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Wine Conference to Take Place in Maryland

November 16, 2012 – 4:22 pm

DrinkLocalWine (DLW) announced today that Baltimore, Maryland will be the site of its fifth annual conference. The focus on Maryland wine occurs less than two years after the state permitted direct shipping and three years after the number of wineries in Maryland nearly doubled. The DLW conference takes place April 12th to the 14th in […]

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Thanksgiving Farm Winery: A Poster Child for the Drink Local Wine Community

November 14, 2012 – 12:07 am

Thanksgiving Farm winery could be the poster child for the Drink Local Wine community.

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“Local Food, Local Wine, and Why They Don’t Like Each Other”

April 29, 2012 – 4:02 am

This passionate 50-minute presentation dwelt on what consumers are looking for in terms of local food and local wine.

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Consumer Perception of Colorado and Regional Wine

April 28, 2012 – 12:47 pm

The third Drink Local Wine session was led by Richard Mauro, Colorado Springs Gazette. The three panelists included Chris Anthony, professional skier; Jennifer Broome, Morning Meteorologist KDVR-TV and host of “Swept Away with Jennifer Broome”; and Jay Leeuwenberg, former NFL player. Richard Mauro began the session on consumer perceptions. He introduced the panel of wine […]

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Colorado’s Terroir and the Challenges of High Altitude

April 28, 2012 – 11:04 am

The first seminar focused on Colorado’s Terroir and the Challenges of High Altitude.  Richard Leahy, national wine consultant, moderated the session that included a panel with Horst Caspari, Professor & State Viticulturist, Colorado State University; Stephen Menke, PhD, Associate Professor of Enology, Colorado State University; and Bruce Talbott, Vice President, Talbott Farms. Horst Caspari gave […]

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Drink Local Wine Conference Kicks off with Media Welcome Dinner

April 27, 2012 – 11:38 pm

The 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference opened on Friday evening with a media welcome dinner at the Governor’s Residence at the Boettcher Mansion. Media, wine growers, winemakers and state officials mingled as we drank a Bookcliff Vineyards 2010 Muscat Blanc and/or a Cottonwood Cellars 2008 Lemberger. We had the Muscat Blanc and paired it with […]

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Pre-Drink Local Wine Conference Winery Visits

April 27, 2012 – 9:25 am

We flew to Denver a couple of days ago to visit some of the wineries south of the city prior to the start of the Drink Local Wine Conference. Later today we will check into the Denver Sheraton and register for the DLW Conference. On Wednesday we visited Spero Winery and The Infinite Monkey Theorem […]

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An Ultimate Drink Local Experience

April 24, 2012 – 6:07 am

With the Drink Local Wine Conference coming up soon I thought about what may be the ultimate drink local wine experience. This experience would be different for everyone. For me, the ultimate drink local wine experience would be a wine made from grapes in my backyard vineyard, just a few feet away from our kitchen. […]

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Prepping for the Drink Local Wine Conference

April 23, 2012 – 5:40 am

Prepping for the Drink Local Wine Conference in Denver on Saturday. So exactly how does one prepare for a conference? Well, I looked at several hundred vineyard photos that I took a few years back while visiting wineries and vineyards in Colorado. Then another way to set your mind is to drink wine from the […]

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Colorado High Altitude Vineyard Scenes

April 21, 2012 – 8:13 pm

The 2012 Drink Local Wine Conference takes place in Denver, Colorado. Many of Colorado’s vineyards are growing in altitudes between 4000′ and 7000′. These photos are from two previous visits to vineyards and wineries in the breath taking beautiful state of Colorado. The Colorado Rivers runs past the vineyards at Canyon Wind Cellars in Georgetown, Colorado. […]

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