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Colorado wine gets its own week
Drink up! Colorado Wine Week is underway, with nightly events continue through the week, culminating Saturday with the Colorado Urban Winefest in the sculpture park at the Denver Center for the Performing Arts from noon to 6 p.m.
The Urban Winefest features 42 wineries and about 45 restaurants and wine shops. . William Porter, blogs.denverpost.com/food
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Cheers to Flagstaff House’s new wine director
has hired Melanie Kaman as its new wine director. She’ll oversee a 12,000-bottle cellar, one that has won the Wine Spectator Grand Award every year since 1983.
“I couldn’t be more thrilled,” says Kaman, who adds that she’s already at work expanding the restaurant’s broad selection of burgundy, bordeaux and Italian selections at the restaurant, one of the state’s true special-occasion dining rooms.
Kaman, who grew up in a family of wine collectors, is an industry veteran, having launched her own catering company in high school. Armed with a culinary degree from Johnston & Wales in Rhode Island, she worked at Spago and Postrio in Las Vegas, and opened Denver’s Mirepoix as a wine director.
She is also busy bolstering the cocktail program at the restaurant, which overlooks Boulder at 1138 Flagstaff Road. William Porter, blogs.denverpost.com/food
