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This
section of our website is offered to provide some insight into running
a small winery
in a small community in Surface
Creek Winery & Vineyards, LLC is owned by Jim & Jeanne
Durr. We are both
mostly-recovered lawyers who left
the Front Range of Colorado ( There
are two other personages that are part of our operation that stated in
1999. Nick is our
21 year old college student
son. He is taller,
better-looking and
smarter than me, but for the time being I have the advantage of age and
experience in matters that do not require a youthful, good-looking, fit
body. The second
important person is our dog
Boomer. We
will develop his own web
page and you will discover that he too is smarter and better looking
than
me. But I am taller. We live in an old stone farm house which records say was built in 1896 – 15 years after the Ute Indians were run out of the area. Our winery is located there. Our wine tasting room and art gallery is located in an old stone Oddfellows Hall built in 1927 in Eckert on Highway 65 – one-half mile from our home. My essays
about our experience reflect my own experiences.
Other wineries on the Western Slope of
Colorado have done it differently . . . it seems that each winery has
started in
a different way. We
were one of the more
under-capitalized wineries. (The
exterior of several wineries cost way more than did our entire
operation.) The
essays are subject to change from time to time.
This is not a blog because I am too busy, too lazy
to keep up a constant
chatter of observations of what’s going on around here. But I’ll do my
best to keep current, and when
I write I hope it will not waste your time. Jim Durr |
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