Tag: Wine
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34th annual Wine Festival of Colorado Springs blends flavor with fundraising
Sweet, bold or a little bitter, however you take your wine, Colorado Springs will be pouring it by the glassful next week. The 34th annual Wine Festival of Colorado Springs returns Wednesday and runs through March 7, bringing four days of tastings, seminars, winemaker dinners and a grand gala to venues across the city. Since…
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Wine Guy: Have a sparkling new year
Although sparkling wine is appropriate for any occasion, even weekly dinner, the holiday season – especially celebrating the New Year – is its prime time. Champagne is the world’s most prestigious bubbly. Produced with pinot noir, chardonnay, and pinot meunier grapes by a process where the bubbles develop in the bottle, it also is the…
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Wine Guy: Denver sommelier offers suggestions pairing lighter Italian reds with summer foods
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Italian wine, arguably more than any other, is made to be drunk with food. Generally, with slightly higher acidity, less noticeable oak, and more of a sense of the earth where the grapes originated, Italian…
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How Palisade became the birthplace of Colorado wine
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Cassidee Shull is a top advocate for Colorado’s wineries. That’s one way she might describe her work when asked by strangers she meets on her travels. They commonly sound surprised. “They’re like, ‘Wait, did you mean breweries?’” Shull says. Yes, Colorado is better known for…
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Your bucket list of Colorado’s best food festivals
The best way to celebrate the best in food that Colorado has to offer? By attending some of the state’s best celebrations, of course. Here are six for your bucket list. Colorado BBQ Challenge: It’s billed as the state’s longest running barbecue competition, backed by well-established pros with Kansas City BBQ Society. After 27 years…
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Wine Guy: Cool bubbles refresh summer heat
During summer’s warm months, white wines provide welcome tonic. Add the refreshing bubbles of sparkling wine and you have the ideal summer drink. And Americans are bubbling over with demand for sparkling wine. Americans are sipping more of the frothy drink than ever before. It might be surprising to some, but Italy is a leading…
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Wine Guy: Burgundy relatives for summer drinking
Chardonnay and its parent pinot noir have long been closely related. No surprise we often find them growing successfully in the same regions, like Burgundy and Oregon. And the cooler coastal climates of California. Pinot noir produces light- to medium-bodied wines notable for aromas and flavors of cherry, plum, earth and brown spice with a…
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Wine Guy: Domaine Bousquet, Argentina’s organic wine leader
Over the past couple of decades, Argentina has established itself as one of the most important wine- producing countries on the planet. Most of the available wines come from the Mendoza region. While malbec has emerged as its signature grape, cabernet sauvignon, cabernet franc, chardonnay and torrontés also are making world-class wines. The wines typically…