Jordan M.
Yelp
Getting anywhere in RiNo is a huge pain, so I love that there was ample parking in the lot and the area around Deep Roots. The building is great for events and cute for small groups, the tables with swings for seats looked adorable. Very instagram worthy!
The pizza was fine, the happy hour deal was fine (I mean $30 for two glasses of wine and a shareable pizza is nothing to write home about, but it was fine). But the wine? The wine is... not good. I mean really just not good. Happy hour only applied to the house white or red. Generally not a wine snob, I was fine with this. Until I tasted it. The red tasted like you opened a bottle of 2 Buck Chuck a few weeks ago and you should probably dump it out, but you just got broken up with so you're sad and your standards are very VERY low. You know. When you take a swig straight outta the fridge and your face puckers? But depending on how bad the situation is you'll go ahead and drink it anyway? You know! The white was slightly more palatable.
Both the house white and red were distinctly fizzy, which is usually a sign of rushed or lazy winemaking. The wine basically wasn't done cooking when they threw it in the bottle (or carboy, or keg or whatever they were drawing from). Colorado wine is not great, so this isn't even a huge deal, but the price tag attached to this place? Yowzas. We tried a handful of the other offerings, they were better(ish) than the house wines, but still... just not great. I can't see myself returning, I certainly would never pay $10-14 for a glass of really incredibly mediocre-on-the-edge-of-bad wine.