| Announcing! One of the Best Kept Secrets
| |
| | is going to take?" "Have you seen me
|
| in the World of Wine...Do you remember
| |
| | struggle to get my grapes to grow under
|
| hearing that the best wines are now
| |
| | the Colorado Front Range
|
| coming from California?Forget everything
| |
| | conditions?"As we came down in altitude,
|
| you've heard about California wine and
| |
| | entering the Western Slope fruit growing
|
| listen, on my
| |
| | area,
|
| summer vacation I discovered one of the
| |
| | I began to understand her desire to own
|
| best wine growing areas in the
| |
| | a vineyard and expand it to support
|
| United States. And it's not on the West
| |
| | a small winery.This area is truely a
|
| Coast.As it happens, my daughter asked me
| |
| | fruit growing delight. Vineyards and
|
| to take a trip with her to look at a
| |
| | orchards flowing
|
| piece of property on the Western Slope
| |
| | over the mesas of the Colorado Western
|
| of Colorado that she and her husband
| |
| | Slope region. Cherries, peaches,
|
| were interested in. She needed my
| |
| | apples, and of course grapes.Unlike the
|
| expertise with evaluating the condition
| |
| | eastern side of Colorado, the Western
|
| of
| |
| | Slope has a climate that is
|
| the business that accompanied the house
| |
| | conducive to growing all sorts of fruit
|
| and land."Just what is this business?" I
| |
| | crops. The noble European grape, V.
|
| asked her. She replied that it was a
| |
| | vinifera, is well adapted to this fruit
|
| vineyard. I had to think of that for a
| |
| | growing region.Now listen closely! The
|
| moment. I have my college degree in
| |
| | wines I found being made in the small
|
| horticulture and a vineyard has always
| |
| | family
|
| been my dream. But I would have
| |
| | wineries of the Colorado Western Slope
|
| never expected this of my daughter.She
| |
| | turned out to be pure gems! Why?
|
| knew that I have planted grapes wherever
| |
| | Because of the warm days and cool nights
|
| I've lived. A few grapevines
| |
| | of this region. This climate is
|
| in the backyard, one or two growing up
| |
| | perfect for growing grapes and making
|
| the side of the house, or a couple
| |
| | award winning wines.There are also two
|
| hundred to experiment with when I've had
| |
| | American Viticulture Areas: the Grand
|
| the land to do it.Now, I was being told
| |
| | Valley AVA and the
|
| that she wanted to live my dream come
| |
| | West Elks AVA along the Colorado Western
|
| true. I
| |
| | Slope. Each producing distinctive
|
| questioned her as we drove across the
| |
| | wines because of their slightly
|
| Rocky Mountains towards her new
| |
| | different climatic conditions.
|
| dream.Things like, "Do you know what this
| |
| |
|
