The Storm Cellar

The Storm Cellar is a collaborative vision between Steve Steese and Jayme Henderson. During our many years in the restaurant industry, whether for business, study, or pleasure, we spent most of our time away from work in wine country. And we fell in love with it. We traveled the world’s wine regions in search of our next home and adventure for years, only to finally realize that it was just over four hours west of our former home in Denver, on Colorado’s western slope. The Storm Cellar is a project founded upon a love of Colorado, a desire to make great wine in this great state, and a goal of helping to put a relatively unknown, yet up-and-coming region, on the national map.

We specialize in high-elevation white and rosé wines made with 100% Colorado-grown fruit.

Showcasing the very best Colorado grapes, by means of minimal intervention in the winery, temperature-controlled fermentations, whole-cluster pressing, and careful and meticulous blending, is our goal. We craft wines from estate-grown fruit, in addition to sourcing grapes from top-tier vineyard sites across Colorado’s Western Slope and, in 2021, from top-tier vineyard sites across the country, due to the crippling frost of October 2020.