On the eve of Valentine’s Day (week!?!), the good hosts over at Denver Diatribe brought on Local Winos Jacob Harkins to talk local wine. He totted in four bottles, including the Consensus I, our Bordeaux-ish blend that wine club members helped make. Denver Diatribe is a popular weekly podcast that covers a wide variety of [...]
———- Getting winery owners Jackie and Mike Thompson to pick their all-time favorite Boulder Creek wine is probably as easy as asking them to pick their favorite child. It’s not a question they could answer, but at least with the wine, the couple can take a stab, picking five of the most notable offerings since [...]
———- David Schneider’s restaurant career was firing high on all cylinders. The successful partner in the esteemed Bin 36 (renowned for its wine program) in Chicago also struck culinary gold with a seafood/sushi concept in the chic Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland. He then had a money guy and all-star celebrity chef inked to a Denver location, [...]
Boulder has an intimate food and beverage culture that is brought together by a passion to produce the best meals and drinks using, quite often, ingredients farmed from within driving distance of the city (our wines, included!). There are so many folks doing so many delicious things around here that it can be overwhelming to [...]
Boulder has been called a lot of amazing things in the food world as it’s become an epicenter for everything from farm-to-table concepts to a beer-drinkers heaven. One, perhaps under-the-radar distinction, is its affinity for fine wine. Depending on the year, it’s often home to more Court of Master Sommeliers Master Somms per capita than [...]
When we sat down with Richard Betts, a Master Sommelier who calls Boulder home, we brought him two of our bottles to taste. Here are his notes: Boulder Creek 2010 Viognier ($16): It’s a pretty Viongier. I feel like there’s a tendency in a lot of areas to push Viognier to this extreme ripeness where [...]
Kevin Kidd knows exactly how to spot a fresh fried clam. “It’s gotta have a touch of sand in it,” he says. Needless to say, that’s not a common trait of the clams that make their way all the way to the Rocky Mountains, and his New England-born seafood expertise is at a level often [...]
Next time you crack a bottle of Boulder Creek Winery’s 2010 Viognier, serve it with this fall-inspired Spot Prawn recipe from Salt executive chef Kevin Kidd. Wood grilled fresh Alaskan spot prawns with late autumn arugula and lemon parsley sauce verde Ingredients: 1 lb prawns (Spot Prawns, if available) zest of three lemons 1 head [...]
How do you know Jackie Thompson is a wine geek? Simple: She calls a triplet of 1982 Bordeauxs canoe wines because, well, she and husband Mike traded a canoe for them. Who does that? How about an imaginative couple getting ready to move to Boulder from Vermont in the early 1990s. The canoe couldn’t come, [...]
Check out winemaker Jackie Thompson talking about the award-winning wines of Boulder Creek Winery: