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Craft beer reaches for skies

Trend reflects customers’ preference for specialty brews

DATE: Apr 8, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Starbucks to introduce beer, wine to more cafes

NEW YORK – Starbucks plans to turn more of its cafes into a destination for beer and wine in the evenings. The coffee company says it is looking to expand alcohol sales to “thous...

DATE: Apr 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

TV gets into wine business

Mr. Carson, bring me my wine! And you, too, Mr. Spock. In what is perhaps the strongest evidence yet of wine’s power to unite, fans of upper-crusty period drama “Downton Abbey,” s...

DATE: Mar 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Is that wine past its prime?

So you have had that great California Cab laying down for 10 years, just like the salesman told you to do. The big day arrives – your birthday, say – and you uncork it to blissful...

DATE: Mar 16, 2014 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

In Calif. wine country, follow an olive oil trail

NAPA, Calif. – Come to California wine country taste the – olive oil? Yes, there’s liquid gold hidden among the vines, part of an olive oil boom in recent years. You can tour an ...

DATE: Mar 15, 2014 | CATEGORY: Travel

Nouveau Chile

Young vintners are shaking up a once-prosaic wine scene

DATE: Feb 25, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Valentine wines: From sweet to sassy

Romantic labels all about puns, innuendo and irony

DATE: Feb 4, 2014 | CATEGORY: Food

Local vineyards surviving winter

December’s bitter temperatures whacked wine grapes in Grand Junction growing region, but local vintners say they’ve escaped serious damage. “We did have some cold temperatures in ...

DATE: Feb 1, 2014 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Beaujolais wine is not just ‘Nouveau’

PARIS – The wine world’s best-known party is beginning – the ritual uncorking of Beaujolais Nouveau every November. That’s both a curse and a blessing for the famed French region and its les...

DATE: Nov 26, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food

Book profiles wines of western Colorado

Here’s an idea for a day trip or two or three – visiting some of western Colorado’s more than 40 wineries. Drink It In, a new book put out by the Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction ...

DATE: Oct 30, 2013 | CATEGORY: Culinary Corner

Wineries help raise a toast to veterans on Memorial Day

If you’re looking to raise a glass to veterans this Memorial Day, you might consider filling it with wine that will raise money for them, too. A number of wineries are making the veterans-an...

DATE: May 21, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food

Durango, uncorked

Annual wine fest draws some to learn and reflect, others to party

DATE: May 7, 2013 | CATEGORY: Food

Photos: Thousands take to the streets for ‘No Kings’ march and rally in Durango

Photos: Navajo Trail OpenFriday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Friday was the first day of the Navajo Trail Open at Hillcrest Golf Club

Photos: Durango Fire Protection District opens Station 2

Photos: Hundreds gather to honor fallen Bloomfield Police officer Timothy OntiverosA solemn procession stretched for blocks Monday morning along West Apache Street in Farmington – a display of unity, grief and honor for Bloomfield Police Officer Timothy Ontiveros, 32.About 7 a.m., a large contingent of law enforcement, motorcyclists, friends and grieving family prepared to embark on the motorcade to the 9 a.m. service at the Bloomfield High School football stadium to celebrate the life of the officer.