The Long Way
Mesa County
A person uses pruning shears to harvest grapes from a vine.
Plate I. Hand harvesting grapes, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
A group of adults sitting in chairs outdoors under a shelter while a child plays on the ground.
Plate II. Outdoor seating, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
Two men talking at a counter.
Plate III. Outdoor tasting trailer, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
People gather at tables under a large open-sided metal structure with mountains visible in the distance.
Plate IV. Covered patio seating area, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
A person pouring wine from a bottle into a glass indoors.
Plate V. Wine tasting, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
A vineyard stretches across the foreground with mountains in the background.
Plate VI. Vineyard landscape, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
A server pours wine for a customer at a tasting counter inside a building.
Plate VII. Wine tasting room, The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com
A wall filled with rows of bottled wine on racks.
Plate VIII. The Ordinary Fellow. From theordinaryfellow.com

The Ordinary Fellow

Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado. Family owned craft winery.

Details

Map. Palisade, Mesa County, Colorado. Larger map
Where
202 Peach Avenue, Palisade, CO 81526. Directions
When
Thursday–Sunday Every hour between 12-6pm.
Fees
$35 per person, includes gratuity.
Access
Yes. We welcome your well-behaved, leashed pets.
Walk-in or reserve
Book A Tour.
Phone
970-464-2185
Managed by
Ben Parsons.
Established
2021.

If you're into Ordinary Fellow, it's worth stopping by the brand's rustic Palisade headquarters, which once housed a peach-packing plant.

Notable Events

  1. 1923The United Fruit Growers Association was formed, one of the first under the Colorado Cooperative Marketing Law, and operated continuously out of Palisade. aes.colostate.edu
  2. 2001Ben Parsons came to Colorado after studying enology at the University of Adelaide and found his way to Palisade. theordinaryfellow.com
  3. 2002According to Parsons, the co-op that long occupied the facility dissolved when growers decided to sell through individual stores and stands; a bread distribution company briefly occupied it before it sat vacant for several years. 5280.com
  4. 2007After his father died, Parsons inherited his collection of English pub cards, one of which later named the winery. 5280.com
  5. 2018Parsons left the Infinite Monkey Theorem to launch his new venture and chose the historic building for it. 5280.com
  6. 2019Winemaker Ben Parsons moved back to Colorado's Western Slope to focus on his passion project, The Ordinary Fellow Winery. spokeandblossom.com
  7. 2020Parsons set about renovating the historic site and transforming it into The Ordinary Fellow Winery and Tasting Room. spokeandblossom.com
  8. The warehouse, one of Palisade's original peach packing sheds beside the railroad tracks, was where local farmers loaded peaches onto trains heading to Denver. spokeandblossom.com

People

  • Ben Parsons, Founder / Winemaker (2001).
  • Amelia Perea, Hospitality director at The Ordinary Fellow.
  • Juan Adan, Vineyard manager who met Ben Parsons at Canyon Wind Cellars and helped bring The Ordinary Fellow to life (2001).
  • Karo, Shapes the tasting room.

Sources

  1. theordinaryfellow.com/pages/tasting-room
  2. theordinaryfellow.com/blogs/news/8-must-visit-wineries-in-and-around-palisade-5280
  3. theordinaryfellow.com
  4. theordinaryfellow.com/pages/tours
  5. theordinaryfellow.com/pages/about-us
  6. theordinaryfellow.com/pages/faq
  7. coloradowine.com/winery/the-ordinary-fellow
  8. instagram.com/ordinaryfellowwines
  9. 5280.com/a-historic-peach-packing-plant-is-home-to-palisades-newest-winery
  10. kjct8.com/2021/11/14/new-winery-opens-palisade
  11. spokeandblossom.com/stories/2022/3/18/the-ordinary-fellow-not-so-ordinary-warehouse-now-home-to-winery-tasting-room-in-palisade
  12. aes.colostate.edu/wcrc/orchard-mesa/about/history