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While our tasting room is closed for the season, you can still enjoy our wines and have them shipped directly to your door, or you can find our wines throughout Colorado in select shops and restaurants.

hWe’ll keep you posted here about upcoming events, but be sure to sign up for our newsletter to stay current on winter wine dinners, festivals, and pop-up tasting experiences!


UPCOMING EVENTS FOR THE 2023 SEASON

2023 Olde Fashioned Christmas – Saturday, December 2nd – Join us at the Holiday Village Market at this year’s Palisade “Olde Fashioned Christmas.” We are tasting and selling two of our wines, alongside wines from Restoration Vineyards, Sauvage Spectrum, and Colorado Vintners, in the Kosi Lounge, from 10:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. We’ve even assembled a four-pack of wines, with a bottle from each of these four unique wineries!

Palisade Winter Wine Wonderland – Saturday, December 16th – We’ll be pouring and selling wines at this exciting winter festival, hosted by and thrown at The Ordinary Fellow, in Palisade! Join us and a few of the best Colorado wineries – The Ordinary Fellow, Carboy Winery, Buckel Family Wines, and Sutcliffe Vineyards – where you can enjoy culinary delights and plates from Le Snack Fine Foods and artisanal treats from a variety of Western Slope purveyors.

Be sure to sign up for our newsletter to get on the list to receive updates and ticketing information for all of our 2023 events throughout the state.

Our 2023 Colorado Culinary Seasonal Samplers are B Our 2023 Colorado Culinary Seasonal Samplers are BACK in time for holiday gifting!

We’ve included four of our crisp, aromatic white and rosé wines in this culinary-centric collection, all perfectly suitable for holiday food pairings:

🥂 2022 Rosé of Chambourcin
🥂 2021 Dry Riesling
🥂 NV Dry Gewürztraminer
🥂 2021 Viognier

We’ve also added products from two outstanding Colorado makers, who happen to be among the kindest, hardworking guys in the CO culinary scene:

🌿 2 jars of our favorite seasoning staples from @thespiceguyco – Roasted Garlic Blend and Citrus Pucker Pepper
🌶️ 1 jar of @misoheat Chili Paste, made from umami-rich red miso and freshly roasted red peppers

These have permanent placements in our kitchen, and they're sure to become favorites of yours.

To further elevate the enjoyment factor, we've included elegant, stemless glasses, specially made for emphasizing the aromatics in floral white and rosé wines:

🍷 A pair of our branded, 13-ounce @riedel_official "O" crystal wine glasses

With $20 flat-rate UPS ground shipping, this gift set a perfect way to treat yourself this holiday season or to spread some Colorado cheer to loved ones near and far.

This specially priced gift pack is not eligible for club discounts.

Big thanks to my (Jayme’s) sister, @heatherperezconde, for her smiles 😀 and hand-modeling 👋🏻 help, despite some cold temps!! 🫶🏼

Visit our site for the details or hit the link in our bio – and have a happy holiday season!!

📷: @hollyandflora

#StormCellarWine #DrinkColoradoWine #WestElksAVA #ColoradoProud #MisoHeat #TheSpiceGuyCo #SupportColoradoBusinesses #ShopSmallColorado #Reidel
Let’s step back in time a little. ⏰ The grape Let’s step back in time a little. ⏰

The grapes are in.
The bins are clean and (almost) put away.
The grafted vines are protected.
The fermentations have finished or are slowly rolling along.
The tasting room is closed.

All is quiet.

Today marks the return of shorter days and longer nights, and while we are thrilled for the reprieve, we still have a lot of work to do, to ensure we experience a season of much-needed rest.

Can you believe we brought in our first round of fruit in mid-August?

We haven’t really come up for air since then, and we have SO many stories to share with you and experiences to document!

Since we didn’t really post much these past few months, we’ll be reliving (and processing!) the season, the work, the people, the challenges, and the celebrations here, through photos and videos we (and some talented friends) have taken this summer and fall.

Thankfully, this has been our smoothest harvest so far, and now it’s time to let that truly sink in.

Thank you all for joining us on the journey this 2023 season! We have high hopes for what’s ahead and much gratitude for what we currently hold in our hearts.

#TSCHarvest2023

📷: @sky.lahood of @skylartaylorphotography

#StormCellarWine #WestElksAVA #DrinkColoradoWine #Harvest2023🍇 #WinemakersLife #SommelierWinemaker #ColoradoWine #WinemakingProcess
Join us this evening for the final Friday Steak Ni Join us this evening for the final Friday Steak Night of the season!

The weather looks incredible, and chefs Joe and Kevin have sourced the best end-of-season produce for this special evening. You can check out their menu in our stories.

They’ll be serving from 4:00 until 7:00, and we’ll have wines chilled down and ready for you. No reservation is necessary.

Thank you for 23 delicious Fridays this season, @autourdesaveur – it’s been so much fun, and you’ve blessed this valley so much.

Lee, Kevin, Joe, Jayme, and Steve – let’s go! 💥

🎥: @hollyandflora
📷: @sky.lahood

#StormCellarWine #WestElksAVA #DrinkColoradoWine #ColoradoChef #SteakNight #NorthForkValley
UPDATE - - - We have enough hands for Friday!! Tha UPDATE - - - We have enough hands for Friday!! Thanks so much to all who have reached out to help! If you are interested in helping on Saturday, text or call either of the numbers below. 🫶🏼

What do we immediately do, after all of the grapes are in?

We get after pressing vineyard tasks, STAT. 💪🏼

But we need a little help this weekend – are you in?

We are filling our graft shelters with compost, to ensure that they survive the upcoming below-freezing temperatures.

We’ve cut up the tubes, attached them to their bamboo posts, and hauled in the compost. We’re ready!

HOW TO HELP US OUT - - -

The weekend looks like it will be beautiful, so if you want to get outside for a few hours and lend a hand, let us know!

⏱️ Time windows:
Friday - 8:00 a.m. until noon (then the final
Steak Night 😢)
Saturday and Sunday - 8:00 a.m. until sunset

Please don’t just show up - instead, reach out to us first here via DM or call/text Steve at 303.946.3243 or Jayme at 720.839.7487.

🤔 FAQs:

❓Is this real work?
✔️Yes, dress appropriately and bring gloves.

❓What are we doing?
✔️We are scooping compost into grow tubes.

❓Is it paid?
✔️Not in dollars, but we are sure you know how we compensate our volunteers! 🥂😋

❓Does an hour or two really help?
✔️Absolutely! It is task that just takes some time, so every bit of help counts.

Thank you to the solid handful of helping hands who’ll be here this weekend! We are going to make it!

#StormCellarWine #TSCHarvest2023 #WestElksAVA #DrinkColoradoWine #VineyardLife #ModernFarmer #GondorCallsForAid #HighElevationVineyards #Co loradoFarmer
A little over two weeks ago, we wrapped up tucking A little over two weeks ago, we wrapped up tucking, thinning, and trimming the Reeder Mesa vineyard, where we source Riesling from this special, two-acre plot.

It’s just an hour’s drive away from our vineyard, but the growing region is quite different. It’s still an alpine-desert climate and terrain, but its weather is tempered by the winds from the Grand Mesa, there in the town of Whitewater.

These old vines were killed back to the ground in 2020, and we didn’t receive a harvest of grapes in 2021, understandably. However, we did harvest a small portion in 2022, but it only made its way into a rosé, since it was such a small portion.

This year, it’s different.

The two of us pruned back these old vines hard in April, and they’ve responded with ferocity and vigor.

The clusters are healthy.
The canopy is vibrantly green.
The plants are proportionately cropped.

We have the highest hopes of making a 100% varietal expression of Riesling from this special vineyard that’s located high on the mesa, overlooking the Dominguez-Escalante canyon area.

Those of you, who helped us harvest in 2022, will notice a huge difference this year, and we can’t wait to get after these grapes in just over a month’s time!

It’s all one step at a time at this point of the year.

But isn’t it always like that??

#TSCHarvest2023 #StormCellarWine #Harvest2023🍇 #WestElksAVA #VineyardLife #HighElevationVineyards #HighElevationWine #DrinkColoradoWine #ColoradoWine #ColoradoRiesling #VineyardManagement #ReederMesaVineyards
Took the fancy camera outside tonight to catch som Took the fancy camera outside tonight to catch some last-light shots on one of our Riesling plots.

It’s the vineyard plot with the rogue Pinot Noir vines inter-planted within it.

As you’d expect, the two grow varieties ripen at very different times of the upcoming fall season – take notice that we said “upcoming” – it is still high summer here. 😎

While balancing the busy tasting room responsibilities, we’ve also been weeding, prepping vine shelters, tucking canes, thinning shoots, and measuring sugar levels of our grapes bound for the 2023 vintage.

We also receive Gewürztraminer, Sauvignon Blanc, and (potentially) Grüner Veltliner this week.

We are feeling the harvest push.

Taking time to walk the vines and slow down with the camera and just casually chat about what’s going on within the busy, yet quiet, vines provides a calmness. A center.

Let’s go, harvest 2023.

We’re (almost) ready for you.

#StormCellarWine #WestElksAVA #NikonPhotography #Harvest2023 #Harvest2023🍇 #TSCHarvest2023 #DrinkColoradoWine #VineyardLife #RieslingGrapes #PinotNoirGrapes #September2023 #HollyAndFlora #JaymeGrowsDrinks #JohnDeereGator
Lately we have been waking up in the night, thinki Lately we have been waking up in the night, thinking about our sparkling wine and wondering if the secondary fermentation successfully occurred. 😳 First-time jitters; you know?

So we chilled down a bottle, cracked it open, and, as you can see, IT’S SPARKLING!!!

After one of the busiest Steak Nights on the books, this was such a special reward for us.

Unfortunately, this Sekt-style, traditional-method sparkling Riesling won’t be ready for a few more months. We are letting the wine rest on its lees (the spent yeast cells inside the bottle) and letting the wine further develop.

This phase was a huge hurdle for us, and now it’s on to disgorgement, dosage, and bottling — we’ll elaborate on those terms soon, but for now, this night is for celebrating!!

C L O U D B U R S T - - -  coming soon!!

Thanks for being there tonight, @espressopaeonia, @autourdesaveur (🥩🌖), @hardkor – @hollyandflora and @big_zen love you so much, and so does this community!

#StormCellarWine #DrinkColoradoWine #WestElksAVA #SparklingRiesling #Sekt #ColoradoRiesling #TraditionalMethodRieslling #HollyAndFlora
When you’ve tasted wines from the @westelksava a When you’ve tasted wines from the @westelksava all day, get out here on Saturday evening for a sunset, all-vinyl dance party with @big_zen on the turntables – yes, this is Steve – come out and see him play a curated, live DJ set, bringing the - - -

🕺🏽 HOUSE
🕺🏽 DANCE
🕺🏽 ELECTRO
🕺🏽 FUNK

Get loose, shake it off, dance it out, bring it on, and celebrate the West Elks Wine Trail with us, Steve and Jayme, here at The Storm Cellar.

✔️ We’ll have house-made rosé sangria, à la @hollyandflora.
✔️ We’ll bring the beats.
✔️ And we’ll have a special selection of whites and rosés just for this weekend!!

Morgan from @espressopaeonia will be slinging wine with us! He makes a banging espresso, so you know his wine pours won’t disappoint – it’s gonna be a fun one.

Shoutout to @ositofarms for winning the looks the last time we threw down. 😎

See you tomorrow!!

6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
14139 Runzel Gulch Road, Hotchkiss, CO

#BigZen #WestElksWineTrail #DrinkColoradoWine #StormCellarWine #WestElksWineries #VigneronsAndVinyl #DanceParty #WineAndBeats
#STORMCELLARWINE

            

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