Best Places to Sip a Wine: The Boonville Hotel

By Kevin Day Published March 12, 2016 • Opening a Bottle

Many of the articles on Opening a Bottle focus on wine by the bottle and how it changes from start to finish. But every now and again, a single glass at a single locale in a singular moment creates something completely indelible.

I was tired and road-weary. So was my newly found-out-as-pregnant wife, Hailey. As each twist in Highway 128 revealed yet another oak-laden forest, or empty hillside of brittle yellow grass, Boonville and its namesake hotel seemed impossibly far away. For a long weekend away from Denver in the middle of summer, time in this precious place wasn’t on our side.

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