Designing a Colorado jug wine label
By now you’ve heard about the coolest thing to happen to Colorado wine since … ever. Yup, we’ve launched a jug wine program, and are excited to see 5280 magazine write all about it. This new offering is geared at doing two things: Making jug wine cool again and giving those in the area an easy way to fill up a liter of wine for next to nothing. To achieve this, we figured the look would have to be almost as important as the actual juice in the bottle. Almost. So we worked with Local...
Read MoreTurning Highland Tap & Burger into a wine bar (sorta)
This first thing you’ll notice about Highland Tap & Burger (2219 W. 32nd Ave., Denver) is that it is not, in fact, a wine bar. Perhaps it’s the name, the endless flatscreens showcasing the Broncos, Nuggets or Avs (and Red Sox) or the 20 beers on tap that gives this little factoid away. That hasn’t stopped co-owner Katie O’Shea from becoming quite the wine aficionado. In fact, she’s an executive sommelier and has put together a small but thoughtful wine list (that usually includes a...
Read MoreWine and Bikes at Amendment XXI in LoHi
Leo Bortolotto learned a thing or two about life while spending the better part of seven years living throughout Italy (with a two-year stop in Amsterdam). It led him to opening a nifty wine shop in LoHi with a bike rack out front. During his blissful European stay, he figured out just how he wanted to live life. It needed to include an urban existence reliant on bicycles, public transit, and of course food and wine. Tuscany will do that to a person. So it shouldn’t surprise that shortly after his...
Read MoreUntapping a Wild Wine List at Linger
When Sian Nagan spent a few months in New Zealand in 2010, she toured the country with little more than a $5 tent, a pair of hiking boots and a bus pass. Sure, she had a few contacts at some of the famed wineries down there and probably ate some pretty darn good food, but her travels were more rugged than, say, a Dom brunch. “Part of it was adventure, climbing volcanoes, swimming with dolphins. I sky dived, too. Bad ass,” she recalls. Not exactly the stuffy attitude you might expect to hear from a...
Read MoreNot Your Mom’s Jug Wine
There are two schools of thought when it comes to jug wine. One side simply thinks it’s garbage, which comes from five decades of U.S. wineries putting the cheap stuff in jugs. The other, however, understands its rustic roots tableside in Italy and potential for value and quality. So it’s time to forget about the wine synonymous with jugs, Carlo Rossi, and get some good wine in a large format.We’re getting ready to unveil our new jug wine program. It’s our way of becoming an even bigger part of...
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