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Carboy Winery, the fast-growing wine business founded on the Front Range, is expanding to its fourth location in the state after purchasing Mount Garfield Estate in Palisade. The five-year old business began with a single location in Littleton and has since expanded to locations in Denver and Breckenridge, said Kevin Webber, one of the winery’s managing partners. The company began by bringing in wine pressed from out-of-state grapes, but has since invested in making wine with Colorado-grow...

The drumbeat for a great vintage has been mastered in Bordeaux, and sometimes the Bordelaise even get it right.

It’s not quite springtime in Napa Valley, but the grapevines in the Carneros appellation don’t seem to know that. A number of vineyards in the region, one of the southernmost in Napa Valley, have experienced the onset of bud break, Hyde Vineyards General Manager Chris Hyde confirmed in a press release from the Napa Valley Grapegrowers. In Hyde Vineyards’ case, Hyde said in an interview, bud break began in a block of Pinot Noir near the winery late last week. “We might have a...

After more than two years of trying, Save the Family Farms has convinced Napa County to take up the issue of micro-wineries, which amount to a more mom-and-pop approach to the wine world. The county will consider allowing farms making small amounts of wines to host tastings without building a winery, perhaps at a table overlooking a vineyard. A proposed law could be ready by August. Save the Family Farms has worked with elected officials and the wine industry to lay the groundwork for a possibl...

Gallo Vineyards has sued Long Meadow Ranch Wine Estates over the St. Helena-based producer’s alleged inability to fulfill its end of a two-year grape contract, according to a complaint filed at the end of January in Napa County Superior Court. This lawsuit marks the second time Gallo Vineyards, a subsidiary of the world’s largest winery E & J Gallo Winery, has taken legal action against Long Meadow Ranch Wine Estates. It previously sued the winery in September, Wine Business reported,...

My daughter Jenny and I went forth into Carneros last weekend to spend a couple of hours amid objects that can’t help but tickle your brain. I speak of the outdoor sculptures at the di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art — a cluster of whimsy amid a rolling landscape dominated by wine grapes. Not crazy about “modern” sculpture? I understand. The world has enough steel beams welded helter skelter that pass for art. But still, di Rosa beckoned. Support local news coverage and the...

The state legislature honors Larkmead Vineyards for its contributions during its 125-year history.