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Article: A stately competition; It's Colorado vs. California as the state' wine get put to the (taste) test.(wine food & travel)(Competition between Colorado wines vs. California wines)
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- ColoradoBiz
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- June 1, 2008
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Wine, like no other drink, tells a story of time and place.
In Colorado, it's a story that's still being written. Or at least revised and proofread carefully.
"Untested and unproven. That's probably the valid perception of Colorado wine," says Ken Theobald, a Denver wine distributor who represents dozens of winemakers, including a few from Colorado, to restaurants and retailers. "We're not really known as a fine wine-growing region."
In part, that's because the state is just getting started, at least according to wine time, says the longtime Colorado resident and general manager of Classic Wines. Colorado had almost no wine industry to speak of ...