Denver Wineries & Tasting Rooms

Bigsby's Folly Craft Winery

The swankiness of the Roaring Twenties meets modern-industrial chic at Bigsby’s Folly Craft Winery, a tasting room and full-scale winery that's located in RiNo. Come and sample red, white and rosé wines — made from carefully sourced California, Oregon and Colorado grapes — and enjoy exquisite food pairings that will have you lingering in this stylish space for quite some time. This eco-friendly operation serves wine on tap by the glass (or growler, if you want to take some home) and re-purposes any wine bottles it uses into candles. Play winemaker for a day by signing up for one of Bigsby’s Folly’s private blending sessions.

Balistreri Vineyards

A vineyard in the middle of Denver? Heck yes. Balistreri is a true urban winery. What started as a flower farm in 1964 is now a grape-growing oasis in the middle of town, complete with a tasting room and gift shop. Since the Balistreri family first planted grapes in 1998, they've been making wines here in the Italian tradition. The award-winning wines at Balistreri Vineyards include Syrah, Merlot, Cabernet Sauvignon, Red Zinfandel, Port and Colorado cherry wines. Whites include Riesling, Viognier and Muscat. Wines are made from 98% Colorado grapes, including some grown on-site. Balistreri does not add sulfites to its wines and does not filter them, making them a little hazy sometimes. But their numerous awards show taste more than makes up for clarity. All Balistreri wines are handcrafted a barrel at a time, and the grapes are fermented in their own yeast and aged in American oak barrels.

Redstone Meadery

Tucked into a strip mall on the edge of Boulder, Redstone Meadery offers a taste of something different. Take a tour and find out how mead — wine made from honey — is produced. If you've only tasted very sweet meads, your palate is in for a surprise. There are sparkling meads, fruity meads and even some fairly dry ones. The sparkling nectars are made with fruits (think black raspberries, mango and passion fruit) and Colorado honey, and the meadery's Sunshine Nectar makes a killer mimosa for Sunday brunch. Redstone Meadery is the second-largest meadery in the United States and the largest craft meadery (akin to a microbrewery) in the nation.

Carboy Winery

Join Carboy Winery in Denver or Littleton for a one-of-a-kind Colorado wine-tasting experience. Since 2016, their award-winning wines have helped lift the Colorado wine industry into prominence as a wine region ripe with possibilities. Through ambitious winemaking and innovation with new varietals, sparkling wines and wine seltzers, they have helped turn a state known for its beer into one that creates exciting and adventurous wines. Their wines reflect the extraordinary terroir and unmistakable typicity of Colorado's Grand Valley and Washington's Horse Heaven Hills AVA's. Plus, they have daily tastings and happy hours. 

Deep Roots Winery & Bistro

This family winery and bistro pairs handcrafted wines with curated menu items like baked brie, panini and decadent desserts. Stop in to the LoDo tasting room for an extended happy hour on "Wine Down Wednesdays." Or sign up for one of Deep Roots' monthly Wine Education Nights to learn more about the history of vino, how it's made and how to appreciate it on an even higher level. 

Attimo Wine

Get a taste of Italy right here in the Mile High City. Attimo, which means "moment" in Italian, is a working urban winery aging, blending and bottling wines from Northern Italy. While you're sampling the wine, try out the gourmet bar snack menu. And to stimulate the mind, in addition to taste buds, take a tour of the winery and discover Attimo's story. 

Bonacquisti Wine Company

Situated in northwest Denver's Sunnyside neighborhood, Bonacquisti has a tasting room downstairs, a party room upstairs and its very own wine radio station. That's what happens when one of your owners, Paul Bonacquisti, is a former deejay. His wines, which include Pinot Grigio, Montepulciano, Moscato, Chardonnay and Sangiovese, are made from 75% Colorado-grown grapes. Besides barrel aging and bottling local Colorado wines, Bonacquisti hosts several events (check the calendar for what's on tap this week) and showcases the work of local artists on its walls.  

Augustina's Winery

Augustina's produces the most whimsical of Colorado wines. There's a WineChick Red (a Shiraz blend), a WineChick White (a Colorado-grown Riesling) and many others as the spirit moves the winemaker. Augustina's wines are intended to be paired with activities more than food — thus the Boulder Backpacking Wine (a dry red) and the Harvest Gold, "a wine for sitting on the porch with a friend." Labels, set on the bottles in a diamond shape, feature original art. The entire operation is the brainchild of owner, winemaker, bottler and labeler Marianne "Gussie" Walter. She even drives over to the Western Slope to fetch the grapes herself. Once hidden away in an industrial park on the edge of Boulder, Augustina's now resides in Nederland. You also might find Gussie, a former geologist and chemist, vending her wines at Denver-area farmers' markets and art galleries.

Blanchard Family Wines

With a headquarters in Sonoma County, Calif., you know this local winery means business. Swing by and enjoy the world-class wine, paired with Colorado charcuterie, cheese and desserts in the beautiful Dairy Block development. As the name implies, it's a family-owned business where they do unique, low-production varieties. You can have a genuine taste of Sonoma conveniently in downtown Denver. 

Bookcliff Vineyards

Palisade-based BookCliff Vineyards brings their wines east to their north Boulder tasting room. While not quite as scenic as their 37-acre Palisade vineyard, where they grow 14 different types of grapes, you can still taste all their delicious, Colorado-grown wines.  It's the place to come to learn about wine and discover your next favorite bottle. During the year, BookCliff offers a lot of fun events, including chef dinners, barrel tastings, release parties and chocolate-and-wine pairing flights on Valentine's Day.

Creekside Cellars

Plan to hit this winery in downtown Evergreen around lunchtime and sample some superb Italian deli specialties that include an antipasto platter, a cheese board or panini sandwiches made with fresh focaccia bread. If the weather is nice, enjoy your feast on the deck overlooking Bear Creek, which goes rushing right by. After lunch, taste an award-winning Creekside Cellars Chardonnay, Viognier, Riesling, Cabernet Franc or Sauvignon, Merlot or Syrah. Also check out the Vintage Port and the Moscato d'Amburgo, a Black Muscat. Small private tours can also be arranged.

Turquoise Mesa Winery

Turquoise Mesa prides itself on wines made only from Colorado grapes. A Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah, Viognier and both white and red blends are offered in the tasting room, which recently moved from a Broomfield office park into a new Denver facility. Owners Tom and Mary Joan Bueb let you in on the smooth, velvety wines low in tannins on weekends, or tastings can be arranged by appointment. The winery also does barrel tastings for small groups of up to 25 or 30 people. 

Spero Winery

It’s all in the family at Spero, where winemaker Clyde Spero learned the art from his Italian father. After making vino for the family, he started sharing the wine love in 1999, and today he uses grapes from the Western Slope, Pueblo and a cousin’s vineyard in Lodi, Calif. Taste Clyde’s creations (for free!) on Saturdays from 1–5 p.m., when you can sample Spero’s roster of whites, reds and dessert wines.