Article: Grand Valley, Colorado: here comes T. Red.(The New Wine Countries)(wineries)

Check your wine snobbery at the door when you visit Colorado's Grand Valley wineries. The region's anything-but-stuffy attitude shows up right away on the names of some of the wines. Plum Creek Cellars's winemaker, Erik Bruner, is a former geologic engineer, co-owner Sue Phillips a rockhound: They named Plum Creek's Bordeaux-style red Redstone, after the iron-stained basalt near the winery.

The sense of fun prevails even on some wine labels, like those for Carlson Vineyards: A dinosaur raises a wineglass on a bottle of Tyrannosaurus Red (a bow to dig sites nearby); a cheerful rodent wears a grape-leaf crown on a bottle of Prairie Dog White. "Wine is something to ...

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