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Colorado Wineries – Tastings & Vineyard Tours

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Vineyards are located around the state, with most of them concentrated on the Western Slope. Several local wine makers offer tastings and tours of their local vineyards. Most welcome guests year round, some are seasonal. Read our wine blog.

Winery Tours and Tastings in Colorado

Northern California isn’t the only place in America known for great wine anymore. Thanks to Coloradoan’s passion for quality, wine here is award winning. You can find a variety of styles, with most of the local grapes grown on the Western Slope.

Bookcliff Vineyards Palisade
BookCliff Vineyards
Boulder
Grande River Vineyards
Grande River Vineyards
Palisade
Infinite Monkey Theorem Denver
Infinite Monkey Theorem
Denver
Meadery of the Rockies Paliasade
Meadery of the Rockies
Palisade
Redstone Meadery Boulder
Redstone Meadery
Boulder
Saint Kathryn Cellars Palisade
St Kathryn & Talon
Palisade
Stone Cottage Cellars Paonia
Stone Cottage Cellars
Paonia
Stoney Mesa Winery Cedaredge
Stoney Mesa Winery
Cedaredge

Wine Tastings With No Tours in Colorado

There are dozens and dozens of wineries, with more opening each year. Many import their grapes from Colorado and beyond. Most welcome guests all year for tastings. And while you may get a look behind the scenes if you ask, the following do not have scheduled tours.

Augustina's Winery Nederland
Augustina’s Winery
Nederland
Azura Cellars Galley Winery Paonia
Azura Cellars
Paonia
Black Bridge Winery Paonia
Black Bridge Winery
Paonia
Debeque Canyon Winery
Debeque Canyon Winery
Palisade
Fox Fire Farms
Fox Fire Farms
Ignacio
Settembre Cellars Boulder
Settembre Cellars
Boulder

Guide to Wine Tastings and Vineyard Tours in Colorado

Bookcliff VIneyards Palisade Colorado

Bookcliff’s vineyards in Palisade.

Today there are over one hundred wineries across the state, situated everywhere from the Front Range and Western Slope, to mountain towns such as Steamboat Springs and Bailey. The Colorado Wine Industry Development Board states:

Colorado’s Rocky Mountains are blessed with warm days, cool nights and low humidity – perfect conditions for cultivating wine grapes with the complex character and chemistry needed to produce award-winning wines.

Ask any knowledgable Coloradoan where the best wine comes from, and they’ll tell you the Western Slope. Palisade is the unofficial capital of wine in Colorado, with vineyard after vineyard of tasty grapes perfect for wine making. There are vineyards though dotted across the state, with a lot wineries importing their grapes from elsewhere in Colorado and beyond.

Wine got started on the Western Slope more than 100 years ago when the first vineyards were planted. However, during Prohibition in the 1920s, vineyards were replaced with fruit orchids. In the last few decades, vineyards have once again reclaimed their soil on land around Palisade, as well as across Colorado. Winemaking is alive and well in the Rocky Mountains!

Elevations on the Western Slope range from 4,500 to 6,000 feet, making the vineyards some of the highest on earth. The dry climate helps keep plant disease low, the high elevation and 300+ sunny days gives the grapes great flavor and complexion, and the cool nighttime temperature encourages acid retention, crucial to the best winemaking.

Guided wine tours

Several companies offer guided tours of Colorado wine country. Sit back and relax as you’re shuttled safely around the vineyards. Enjoy wine tastings around Palisade with your friends and family.

American Spirit Shuttle offers winery tours in the Grand and North Fork river, and Surface Creek valleys of Western Colorado. They also give Agricultural and Brewilery™ tours, as well as trips to national parks, monuments, and areas of Eastern Utah.

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