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Better Red Than Dead: Winemaker Kevin Doyle Pours His Soul Into His Work
"If you taste a little salt in the wine, that's the sweat dripping off my brow," Kevin Doyle says of the wines he makes at his Woody Creek Cellars. As a joke, the line only goes so far. There's too much truth to it. Doyle makes his wines the old-fashioned way — no stainless steel tanks, no filters or chemicals at all — so there's a far greater chance that a drinker will taste Doyle's sweat in the wine than a metallic or chemical sensation. And the effort he puts into his wine is bound to cause perspiration. Doyle is essentially a one-man operation: he hustles around the Western Slope making deals for grapes; he self-distributes, driving from Boulder restaurants to Telluride liquor shops to the Aspen Saturday Market to get his bottles into the hands of consumers.
By Stewart Oksenhorn for The Aspen Times, June 17, 2010.
Apple Shed Becomes Tasting Room
The AppleShed Arts Complex and Gallery, located at 250 S. Grand Mesa Drive in Cedaredge, has joined the county's long list of wine tasting rooms. According to owner Connie Williams, the AppleShed became the "official" local tasting room for winemaker Kevin Doyle's Wood Creek Cellars in early April. Doyle's award winning wines are produced in an old apple packing shed in Orchard City. According to the Woody Creek Cellars web site, the wines are made with primitive equipment using no chemicals, handpicked grapes, punched down, cold masseration and gravity flow. Wood Creek Cellars focuses on small lot production and high quality.
By Bob Borchardt for The Aspen Times, May 05, 2010.
Colorado Winery Review: Woody Creek Cellars
When you first meet Kevin Doyle, Vintner and Founder of Woody Creek Cellars, you know he has a story to tell. A quick smile and friendly greeting is just the start of discovering this wonderful Old World-style winery that produces handcrafted Artisan wines. Founded in 2000 as a one-man operation, Woody Creek Cellars produces vintages from the grape varietals found on the Western Slope of Colorado.
By G. Kunkel for Associated Content, November 30, 2009.
Weinberg s Wine Notes #101 — Colorado Wine Redux
Another choice treat, this time with a slice of sage-and-pancetta-roasted veal, was the Woody Creek Cellars Tempranillo, a dill, ash, boysenberry and green pea masterpiece that evoked memories of Spain with every bite and sip.
By Weinberg for Unfiltered, Unfined, 2009.
Woody Creek's Wine Savant
For the second consecutive year, Kevin Doyle's Woody Creek Cellars wines have garnered numerous medals in Colorado state wine competitions, and in late July he accomplished what he says no other Colorado wine has done before him: Two of his wines — the 2004 Merlot and the nonvintage unfiltered Chardonnay — received 88-point scores from Wine Spectator Magazine's editor-at-large Harvey Steiman on his blog at winespectator.com. Steiman also put Doyle's 2005 Tempranillo at 86 points. Doyle says the previous high for a Colorado wine was 84.
By Michael Miracle for Mountain Homestyle Tastes & Trends, Holiday 2007/2008.
Local Cellar: Woody Creek Vintner Making Award-Winning Wines
(www.aspendailynews.com/section/entertainment)
After walking up a set of rickety steps past large bins full of shriveled, drained grapes with flies hovering above like clouds floating on a valley floor, two men have all of their attention on a barrel that's half the size of a small car. One of the men is Woody Creek Cellars owner Kevin Doyle, and the other is Scott Brown, his current apprentice. A ruby fluid with opaque undertones flows from the bottom.
By Christine Benedetti for Time Out: Lifestyle. Arts. Entertainment., October 2–8, 2007.
Woody Creek Wines Hit the Big Time
(www.telluridewatch.com/articles/2007/10/03/news/doc470169fe8ac8c695440716.txt)
By Marta Tarbell for The Telluride Watch, October 3, 2007.
He's Found the Recipe for Wine: Vintner Uses Old World Methods in His Craft
(www.postindependent.com/article/20070730/AE/107300041)
By April E. Clark for The Post Independent, July 30, 2007.
Local Wine. 88 points. 88 points. 86 points.
(http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Blogs/Blog_Detail/0,4211,1304,00.html)
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2004 Merlot, 88 points. "...lovely cherry and plum flavors..."; 2004 Chardonnay, 88 points. "...delicate flavors of apple and spice, hinting at lemon..."; 2005 Tempranillo, 86 points. "...showed rich texture and the one-note plum flavors persisted well..."
By Harvey Steiman for The Wine Spectator, July 26, 2007.
Discovering the Pleasures of The Grape
(www.aspentimes.com/article/20070525/AE/105250046)
By Stewart Oksenhorn for The Aspen Times, May 25, 2007.
Woody Creek Cellars 2004 Merlot Wins Bronze at 2006 Colorado Mountain Winefest
(www.coloradowinefest.com/BestofFest_2006.pdf)
2006 Best of the Fest: Commercial Competition Winners, Colorado Mountain Winefest, September 16, 2006.
PitCo Officials Retake Oath, Vow to Constitution
(www.aspendailynews.com/archive_15272)
By Christine Benedetti for Aspen Daily News, August 3, 2006.
Woody Creek Cellars, Meet Winemaker Kevin Doyle
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Glenwood Springs Downtown Market, August 1, 2006.
Old World, New Region
(www.aspentimes.com/article/20051126/ASPENWEEKLY03/111270006)
By Stewart Oksenhorn for The Aspen Times, November 26, 2005.
Local Winemaker Stomps the Big Guys
(www.aspentimes.com/article/20051125/AROUND01/51205008)
By Stewart Oksenhorn for The Aspen Times, November 25, 2005.
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