Isabelle Farm & Mateo Restaurant Farm Dinner – July 11th

Please join us for a very special evening at Isabelle Farm in Boulder County.  Food will be provided by the ever-popular Mateo Restaurant and Executive Chef Kelly Kingsford, CapRock gin cocktails will be shaken by Mateo’s head bartender Britt Henze, and Lance Hanson will be on-hand to discuss the Jack Rabbit Hill Wines that will [...]

Outstanding in the Field – July 19th – with Restaurant six89!

Outstanding in the Field is the wildly successful roving culinary adventure that travels North America during the harvest season. The experience begins with a tour of the location – typically a local farm – then guests join farmers, producers, culinary artisans, and share the seasonally fresh meal set at a long table.  Chef Mark Fischer [...]

Round Tower Block Chardonnay

5/21/11: Today we potted about 150 chardonnay cuttings taken from the Upper West Side block on Jack Rabbit Hill, a good day to propagate vines as the Moon is in Archer, which means it’s a good day to be working on fruit-bearing plants like grape vines. Eventually these cuttings will end up in the Round [...]

Farm Dinner at Jack Rabbit Hill – July 3, 2011

Won’t you join us? We’re hosting dinner at the farm for what promises to be an amazing mid-summer meal prepared by Terroir Restaurant of Longmont, Colorado. Hosted by winemakers/farmers/distillers Lance & Anna Hanson, this is the 2nd annual summer farm dinner with Terrior and will feature five courses paired with Jack Rabbit Hill wines and [...]

Wine Dinner at Arugula Restaurant in Boulder – June 1, 2011

      Arugula is proud to announce that we are offering a 5 course dinner expertly paired with Colorado’s only Demeter-certified Biodynamic wines.  Winemaker Lance Hanson will be at Arugula to present and discuss his wines.  Located in Colorado’s Delta County near the town of Hotchkiss, Jack Rabbit Hill wines are sure to impress [...]

Now On Tap!

We’re now packaging and selling our wines in 5 gallon stainless steel kegs for progressive restaurants in Colorado! Packaging wine in stainless steel kegs for restaurant use is standard practice in Europe and is gaining ground in other states. We had some marvelous wine on tap in San Francisco in February and decided on the [...]

Job Opportunities at Jack Rabbit Hill Estate Winery & Peak Spirits Distillery in western Colorado

Position: Full Time Assistants Job Description: Assistants will gain hands-on experience in organic & biodynamic practices in grape and hop growing and wine & spirits making, working hand-in-hand with owners Anna and Lance Hanson. The work environment is dynamic and demands organization, thinking on the fly, creativity, juggling, strong listening and speaking skills, and a [...]

Menu for July 4 Farm Dinner hosted by Terroir Restaurant at Jack Rabbit Hill

Course 1: Smoked tomato gazpacho served with a spicy cucumber granita and a baby herb salad paired with the Jack Rabbit Hill Dill Farm Riesling Course 2: Grilled pear salad with arugula, local chevre, and sherry vinaigrette served with Wisdom Farm chicken rillettes on toast point paired with the Jack Rabbit Hill Mesa Winds Farm Pinot Gris [...]

10 acres of organic/Biodynamic hops in the ground at Jack Rabbit Hill

We now have over 10,000 baby hop plants acclimating to their new home on the north slope of Jack Rabbit Hill. Varieties: Cascade, Chinook, Crystal, Nugget and Northern Brewer. With the moon in descent beginning in mid-May, we uncovered our 2010 horn manure on the 18th and stirred and sprayed it on the future hopyard [...]

BD500 Horn Manure dug up May 18, 2010

Horn manure, aka BD 500, is made by filling empty cow horns with fresh manure from Jack Rabbit Hill’s own lactating cows, and burying the filled horns in the ground from Sept thru May every year. Stored in horns and buried for the winter, the raw green manure becomes a woodsy-smelling, dark, spongy humus. The [...]

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