There's a vineyard in Denver?! Welcome to Balistreri Vineyard & Winery!
Got-Moxie interviews Julie Balistreri of Balistreri Vineyards in Denver, Colorado, for the Denver issue of Got-Moxie Travel Magazine. got-moxie.com and balistreriwine.com
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Balistreri Vineyards Harvest Party 2010.mov
Balistreri Vineyards. Balistreri Vineyards make traditional handcrafted wines. The 8th Annual Balistreri Vineyards Harvest Party 2010 is a way to celebrate the end of the growing season and the start of the wine making process. The Harvest Party is held at the Balistreri Winery located at 1946 East 66th Avenue in Denver, CO. The winery is just a few miles north of downtown Denver. For the adults the Harvest Party has wine tasting along with being able to purchase wines by the glass, bottle and case. The Children's Grape Stomping is for the kids. The kids get to stomp the Merlot grapes and we use that juice to create the Little Feet Merlot. A portion of the proceeds from the presale of the Little Feet Merlot wine is donated to the Children's Hospital. Ticket price includes a commemorative glass & snack platter, wine tasting samples (please drink responsibly) with food for all incliding; antipasti, artisan cheeses, wood fired pizzas, pig roast with rolls, three types of sauces, green beans, pasta salad and more, desserts of cheese cake, brownies and classic Italian cookies thin and crispy, and the Children's Grape Stomping. Music starts the day with a classical quartet playing. Later a delightful accordion performance fills the air. I felt like I was swept away to a traditional harvest party, deep in an Italian country village. Later in the afternoon a hot band the gets folks up and dancing. The cost of the tickets are $57.67 each (with tax) or $60.00 plus tax at the front gate. Space is limited so please order your tickets in advance. Children under 12 are free with a paid adult ticket.
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Bonacquisti Wine Company...
We are Denver's Urban Winery located in a funky industrial condo a few doors down from Quiznos. There are no vineyards located off I-70 and Pecos and there ain't gonna be! We make wine with Colorado grown grapes from Palisade and we also use select grapes from outside the state when Colorado won't oblige us. We are a small production winery dedicated to making good wine for all to enjoy. Wine for the people.
Our labels are unique and are part of the philosophy of making wine in the city: local wine, local art. Daniel Luna is a local artist we commissioned to take our wine concepts and familial stories and put them on canvas. If you're familiar with Daniel's work then you know it is vibrant, distinctive and cosmic. The perfect combination to tell the story of the wines they represent; Bella Risa, Vinny No Neck and Delagua, CO.
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Keith Miller
Bryan Criswell
USS Colorado christened 2016
USS Colorado christened 2016 - GROTON, CONN. (AP) - Annie Mabus smashed a bottle of sparkling wine from a Denver vineyard against the Navy's newest attack submarine Saturday, christening it the Colorado as the vessel prepares to join a fleet expected to number more than 300 ships by 2019.
The 377-foot-long submarine will become the USS Colorado when it is commissioned as the 15th in the Virginia class of attack submarines, each costing $2.7 billion. The vessels are equipped to carry out warfare against submarines and surface ships, as well as conduct surveillance and deliver Special Operations troops.
Mabus joined her father, Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus, and others for the ceremony at Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. The bottle of Balistreri Vineyards wine had been chilled before the ceremony in a bucket of water from the Colorado River.
Secretary Mabus said the christening was his last since Democratic President Barack Obama picked him to lead the Navy in 2009.
I could not have picked a better boat, a better place, a better person to celebrate this final christening, he said during the ceremony, which also included speeches from political leaders from Connecticut and neighboring Rhode Island, where Electric Boat does some of its shipbuilding work.
The submarines are being built in a partnership between Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia. Construction of the Colorado began in March 2012. Its commanding officer - Cmdr. Ken Franklin, a native of Plant City, Florida - has been serving on submarines since 1991.
The Colorado is the fourth U.S. Navy ship to be named for the state. The first was a three-masted frigate launched at Norfolk Navy Yard in 1856. The most recent was a 1923-commissioned battleship that won seven battle stars during World War II.
After the war, she was assigned to magic carpet duty and brought more than 6,000 veterans home to their families, Mabus said.
He said the crew of the new submarine will be the rightful heirs to the sailors who crewed the USS Colorado in World War II.
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Colorado Experience:The Smaldones, Family of Crime
Colorado Experience examines one of the lesser-known
chapters in American organized crime: the story of the Smaldones, an Italian-American crime family that operated out of Denver. Brothers Clyde and Eugene Smaldone took control of Denver’s underworld in 1933, after then-crime boss Joe Roma’s
body was found riddled with bullets in his home. They specialized in bootlegging during the years of prohibition and, later, bookmaking and gambling. To some, they were family men who provided food to poor members of their community; to others, they were ruthless criminals.Utilizing audio interviews with Clyde Smaldone himself, Colorado Experience sheds lights on the man who led Denver’s infamous organized crime syndicate.