Saturday, 23
February 2013
Like the
protagonists in He Said Beer, She Said Wine, my wife has tended towards
wine as her drink of choice. She has humored me over our months together by
going to more brewpubs than wineries (okay, many more). So this year we decided
that we were going to learn more about wine. I agreed and then we put the idea
on the shelf until this Saturday when we were at the homebrew shop getting beer
ingredients. Then my wife told me “we’re going to visit Boulder Creek Winery”. I generally go along with plans like these, so
we found ourselves on an impromptu wine tasting.
There was one guy manning the counter. We did the self-directed tour
first. This was rather well put together. This is a small enough winery that
you can pretty much walk into the production room and see everything. They have
some neat informative boards about the wine-making process. The tasting itself
was $5 a person – and well worth it.
Then we went
and checked out the Bookcliff Winery in Northern Boulder. I had stopped by the
Upslope Winery before but had never gone next door. It was pleasantly busy for
a Saturday, but not too crowded. This tasting was also $5. We liked their
Viognier (just a bit of sweet French oak) and their Riesling enough to go home
with a bottle of each (with the bonus of making the tasting free). We’ll call
it a good start.
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