Colorado Wineries & Wine Festivals

Balistreri Vineyards is a family-owned and operated vineyard, winery, and tasting room located about ten minutes from downtown Denver. Balistreri’s wines are produced totally naturally with no preservatives in an approachable, easy-drinking style. The winery combines traditional winemaking methods with modern technology, producing award winning handcrafted wines one barrel at a time. They use grapes fermented in their own yeast, and the wines are unfiltered, unaltered by sulfites, unrefined, and aged in barrels made of American oak. The winery currently produces about 6,000 cases of wine per year. Visitors are invited to visit their cozy tasting room, sample their wines, and take a tour of the wine cellar and winemaking facilities. The tasting room offers seasonally inspired dishes, small plates, and lunch.

1946 E 66th Ave, Denver, CO 80229, Phone: 303-287-5156

Located in Boulder, Colorado, Bookcliff Vineyards produce a large variety of wines that range from robust reds and pleasant whites to sweet dessert wines. All their wines are meticulously crafted using 100 percent grapes grown in their vineyards in Palisade, Colorado. Some of their wines are aged using oak barrels and some using stainless steel. The Bookcliff offers a guided tour of the winery and wine tasting of their wines accompanied by chocolate and cheese. They also offer a virtual tour of the vineyard. The winery also offers a range of events, chef’s dinners, library wine tastings or Fridays and a wine and cheese experience.

1501 Lee Hill Dr UNIT 17, Boulder, CO 80304, Phone: 303-449-7301

Carlson Vineyards is a family-owned vineyard and winery located in Palisade, Colorado in the heart of Colorado's wine country. They are focused on producing premium Colorado wines. Considered pioneers of the Colorado wine industry since 1988, Carlson uses only sun-ripened grapes and fruit grown at the elevation of 4,700 feet on the slopes of the Rocky Mountains. The result is easy drinking, distinctive wine. Visitors to their winery and tasting room have the opportunity to taste all their wines from their award-winning Riesling to the unique T-Red Lemberger and everyone’s favorite sweet Cherry 'n Chocolate. They can relax and enjoy not only the superb wines but also the scenic vistas of the Grand Valley and Colorado River.

461 35 Rd, Palisade, CO 81526, Phone: 970-464-5554

Colorado Cellars Winery is Colorado’s oldest and largest winery and the winery with the most awards. Founded in 1978 and family-owned and operated, Colorado Cellars started its life as Colorado Mountain Vineyards and today includes Rocky Mountain Vineyards and the Orchard Mesa Wine Company. The winery makes wine from the grapes grown in their own vineyard. They also keep bees for honey wine and make and bottle all their wines by hand. They have a fermentation and storage capacity of more than 29,000 gallons and annually produce about 12,000 cases of more than 20 types of wines: port wines, fruit wines, meads, champagne, and varietal grape wines. They also produce dozens of wine-based food items. The original winery is located underground under a hill overlooking the Bookcliff Mountains.

3553 E Rd, Palisade, CO 81526, Phone: 970-464-7921

Colterris Winery is a family-owned estate winery located in Palisade on Colorado’s picturesque Western Slope. Their wines are produced from 100 percent Colorado grapes grown in their estate vineyards in the Grand Valley AVA (American Viticultural Area) where favorable climate, volcanic soils of the Grand Mesa, and the Colorado River waters contribute to the intense flavors and rich color that make Colterris wines so special. Colterris is known for combining traditional methods of trellising vineyards along the Colorado River with modern technology. Colterris has two wine tasting rooms, the Colterris Winery Tasting Room, which is open year round, and Overlook Tasting Room, which is open seasonally.

3907 N River Rd, Palisade, CO 81526, Phone: 970-464-1150

Continental Divide Winery produces all of their wines in a custom state-of-the-art winemaking facility in South Park (Fairplay) at the altitude of10,000 feet, making it the world’s highest altitude winery. Such high altitudes minimize oxygen exposure during crafting and aging wines, which brings forward the true flavors of the fruit. Using a patented winemaking system in an almost zero oxygen closed-cell environment for the wine production further capitalizes on the high altitude location. The winery also uses snow and the extreme temperatures to control fermentation instead of commonly used artificial mechanical cooling. They have two tasting rooms, in Breckenridge and South Park (Fairplay).

505 S Main St Unit A-4, Breckenridge, CO 80424, Phone: 970-771-3443

Creekside Cellars is a Colorado winery located in the heart of the small mountain community of Evergreen, about 30 minutes from Denver. The winery opened its doors to the public in 2000 and in 2002 planted Vinelands, their own vineyard in Palisade, Colorado. Creekside Cellars is also an Italian café with beautiful outdoor deck overlooking Bear Creek. The café offers excellent wine from Creekside’s own winery and superb locally sourced food. It is a popular destination for a pleasant relaxed lunch of a Panini sandwich, freshly baked Foccacia and Ciabatta, or an antipasto platter, all perfectly paired with Creekside’s award-winning wines.

28036 CO-74, Evergreen, CO 80439, Phone: 303-674-5460

D'Vine Wine Manitou Springs is a small boutique winery located in the renovated historic Spa Building in downtown Manitou Springs. The winery imports the highest quality grapes from different vine growing regions and uses them to handcraft, ferment, and blend them to create about 20 different kinds of wine on their premises. The charming wine tasting room attached to the winery is a great spot to enjoy some great wines with crackers, cheese, or chocolate. The winery offers their clients the ability to be part of making their own wine, starting with wine tasting to find out the kind of wine they like, wine-blending, and even creating personalized labels for bottles. The winery staff guides guests through the whole process. It can be fun and exciting activity for individuals and corporate parties.

934 Manitou Ave Suite 108, Manitou Springs, CO 80829, Phone: 719-685-1030

Four Leaves Winery is a boutique winery located in downtown Durango across the street from the historic Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Railroad station. The winery uses grapes imported from all over the world, ferments them, blends them, and bottles them on their premises. Guests are invited to visit their tasting room attached to the winery. The charming, cozy environment is great for learning about wines, purchasing them by the glass or the bottle, finding a perfect gift for wine-loving friends and family, or even making their own perfect blend with the help of the winery’s experts. They can even help design a custom labels for their wine.

528 Main Ave, Durango, CO 81301, Phone: 970-403-8182