Marczyk Fine Wines

12/12/2024

Friday Boozy Hot Chocolate Tasting featuring Estate Brands

Friday, December 13th 4:00-6:00pm

Adult Hot Chocolate anyone?
I mean, the answer is yes, right?! Join us this Friday 4-6 for some cold weather adult beverages featuring some totally irresistible boozy alpine hot chocolate that we cannot get enough of. ‘Tis the season to have all your hot cocktails queued up for light peeping, and we’ve got you covered.

12/07/2024

We made a whiskey! One day Seth, Kristen, Pete and Paul Marczyk all got together in a warehouse full of whiskey called Cask House and blended up something nice to stamp our name on and serve to all of you. And it’s good! Well, it’s hard not to do something right when you blend whiskey that spent time in Blanton’s 8yr, Stag 10yr and McKenna 10yr old barrels. The result is rich and smooth with notes of pear, spiced apple, clove and caramel. It’s the perfect gift for you or the ones you love that love whiskey and Marczyk’s or both. LIMITED and DELICIOUS so come get yours soon!

11/27/2024

Consider this with your Thanksgiving feast!
“Trocken” means dry, so you can set your sweet wine fears aside.
Elbling is one of the oldest grape varietals in Europe, and is primarily grown along the Mosel River in Germany. It has a crisp acidity, is super fresh, and packs a lot of high energy. Flavors of green apple, pear, herbs, and lime zest - with a minerally backbone. Stunning. NATURAL.

Pairings: oven roasted turkey with an herbaceous and savory stuffing, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, crisp salads, fresh seafood, roasted vegetables
$19.99/btl
• 3 bottles: $17.99/btl
• 6 bottles: $16.99/btl
• 12 bottles: $15.99/btl

11/25/2024

Looking for a great gift to take to the Friendsgiving event? Sottimano Dolcetto is perfect!
A killer vintage, but limited. Marczyk Fine Wines and Fairfax Wine & Spirits are the only stores in Colorado to carry this!
Sottimano Dolcetto is something we look forward to every fall, but this year we were reminded of just how precious and fickle winemaking can be. The '23 vintage of Dolcetto was not a plentiful or easy one. The wine that was produced is gorgeous, but there was not much of it to be made, and, though we are still the exclusive seller of this beautiful wine, we can only offer 10 cases at each one of our wine shops.
Sottimano Dolcetto d'Alba 2023 $23.99
https://shop.mwineonline.com/s/1000-1/i/INV-1000-23591

11/22/2024

Entertaining for the Holidays?
Cocktail Making 101 Tasting today, Friday!

Join us Friday from 4:00-6:00pm for delicious drinks made by amazing people (not us, promise) with unique ingredients AND a tutorial on how to make them in your own home. We’re lucky enough to have our badass friends/cocktail pros out from Estate Brands with us, and they can’t wait to show you how to impress a Thanksgiving/holiday crowd (and yourself) with these few ingredients and some home bar tricks and recipes. Don’t miss this!

Friday Cocktail Making 101 and Tasting
4:00-6:00pm

11/14/2024

Dare we say it: the holidays are upon us. For some of you that may sound daunting, and for others, this may be music to your ears. Personally, we’re more than ready for the romantically crisp weather, the bourbon-focused cocktails, the roasted meats and warm stews, and the gatherings of eating and drinking amongst family and friends. One of our favorite ways to get psyched for an upcoming seasonal change is to find a few new wines that we deem perfect fall/winter sippers and share them with you, our wonderfully astute, wine connoisseur-y customers. Not only are the wines we’ve chosen to feature for the Thanksgiving season perfect for all holiday fare and weather, but these two wines are family owned, organic, low intervention, sustainable and delicious as hell. They both come from California, and if you find yourself a self-proclaimed hater of California wines, do yourself (and your ego) a big ol’ favor and pick these up and just TRY to tell us that they aren’t delicious.

Dunites Moy Mell White Blend
Reg: $32.99
F&F: $26.99

Folk Machine Gamay
Reg: $27.99
F&F: $24.99

10/24/2024

Want to know where our unique selection of wine, beer and spirits comes from? We source the majority of our products from locally based distributors like Estate Brands (pictured here). Estate is run by an amazing husband and wife team, Aaron Steinke and Britt Russell, who treat their customers like gold. This week Aaron and Britt hosted our staff to a fabulous tasting of items to say thanks to the team and to provide some fun and education. We love their passion for their producers and products, their integrity when choosing who to work with and their generosity. Next time you buy a bottle of Lunaria Pinot Grigio Pet Nat, Dolin rouge vermouth or Hayman’s gin, you can thank them. (For a full list of what we carry from them, just ask! It’s a lot) You rock, !

10/01/2024

With fall arriving, it's time to think about delicious seasonal cheeses, and the wines that match. Thanks to Bill St John, we have a cheat sheet for you!
What’s With That Cheese? Well, White Wine!
By and large, and despite common assumptions, white wines do a better job than red wines as regular partners for cheese. The higher native acidity of white wines is a happier match for both the high salt and fat of most cheeses. Read on:
▪ Comté (France) with white Côtes du Rhône
▪ Emmenthaler (Switzerland) with Dry Sauvignon Blanc (Sancerre or New Zealand)
▪ Fresh Goat with Dry Sauvignon Blanc (Sonoma, Loire, New Zealand)
▪ Gorgonzola (Italy) with Vin Santo or Bual Madeira
▪ Havarti (Denmark) with Medium-dry German Riesling
▪ Mahon (Spain) with Semi-Sweet or Dry Madeira
▪ Manchego (Spain) with Penedès Chardonnay or Almansa Tinto (La Mancha
▪ Morbier (France) with White Jura or Mâcon Blanc or Burgundy Roug
▪ Mozzarella di Buffala (Italy) with Greco di Tufo or Lacryma Christi Bianc
▪ Pont l’Eveque (France) with Alsace Pinot Gris or Rhône Viognie
▪ Roquefort (France) with Sauternes or Barsac
▪ Gruyère or Beaufort (France) with Chablis or Dry Mâcon Blanc

09/28/2024

Two natural wines you should try!
KRISTEN'S PICK
Ramon Jane Baudili, Penedès, Spain
Friends & Family: $19.99/bottle
(Reg: $24.99)
When You're Craving a Wild Wine...
One of my favorite wines in the shop right now is the Ramon Jane Baudili out of Penedès, Spain, the home of Cava. This white blend of Xarel Lo and Parellada is utterly delicous, but definitely drinks off the beaten path. Between the blend, the terroir, and the fact that this wine is completely sans sulfur, it can be a wild one — in a good way. It's bright and refreshing and kinda creamy and oh-so-salty with notes of preserved lemon, pickled fruit, juicy peach, white flowers, and unripe pineapple.
DAVID'S PICK
Gustavo Riffo Lomas de Llahuen Pipeño, Itata, Chile
September Wine of the Month Feature: $19.99/bottle
This Wine is Full of Life!
The Gustavo Pipeño is a great way to introduce yourself to the world's oldest grape, known as Pais. On the nose I get a lot of ripe strawberry and raspberry with a kiss of smoke. There's a savory yet fresh and bright quality to this wine that's highly enjoyable.

09/27/2024

The Drinking lady says VOTE

09/27/2024

Confused about "Natural Wine"? Don't be, Kristen to the rescue!
A natural wine has nothing added, and nothing taken away.
Nothing Added
The "nothing added" part, then, refers to no pesticides of any kind in the vineyards and no additives in the winery. People add stuff to wine to make it more stable, to make it higher in alcohol, to make it taste and feel smoother, and to make a quicker-made wine taste more aged. Natural wine uses none of these tactics in the vineyard or winery.

Natural wine truly is just grapes and yeast, but here the yeast is naturally occurring in the winery or on the grapes, so no commercial yeast is needed. Also, commercial yeasts can alter the direction in which fermentation would naturally go, so we also require that natural wines not use commercial yeast.
Nothing Taken Away
The "nothing taken away" part means that a natural wine is not filtered or fined. You may have seen evidence of zero filtration in a wine bottle before — that's just yeast, and it's harmless. We like to say it adds MORE flavor or character to a wine, like salt to food. When you see no sediment in a natural wine, it may have been gravity-filtered naturally so that the sediment fell over time and then was removed.

Several agents can be used for fining wine, and it is the use of animal-derived products such as egg whites or milk casein that can prevent a wine from being marketed as vegan. Filtration strips a wine of character. The more you filter, the more you strip. So, as we see it, to be natural, a wine cannot be filtered.
To sum up, a natural wine:
• has nothing added and nothing taken away
• is fermented with native yeasts only — no commercial yeast
• contains no pesticides or additives
• was not fined or filtered

What about sulfur? That's a separate conversation, so stay tuned!

06/24/2024

We want you to drink these wines, yes, but DRINK THIS WINE is also the name of these wines.

Drink This Wine is a collaboration between cookbook writer and internet cutie Molly Baz (author of Cook This Book and More is More) and one of our favorite natural wine idols out of Oregon, Andy Young, of The Marigny — a collaboration that makes total sense, seeing as Molly and Andy are both into great-tasting, not-too-fussy, well-sourced food and drink things.

Each of the four wines we're offering is great in its own way, but we're also offering them as a package deal because we love the idea of the whole gang being enjoyed together.
save $5 off of each, and, if you get all 4, save an additional $7, for a total savings of $27 on 4 bottles. Order yours using the buttons below, through Tuesday, 6/25. Pick up your order at Marczyk Fine Wines starting Friday, 6/28.
https://shop.mwineonline.com/s/1000-1/b?g=CGP-1000-3159
White: An interesting blend of Riesling, Auxerrois and Pinot Gris, this white is aromatic as heck.
Orange: This juicy wine rides the line of white wine and skin contact (or orange) wine.
Cuvee: This wine is FUN! Juicy, bright, chillable — actually, we think even MORE chillable than the wine called "chillable" listed below.
More Red: This wine is called Chillable, and it is, for sure, but it's actually more structured and "red" than the Everyday Anyway Cuvee.

06/02/2024

Dear customers: we are celebrating today and will be closing early at 4pm. Come and get your City Park Jazz wine and thank you for your business!

2024 City Park Jazz Concert Schedule

03/26/2024

We promise the sun is coming back!
What are we drinking Now? Devin has a pure expression of Willamette Pinot Noir. Come and grab a bottle!
Grochau Cellars
Commuter Cuvée
Willamette Valley, Oregon
$24.99/btl.
Wanna go for a joy ride? Take your place atop this supple and resilient tannin frame on a comfortable and well-balanced seat of fresh black cherry and lavender-hinted oak. Commuter Cuvée is a blend of 11 vineyards, located all over the Willamette Valley. Each vineyard lot is fermented separately and aged in a mix of 70% French oak, 15% stainless steel, and 15% concrete tanks. It is then aged for 9 months before bottling. There's very little new oak in this wine, the aim of which is to make a fresh and pure expression of Willamette Valley Pinot Noir.