CRUSHING REDS

Ben Parsons was born in the UK and has worked in the wine industry for 10 years. He began at Layton’s Wine Merchant, a Bordeaux and Burgundy specialist retailer in London and attained his Diploma in wine from the Wine and Spirit Education Trust. From there he traveled to Australia and gained a post-graduate degree in Enology from the University of Adelaide before working in the Marlborough region of New Zealand. Ben came to Colorado in 2001 and started making wine for Sutcliffe Vineyards in 2003. In 2005 he founded Colorado WineWorks, LLC to help small wineries produce premium wines. In addition to his full-time job at Sutcliffe Vineyards he now consults for 8 wineries in Colorado, Missouri and New Mexico; and regularly travels back to Australia to work the harvest.