LOCATING OUR WINERY IN THE CITY MEANS WE CAN FOCUS ON WHAT MATTERS: THE WINE AND THE PEOPLE THAT DRINK IT.

Ask any winemaker “What makes great wine?” – odds are their answer will be “Great fruit.”  Through his background in Colorado winemaking, our winemaker Ben Parsons has cultivated close relationships with some of the best vineyards and vineyard managers in Colorado. Ben works closely with a few hand-picked vineyards during the growing season to monitor the fruit – he makes his decisions about the upcoming vintage based on the grapes and vineyards that are showing the best characteristics for our wines.

When these grapes are ready, we drive out to the vineyards in the early (and we mean eeeeeeaaaaarly) morning hours to pick up that day’s harvest. Once it’s at the winery, we press and prepare for fermentation for the day’s grapes. Then we do it all again the next day.

Though it sounds exhausting (it is), it’s our opportunity to reach out to the community and bring people a little closer to the wines they drink. During harvest, we work side-by-side with volunteers from the community – sommeliers, restaurant owners, and a few hardcore fans – in order to make the wines we’ll all be enjoying in the next year or two.

This tradition of community harvest all began out of necessity back in 2008 when we didn’t have a staff to help out – but as we’ve grown, it’s something that we continue to do each fall. It’s what makes us who we are.