Spring in the wine industry means the anticipation of new wines, which have been sitting in barrels or aging tanks for months waiting to be bottled and put on liquor store shelves. More

For a relaxing full weekend with no driving and many wine experiences, take the Colorado Wine Train, sponsored by the Colorado branch of the American Automobile Association.

The More

Serving a luscious prime rib Saturday night? If conventional wine wisdom guides you, you’ll snag a favorite Cabernet Sauvignon from the store and cross “wine” off More

For the wine proletariat — or the dinner host who’s in a hurry to pick something up on the way home from work tonight — here are a few fail-safe wine-and-food pai More

If you live in Boulder, do business in Colorado or simply prefer soy milk in your daily double latte, you likely know the story of how Steve Demos went from peddling tofu out of a More

Winemakers, like any farmers, have to take what nature has given them in the way of a grape crop. That’s as true in Colorado’s wine industry as anywhere else.  And More

Pat Miller, aka The Gabby Gourmet, hosts “The Gabby Gourmet Restaurant Show” on KHOW-AM 630, every Saturday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Miller also writes the “Gabb More

California cult wineries are by definition small and their wines exclusive, expensive and predominantly Cabernet Sauvignon. About a dozen wineries have reached cult status. One of More

“Sustainability” is the concept du jour in the business world – not a new idea necessarily but an idea whose time has clearly arrived as we focus on the need to b More

Among the newest wineries in Washington state is the Waters Winery, which has started earning a reputation in its short life for Old World-style wines. The winery, started in Walla More

Like many great vintages, women winemakers are a rare find.

A 2005 Gallup poll reported that women are more than 52 percent of the population and buy 55 percent of the wine. More

STEEL CORK
After a champagne spill due to a faulty bottle stopper, industrial designer Joseph De La Cruz took it upon himself to come up with a better one. Debuting about five More

Shopping for wine can be a great experience, much more interesting than buying a six-pack or bottle of spirits. But unless I know precisely what I want before I make the trip, navi More

You’re starting your dinner at a neighborhood bistro by enjoying a fresh salad. Do you know where those greens came from?

Perhaps you’re savoring them at The Kitchen More

Canoe Ridge Columbia Valley Cabernet – 2003
Christophe Paubert is the winemaker and obviously has brought his French influence to the wines he is crafti More

Probably no other woman working in the Colorado hospitality industry has more inside skinny on the state of women’s hospitality careers than Ilene Kamsler.

As the presiden More

OK, this is the month when seemingly all of America raises glasses of Guinness Stout to the patron saint of Ireland. But while you’re toasting Saint Patrick on March 17, Brian Dunn More

Last month’s news that Wine X magazine had folded provided an interesting backdrop to this note, a letter from the publisher in the first issue of Vine magazine that can be conside More

Thai food has risen from a little-understood ethnic cuisine to downright trendy both internationally and in the United States, and Colorado, too, is in a growth mode when it comes More

Close your eyes while listening to John Sutcliffe speak and your mind might very well place him in a gentleman’s club in London. So it is somewhat of a shock, with your eyes More

The four Colorado restaurants with the largest wine cellars made themselves that way for a reason: to serve their customers with the largest choice of wine to match with their food More

The four Colorado restaurants with the largest wine cellars made themselves that way for a reason: to serve their customers with the largest choice of wine to match with their food More

ASPEN — The St. Regis Resort, formerly the Ritz Carlton, is now a jewel of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide.

Following a $37 million renovation in 2005, the Aspe More

It’s 9 a.m. in mid-September, and 10 judges are sitting at tables in a hotel conference room in Grand Junction, facing the prospect of tasting about 175 wines by the end of t More

Sure, when gourmands think of Italy they think of red wine, red sauce, and pizzas and pastas accompanied by the same. (OK, maybe they think of Pavarotti and Sophia Loren, too.) No More

The Italian-American community newspaper Andiamo! recently dubbed Parisi the “best Italian restaurant” in Colorado.

Simone Parisi opened the eponymously named restau More

Cheers to the Colorado vintners whose families transplanted their Italian roots in Colorado soil and today celebrate their ancestors’ passion and methods for winemaking.

S More

In the world of food fads, one ethnic cuisine endures and prospers in America: Italian.

Pizza, sausage, veggie and pasta have become part of the Colorado and U.S. restaurant More

“I’m second-generation Italian,” says Dawn Gaudini, who is known within local wine circles as “La Madonna del Vino.”

“When I was growing u More

If you didn’t have time last May to pore through the Colorado wine industry’s economic impact study, rest assured that your homegrown wine industry is healthy and relat More

Italy is home to well over 1,500 different grapes. Most of us are familiar with Sangiovese (used in Chianti) or Nebbiolo (in Barolo), but there are other grapes that are equally im More

As the ski season winds down and mud season approaches, April isn’t the month you’d expect to see heavy traffic around the Vail Village - unless you’re aware of t More

All of the wines reviewed in this issue of VINE issue are new to Colorado, not necessarily all made in Colorado. One of the advantages of living in a state that is a test market fo More

Exploring the food and wine of Colorado’s restaurants is an experience that reveals dining quality can be found not only in the elegant restaurants of the state’s resor More

Marty Jones is a Denverbased promoter of smallbatch beer and music. He drinks left-handed, plays guitar right-handed, and his dog’s name is Barley. Marty refuses to eat i More

It’s not often a business emerges in the food industry that receives accolades in a national magazine in just three short months. eat! drink!, a unique wine-and-specialty-foo More

Decorating a kitchen or dining area in a mountain home used to require a trip to Denver. Today, mountain homeowners have stores closer at hand, and, in the Vail-Beaver Creek area, More

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From the most beautiful of wine-country scenery to the snazziest accessory to dress your wine More

By Beginning as early as April, farmers' markets open across the state and thousands of Coloradans converge on them, from Cherry Creek in Denver to Grand Junction on the Wester More

To quote roots rocker Webb Wilder, "You're never too small to hit the big time." Kevin DeLange understands this more than any brewer in Colorado these days. A few wee More

When the U.S. Supreme Court issued an opinion in May 2005 on a case styled Granholm v. Held, the headlines read something like: "Pop the Champagne: Court Knocks Down Wine Ship More

Colorado wineries arrive late to the wine game. Establishing a foothold in this hypercompetitive market is now, by any measure, a daunting challenge. The fact is that more wine, be More

As a world-class resort destination, Vail needs no introduction. The town and ski mountain are safely ensconced on most every "best of" travel and leisure list compiled a More

Driving along the highways adjacent to the streams and rivers in Colorado, you’ve likely seen a bevy of fly fishermen wading in the frigid waters. This sport is growing in populari More