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Find our wines at these fine wine shops and restaurants throughout Colorado.

We released the first wines from our inaugural vintage in June of 2019. We’ve collaborated with restaurants, farmers markets, and bottle shops throughout Colorado this year and will continue keeping this page updated, as those relationships solidify and new ones develop. Check out our events page for upcoming markets, events, and festival lineups.


 

Our tasting room is closed for the season.

We are happy to open our sales room for you or arrange a private tasting – just give us a call or send us an email.

Come see us next season on Friday, Saturday, or Sunday, from 11:00a.m. until 7:00p.m., June through October.

We are located at 14139 Runzel Gulch Road, Hotchkiss, CO 81419 and can be reached at 970.589.3142.

Please be courteous of our neighbors and yield to downhill traffic. There are two sharp switchbacks on our driveway, so drive slowly and cautiously. We look forward to seeing you!


 
Denver and the Front Range
  • Argonaut Wine & Liquor, Denver
  • Bevy’s Liquor World
  • Blanchard Family Wines Tasting Room, Denver
  • Coohills, Denver
  • Divino Wine & Spirits, Denver
  • Elway’s, Cherry Creek
  • Lukas Liquors, Lone Tree
  • Mercantile Dining & Provision, Denver
  • Mile High Wine Cellars, Arvada
  • Mondo Vino Wine & Spirits, Highlands
  • Mr. B’s Wine & Spirits, Denver
  • Mr. B’s Wine & Spirits, Stanley Marketplace
  • Ocean Prime, DTC
  • Q House, Denver
  • The Regional, Fort Collins
  • Shanahan’s Steakhouse, DTC
  • Vesta, Denver
  • Ya Ya’s Eurobistro, DTC
Paonia, Hotchkiss, and Delta
  • Big B’s Delicious Orchards, Hotchkiss
  • The Flying Fork, Paonia
  • Paonia Liquor Store, Paonia
  • Tri-R Liquors, Hotchkiss
  • Whiskey’s Wine, Spirits & Beer, Delta
Grand Junction, Montrose, and Palisade
  • 626 on Rood, Grand Junction
  • Bin 707 Foodbar, Grand Junction
  • DeBeque Canyon Winery Tasting Room, Palisade
  • Fisher’s Liquor Barn, Grand Junction
  • The Liquor Store, Montrose
  • Mesa Park Vineyards Tasting Room, Palisade
  • Palisade Café, Palisade
  • Pêche, Palisade
  • Redlands Liquor, Grand Junction
  • Tacoparty, Grand Junction
Mountain Towns
  • Basecamp Liquors, Frisco
  • Beaver Liquors, Avon
  • Cooper Wine & Spirits, Glenwood Springs
  • Riverwalk Wine & Spirits, Edwards
  • The Rose, Edwards
  • Vin 48 Restaurant Wine Bar, Avon
Southern Colorado
  • Fenceline Cider Taproom, Mancos


Get in touch

Wine is greater than the sum of its parts. And so is our community. If you’ve had an amazing moment at one of these restaurants listed here, we’d love to hear it! Also, let us know if your favorite wine shop or restaurant needs our wine there. We’ll get back with you and try to make it happen!

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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P O P – U P 💥 Fall wine release party with P O P –  U P 💥  Fall wine release party with chef @brandtbishop this Friday!!
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Join us here at our tasting room this Friday, October 30th, for our official fall wine release, featuring the final six wines from the 2019 vintage!
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Chef Brandt will be here from 2:00 until 5:30, serving up an eclectic menu of small plates, each priced around $10, with a vegetarian option! 🍴 Get the menu details in our stories.
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We’ll be pouring free tastings of these new wines during our regular tasting room hours, from 11:00 until 7:00. We can’t wait to hear what you think!!
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✔️ 2019 Viognier
✔️ 2019 Roussanne
✔️ 2019 RRV, white blend
✔️ NV Estate Fire + Ice Riesling
✔️ 2019 Estate Chardonnay
✔️ 2019 Estate Reserve Dry Riesling
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While our spring release was filled with delicate whites and rosés, this fall selection is bolder, richer, and more textural — perfect for the cozy months and holiday cuisines ahead.
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⚡️ Tastings are held outside, with groups seated at their own table, with adequate social distancing.
⚡️ Mask up! 😷 We’ll be masked up, as well, while we serve you.
⚡️ Our driveway is freshly graded and dry since the snowstorm, for those of you, who know what the drive up here can be like! 😬
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See you here!! 🤩
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Can’t make it? These are the wines featured in our fall wine club shipment. 🖥 Visit our website for details on how you can join!
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We mounded up all 1,250 of our newly planted, graf We mounded up all 1,250 of our newly planted, grafted Chardonnay and Pinot Noir vines yesterday and the day before, and they are now nestled under 6-10” of soil. We are beyond tired but seriously thankful that we finished up the process just after dark, right after the snow began to fall.
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Temperatures dipped down to 12°F last night, but hopefully, since we harvested our grapes from our producing vines a couple of weeks early, the buds for next year’s harvest are okay and the vines are further along in their progression toward dormancy.
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Since we will hopefully be planting 4,000 vines next spring, we are researching a means for more efficient (mechanized) mounding to protect graft lines. Hand-mounding each vine is simply unfeasible. That’s a winter project. ⚡️ And it’s NOT for today.
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Today is for relaxing and being grateful that the 2020 growing season is behind us.
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We brought in the entirety of our estate Riesling We brought in the entirety of our estate Riesling last weekend. It’s slowly fermenting, and we are slowly beginning to slow down, ourselves, as well. 😛 We are beyond honored to have been on the cover of the @denverpost this past Thursday.
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Did you get a chance to read it?! 💥 @josie_sexton covered our challenging harvest beautifully, and it was rather surreal to see these photos by @wwoodyco from our harvest, which all feels like a blur at this moment.
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Get the link in our bio and hear how our upcoming, to-be-released, 2019 Reserve Dry Riesling was produced last season and how this year has proven to be a challenging-yet-delicious vintage.
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We are humbled and honored and thrilled to be part of the Colorado wine community. Josie highlights some of Colorado’s forward-thinking producers from around the state. We are in great company, and we are only collectively growing stronger.
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TOGETHER.
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“I have no idea what I’m supposed to do. I only know what I CAN do.”
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— Captain James T. Kirk, Star Trek, “Into Darkness”
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