
Winery & Colorado Events
Join Buckel Family Wine for a variety of exciting events both at our winery and across Colorado.

Dice & Cards
Fridays 4-7pm
Midwest Joe will be leading folks in rounds of dice and card games 4-7pm. Games will run throughout the evening, so stop in anytime and jump in.
Wine, NA drinks, and snacks available for purchase.


Sip Into Spring
Sip into Spring brings together the best of wine, food, art and music worlds with unique wines, live music, local artisans, highly curated food, and local craft vendors, complete with quality swag and intimate wine tastings.

Fashion Show
Let’s celebrate all the Gunny Gals in downtown Gunnison with a fashion show! Wine & Bites pairing at each stop. Checkout the spring fashion popping up in downtown Gunnison this March. Tickets $25 per person.

Wine and Cheese Pairing
Pull in for this adventure in cheese and wine. Produced on the lands of Colorado get a taste and learn a bit too! We’ll be pouring wine paired up with the James Ranch cheese. Yum and Fun!

Slow Food Denver - Conscious Consumer: Colorado Wine
Join us for an intimate wine tasting that will open your eyes to the wonderful Colorado wines often overlooked. Skeptical? Come taste with Advanced Sommelier, Logan Silbert

Wine Cocktails at AhHaa in Telluride
Discover the art of blending wine with creativity. Perfect for wine enthusiasts and cocktail lovers alike, this hands-on experience explores the versatility of wine as a foundation for delicious, refreshing cocktails, using complimentary ingredients.
Enjoy a relaxed and fun atmosphere while sipping your creations, indulging in light bites, and mingling with fellow cocktail enthusiasts. Whether you’re looking to impress at your next gathering or simply elevate your own happy hour, this class is the perfect blend of education and entertainment.

Winemaker Dinner with 1880 Tapas
Buckel Family Wine and 1880 Tapas and Spirits Presents: A Winemaker Dinner
Join us for an exquisite evening of fine wine and exceptional cuisine at 1880.

Ouray Winter Wine Festival
Join us at this locally curated and intimate wine festival in the winter wonderland of the historic mountain town of Ouray, Colorado. Sip wine, meet winemakers, and eat oysters.

Valentine Dinner
Buckel Family Wine and 1880 Tapas and Spirits Presents: A Winemaker Dinner
Join us for an exquisite evening of fine wine and exceptional cuisine at 1880.

Cheesy Raclette Party
BEST Après Ski in Gunnison
Après in high alpine style! Enjoy the raclette cheese all gooey with accoutrements and some good laughs. What's raclette? Come see for yourself, you won't be disappointed.
Free for our valued wine club members, come use up your 2024 free glasses of wine. WINE CLUB MEMBERS. RSVP here
Tickets $25 per person for non-wine club members, includes a glass of wine and Raclette cheese. Tickets for non-wine club members

Drink Cabernet Franc
Two Cabernet Franc’s ~ Two Winemakers ~ Plus You!
Après Ski with us! Hang with with winemakers of two distinct Cabernet Franc’s, picked off the same vineyard and made with two different styles. Hear from Nicole Indovino of Indovino Wine and Joe Buckel about how they made their Cabernet Franc’s, what’s the same, what’s different? Taste the wines side by side… and learn for yourself what makes each unique.
Included in $35 Ticket:
Racelette Cheese (hot cheese with accoutrements)
Cabernet Franc

Buckel Family Wine: Sip & Shop
Sip on a glass of wine and pursue local makers and their wares. Gift shop for loved ones and maybe find something you can’t live without! Food by Luna Bakery and sip on mulled wine!
Mountain Valley Creations, Gothic Mountain Jewelers, Opal Orbit, and Daydreams and Joy. You’ll find something for everyone - including yourself!

Pie and Wine Pairing
SOLD OUT
More wine please, pass the pie…
Come pair wine and pie with us! Join us for a late afternoon of eating pie and sipping wine. We will have four pies to eat and we’ll be pairing it with four wine. Grab a friend and come join the fun!
Pies created by Base Camp Bakery.

Employee Ownership
Come learn about funding opportunities for Employee Ownership in rural Colroasdo.
Marion Champoux-Pellegrin of RMEOC will be giving a live presentation about what this could mean for business owners and their employees.

Live Fully: Wreath Making
Adorn your front door!
Alexis from Sundrop Flora will be using her locally grown dried flowers to teach and guide you in creating a wreath to bring you holiday cheer. You’ll be creating a 12 inch wreath and sipping wine.

Backyard Dinner @ Crested Butte’s Personal Chefs
Join us for an extraordinary dinner with a spacial nod to exceptional proteins:
Appetizer : Savor the Wild Sockeye Salmon Crudo with Basil, Lime, Cucumber
Main: Smoked XIT Ranch Tenderloin + Local Chiles
Mashed & Roasted Gunnison Gardens Cauliflower with Brown Butter
Sweet: Peach Pavlova + Lemon Syrup
$50 per person - wine for purchase at the event

Colorado Winefest
Colorado Mountain Winefest presented by Fisher’s Liquor Barn returns to Palisade for its 32nd year! Named the Best Wine Festival in the Nation by USA TODAY in 2017, Mountain Winefest is an event not to be missed! Join thousands of fellow wine enthusiasts as you sip unlimited samples of Colorado wine, enjoy live music, chef demonstrations, educational seminars, and more in picturesque Riverbend Park.

Gunnison Harvest Festival
Come on down and stomp grapes with us, as we celebrate the 2024 grape Harvest.
Burnell’s Food Truck
Grape Stomp
Barrel Tasting
Juice Samples
Games
No ticket needed, just stop by for the fun!

Sundrop Flora Pop-Up
Looking to make life pretty?
Sundrop Flora will be selling fresh-cut, organically-grown flower bouquets from 3:30-5:30pm. The flower bouquets will include a mix of in-season flowers including ranunculus, zinnias, cornflowers, amaranth, calendula, marigolds, and maybe even a dahlia or two.
Make an enticing table with wine and flowers!

Live Fully : Charm necklace with Mountain Floral Goods
BE CHARMED!
Alex with Mountain Floral Goods is back with resin pendants. Sip wine, get a demo on resin flower charms. You’ll learn all about it, hang with friends and leave with a charm necklace made with a local pressed flower, mushroom, or fall fauna.
$40 Ticket includes: 1st glass of wine, tutorial, and a single charm necklace

Live Fully: Flower Arrangement Class
Do you want to make pretty bouquets with fresh flowers?
Alexis from Sundrop Flora will be using her locally grown flowers to show you haw to build a beautiful bouquet to enjoy in your home. Get creative while enjoying some delicious local wine in our Gunnison Tasting Room.

Colorado Wine Walk
Colorado Wine Walk
Come on over to the Dairy Block in Denver and enjoy Colorado’s finest in wine! We’ll be there…

The Benefits of Improv: Why Laughter Is Good For Business
Calling all new, seasoned and serial entrepreneurs…
This Startup Colorado Hometown event - a meetup meant to get your creative juices and laughter flowing.
Bringing the Improvisation into your Business conversation with Heather Hughs: Artist-in-residence, Instructor of Theater; Western Colorado University.
Join Heather as she shares the perspective of art and business intersection while leading us on a journey of theater and improv in our daily business routine. A bit of levity for our work life.

Live Fully: Hand Painted Wine Cups
Wine cups - cups are already made for you, you personalize with paint!

Eat Well: Bonfire Oysters
1st come 1st serve: Oysters with Wine -
Eat oysters, drink wine. Have fun with this extraordinary culinary experience. Bonfire Oyster Co's premium oysters, paired with Buckel Family Wine will be a day you do not want to miss!
Savor flavors: crafted wines and exquisite oysters


Live Fully: Flower Arrangement Class
Do you want to make pretty bouquets with fresh flowers?
Alexis from Sundrop Flora will be using her locally grown flowers to show you haw to build a beautiful bouquet to enjoy in your home. Get creative while enjoying some delicious local wine in our Gunnison Tasting Room.
SOLD OUT - CHECKOUT THE AUGUST DATE

Burnell's Food Truck
Everyone’s favorite food truck is back!
Eat Well with Burnell’s Food Truck ‘real - good- food’. Stop by the winery from 4-7pm for some classic Brunell’s!

Plantain Tree Food Truck
Plantain Tree Food Truck
Stop by 4-7pm and experience this food for yourself!
Jamaican foods to fill your belly and your soul! Get into the summer grove with these unique flavors.

Eat Well: Bonfire Oysters
Secure your oysters, for this extraordinary culinary experience. Bonfire Oyster Co's premium oysters, paired with Buckel Family Wine will be a day you do not want to miss!

Barrel Top Talks - Water, Land, Agriculture, & Recreation
Do you want to know more about water, land, agriculture and recreation in the Gunnison Valley? Are there ways to leverage water to improve our life, land and livelihood?
Get into the conversation and learn more about what your neighbors are up to in the valley.
Join MJ of Calder Farm and Bill of Parker Pastures to discuss the benefits of agricultural water use for our valley's ecosystem, recreation, and utility.

Leevers Locavore - Denver In-Store Wine Tasting
Find us in and around Colroado
Try Colorado wine - for the adventurous wine drinker!
Whether you are a wine connoisseur or a novice enthusiast, come explore the range of aroma and taste nuances that define Buckel Family Wine. These high elevation wines are made with minimal intervention - hand harvested grapes, no added sugar, and low sulfites. The western slope terroir makes these lighter styled wines unique to the mountains, mesas, and rivers that define Colorado.