Family-run since 1988 and totally unfussy. Come for the award-winning Riesling and Gewürztraminer, stay in the backyard on the Palisade fruit-and-wine byway.

A family-owned Palisade winery focused on sustainability and minimal intervention, with a tasting room patio where dogs are welcome and the cliffs as backdrop.

Part of a destination estate in Palisade with a demonstration vineyard to walk and a hotel next door, focused on Bordeaux and Rhone-style wines.

Colorado's only port house, making ruby and white dessert ports poured in a Tuscan-style tasting room.

An Orchard Mesa family vineyard whose wines carry Italian-American family stories, poured in a Prohibition-era tasting room in Grand Junction.

A Palisade vineyard hosting live music, food trucks and wine on the green, where concert seatings are booked ahead.

An industrial-warehouse winery in Palisade with a blending lab where visitors craft their own bottle, plus tours from grape to glass.

An estate-grown winery at the base of Mt. Garfield near Palisade, making traditional dry wines with a local twist and an emphasis on the surrounding view.

Housed in a former peach packing warehouse in downtown Palisade, this winery pairs estate-to-bottle wines with a big shaded patio and Grand Mesa views.

A French-style chateau at the foot of Colorado National Monument. Taste Riesling and Cabernet, then stay the night and wake up to red-rock views.

A Palisade estate with a Victorian-style tasting room, rose garden and event pavilion, known for private tastings, wine dinners and a Friday fire pit series.

A Grand Junction winery making wines only from Colorado grapes, with a tasting room that overlooks its own vineyard.