Explore the Pours
“There has been a paradigm shift in what the consumer is seeking these days. Guests with adventurous palates visit our tasting rooms, ready and willing to be educated on new varieties and production techniques. It’s gratifying to watch someone new to the Colorado wine experience have an ah-ha moment. With a smile, they say, ‘Wait, this is Colorado wine?!’”
—Ty Wharton, head winemaker at Carboy Winery
This is where the magic happens,” says Kevin Webber as he leads me through Carboy Winery’s Littleton crush pad. I’m here for a tasting led by Carboy’s head winemaker,
Tyzok Wharton, who along with Webber and Craig Jones cofounded the Colorado winery brand in 2015 and has since helped put the state’s wines on the global map of emerging wine regions to watch. From the start, they’ve had a mission to bring great Colorado wines to consumers while leaving the pretense at the door.
Inspired by a kistchy Italian winery famed for servicing clients by refilling their wine carboy jugs via filling station pumps, Carboy employs a similar method at its primary flagship location off of Santa