https://www.80304.com/tags/tasting-room/Recent content in Tasting Room on Boulder, CO 80304.comHugo -- gohugo.ioen80304.comSun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.80304.com/post/bookcliff-vineyards-boulder-80304/Sun, 26 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.80304.com/post/bookcliff-vineyards-boulder-80304/ <p>Set back in an unassuming business park off Lee Hill Road, <a href="https://bookcliffvineyards.com/visit-us/boulder-winery/">Bookcliff Vineyards</a> is the only working winery in the city of Boulder — and it has been quietly turning out award-winning Colorado wine from this 80304 location since 2008. The grapes are grown on the winery's own 40-acre vineyard near Palisade, then trucked over the Continental Divide to be crushed, fermented, aged, and bottled right here in North Boulder.</p> <h2 id="a-boulder-basement-to-a-real-winery">A Boulder Basement to a Real Winery</h2> <p>Bookcliff started as a passion project for John Garlich and Ulla Merz, two longtime Boulder residents who planted their first vines in Palisade in 1995 and made their first wine in a Boulder basement in 1998. As the operation grew, they moved into the current Lee Hill Road space in 2008, building out a working production facility with a tasting room attached. After more than two decades at the helm, ownership has recently passed to three families committed to keeping the operation going. The story is unusual — most Colorado wineries are based on the Western Slope, near the vineyards — but it has made Bookcliff a fixture of the Boulder food and drink scene.</p>