on chili paste that utilizes a base of red miso, rather than vinegar, adding a wallop of savory, umami goodness to virtually any dish. It’s especially magical in ramen, but is incredibly versatile – in soups, on eggs or burgers, or even as a marinade. Curtis offers serving suggestions and recipes for Misohot on his website.

Chefs Nicole Carrillo and Mirasol Gomez of Forage Sisters

Our good friends Nicole and Mirasol started their farm-to-table event company, Forage Sisters, out of a love for curating meals and experiences focused on food from local, Western Slope farms. We have had the pleasure of partnering with them at several wine dinners, where they cook asado-style, Argentine- and Italian-influenced cuisines.

Fire is a central part of their cooking technique, so naturally, sharing one of their signature creations, a smoked tomato jam, was fitting. This smoky, savory jam is perfect for colder months, while also bringing a taste of summer-grown tomatoes to the season’s richer dishes. Serve their smoked tomato jam with holiday charcuterie boards, as a spread on sandwiches, or simply over freshly baked sourdough toast.

$130, plus $15 flat-rate shipping
PURCHASE

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We'll be sharing our own reviews and recipes, using these culinary treats and pairing them with our wines, throughout the holiday season. Be sure to follow us on Instagram, so you'll know when we're posting.

We'll be dreaming of a white (wine) Christmas here in Hotchkiss, Colorado – wishing you the happiest of holidays!!


What is our favorite thing to do over the winter s What is our favorite thing to do over the winter season? 💥  BLENDING. We’ve been tasting through our just-finished wines and we’re planning out what our 2020 lineup will be.
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What’s going on in our tasting glass?
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This is the base for our 2020 Rosé of Chambourcin. The grape might be new to you, so we’ll share a little more about this rosé-bound variety and how it’s tasting!
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📍 The grape is a French-American hybrid.
📍 It does well in Colorado’s cooler, more compact growing season.
📍 Chambourcin is the third most-planted grape in the Loire Valley in France.
📍 It’s only been available since 1963.
📍 It’s classified as a “teinturier”, which means it’s one of the few grapes that has pink-hued juice (most grape juice is clear, even in red grapes).
📍 Ours is bright and racy, exhibits a ripe, red fruit flavor profile, with notes of tart cherry and plum.
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Have you tried Chambourcin before? If so, do you have a favorite producer?
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Next time you stop by our tasting room, we’ll pour you a tank sample — give us a call or send us an email, and we’ll schedule an appointment!! 💫 This wine will be part of our spring club shipment, so sign up now!
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Snow day vibes. ❄️ We got out for a brisk walk Snow day vibes. ❄️ We got out for a brisk walk this morning, and now it’s time to bake, make 2021 plans, submit grant applications, and decorate the tree.
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And pack up wine orders!! 💥 Thank you so much for sending wine to loved ones this holiday season!! We pack up all of our shipments here on site (with chilly hands!! 🥶👋🏼❄️), and we are thrilled and grateful for your support.
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We are sending you all the biggest thanks for all the #winelove this season. Stay warm, stay safe, and stay well!!
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It’s not too late to give the gift of Colorado wine. Visit the link in our profile for details on our Colorado Culinary Seasonal Sampler, or catch our previous post!!
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We’ve got a special holiday food and wine pack f We’ve got a special holiday food and wine pack for you!! 💥💥💥 We teamed up with three small Colorado companies to create a “Colorado Culinary Gift Pack” that’s filled with local wine and foodie treats!
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What’s in the pack?
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🥂 2019 Viognier
🥂 2019 RRV White Blend
🥂 2018 Chardonnay
🥂 NV Fire + Ice Riesling
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🌶 @misohotofficial chili paste
🌿 @thespiceguyco spice blends
🍅 @foragesisters smoked tomato jam
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It’s priced at $130 and gets $15 flat-rate shipping to 41 states. We are shipping them out from our winery in Hotchkiss, and they are packed with LOVE!
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Get the details via the link in our profile and #SHOPSMALL this season!
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We’ll be sharing recipes, pairings, and tasting notes here on Instagram, so you’ll have plenty of inspiration to add a punch of flavor to your home cooking.
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CHEERS!!
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We just capped our very first pèt-nat, made with We just capped our very first pèt-nat, made with Chambourcin grapes from the Grand Valley, along with a little estate Riesling. 🍾🍾🍾 We are excited to see how this pink bubbly develops over the next few weeks.
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Hopefully, we’ll be able to pop a couple bottles for NYE! We only made 12 bottles of this sparkling wine, so you’ll have to wait until next fall, when we make a larger drop.
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Catch more BTS on our most recent reel and in our stories. 🎥
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R I E S L I N G U P D A T E —> Since our last p R I E S L I N G  U P D A T E —> Since our last post, we’ve gotten a lot of questions about the status of our existing Riesling vines and how they weathered through the super-cold freeze that hit a few weeks ago.
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We’ve heard from several neighboring vineyards that the bud damage was severe, and that 2021 yields are going to be low or non-existent for certain varieties. Buds that house next year’s grapes were formed over this past summer and hadn’t hardened off for dormancy, when temps dipped into single digits.
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We are collecting bud samples from the vines this afternoon and getting an accurate prediction on bud damage in the next couple days. We are expecting a lot of damage to our primary buds, but we also know that Riesling is a pretty cold-hardy variety.
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Even the clusters from this year’s harvest that you see in this photo are smaller than normal because we lost a lot of primary buds last fall.
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On a positive note, our four tanks of Riesling are slowly fermenting around 55°F and showing great promise in flavor, acid balance, and complexity.
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Is this our next album cover!!? 😎 Nope. It’s Is this our next album cover!!? 😎  Nope. It’s actually the two of us at the end of the most hardcore two days of the season.
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Last year, a dramatic early frost killed our newly planted Chardonnay vines, so we were especially nervous when we saw a similar climatic situation approaching this year.
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We hope that we over-compensated in protecting all of the new vines that we planted this past spring, but this year’s freeze was even worse than last year’s, so ... fingers crossed.
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Here we are, bundled up after mounding up over 1,200 vines with as much soil as we could manage, to cover the tender graft lines, as the snow was rolling in.
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The last row of 44 vines was a test of our resolve. The temps dropped to 20°, the snow began to fall, and the sun set early. We turned up the drum-and-bass and channeled a do-or-die vibe.
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We did the best we could, so we’ll see how we fared this next spring. For now, we are beyond grateful for a successful year at the tasting room but are simultaneously excited for a change of direction and shift of priorities in this colder season.
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#reallife
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We are sending out an incredibly heartfelt thanks We are sending out an incredibly heartfelt thanks to our friend and chef @brandtbishop of @bishopqualitygoods for keeping our business deliciously alive this summer.
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According to current regulations, as a winery, we cannot operate our tasting room, unless we partner with a restaurant or commercial kitchen. It only made sense to us to ask Brandt to create seasonally driven, locally sourced charcuterie boards, so that we could maintain our tasting room offerings.
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We have sold them out every weekend, to rave reviews, during our tasting room season.
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Thank you, Brandt, for always giving your all, sharing your personal taste, and supporting local, CO brands and growers on each plate you produced.
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On the rare occasion that there was a leftover plate, we totally appreciated and enjoyed the love you put into these boards and into so many mouths and hearts here in the North Fork Valley.
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Someone’s getting mighty big. 💥 Captain Murph Someone’s getting mighty big. 💥 Captain Murphy is learning new tricks, learning to love rides in the truck, and trying his best to get along with our cats.
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He’s seven months old and just under 40 pounds. He proved challenging to have around during harvest this year, as he kept wanting to eat grapes, which are toxic to dogs. We were constantly having to call him away from the crush pad.
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He’s learned how to give his paw on command and offer his “other paw”, when asked. We are working on “lie down” and “stay”, especially when vehicles drive by.
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Come by and say hello to this sweet addition to our family. He’ll be here for hugs tomorrow at our final Friday at the tasting room.
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Will we see you there?!
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Visit our previous post for details on our fall release tasting, paired with seasonal small plates, curated by Chef @brandtbishop of @bishopqualitygoods, from 2:00 until 5:30 tomorrow.
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Club members, drop by to pick up your fall release!! 💥💥💥
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