One on One: Sean Sheehan of Sheehan Winery
“I always tell people ‘wine is like a joke: if you have to explain it, it’s not very good,’” says Sean Sheehan, owner and head vintner at Sheehan Winery in Albuquerque.
Mar 26
Food + Drink
Jan 28
One on One: Paul Gallegos of Cutbow Coffee
“So many hands touch coffee before it even gets to me,” Gallegos says, acknowledging that roasting is just one step in the process from bean to cup. When he opened his shop, selecting the origins he wanted to serve was a joyful process. “I have this kind of ideal flavor characteristic for [each of] the six single origins that we deal with...
Mar 27
New Mexico Women: Deborah Madison
Chef and food writer Deborah Madison is shifting gears and writing a new memoir about her life.
Oct 30
Have a Drink with Christian Waguespack of the New Mexico Museum of Art
tasting notes with: Christian Waguespack. occupation: Curator of 20th Century Art at the New Mexico Museum of Art. venue: Hervé Wine Bar, Santa Fe.
Oct 01
Have a Drink with George Casey of Lost Padre Records
Lost Padre Records is a place you can easily get lost in for hours. The shop itself is small—just half an adobe house at 304 Catron Street near downtown Santa Fe—but within its walls is a high density of records you’ll want to discover and rediscover...
Aug 28
Have a Drink with Jennifer Schlesinger
Tasting notes with: Jennifer Schlesinger. occupation: gallerist and fine art photographer...
Jul 30
Tasting Notes: Curators of Sitelines 2018: Casa tomada
Casa tomada, the third installment of SITE Santa Fe’s tripartite SITElines biennial series, opens this month on August 3. I met with curators Candice Hopkins and Ruba Katrib in early July over drinks at Santa Fe Spirits (unfortunately José Luis Blondet was unable to join us...
Jun 28
The 2009 Antinori Tignanello
You can lie or you can tell the truth. You can’t do both but you can do one or the other. There are people who pretend to do both. Their pretense is nothing more or less than a lie. At first, lying is easy and honesty seems like the impossible dream. Over time, lying gets...
Jun 01
The 2009 Domaine Tempier Bandol Rouge And The Ten Biggest Lies About Wine
A good liar works elements of truth into his lies. A great liar uses big lies to make his small lies more credible. These day, there are liars everywhere you go, even in the wine world. Why would anyone lie about wine? To sell you wines you don’t want. The good news?...
Apr 01
1985 Château Cheval Blanc
She told me her stories. She talked about her childhood, about the lies the adults told to the children and the pain the little girl experienced after she learned the truth. We drove back and forth across the country. Most of the time it was west to east and east to west but there...
Feb 01
1988 Raymond-Lafon Sauternes
There’s a ring around the moon with four stars inside the ring. That means it will rain during the next four days. A dog sleeps on his back. That means he trusts you. The prows of the fishing boats face the ocean. That means the tide’s coming in. A woman touches your hand while she...
Nov 01
Roxanne Swentzell
One day, when she was in her twenties, Roxanne Swentzell paced a barren corner of her grandmother’s land at Santa Clara Pueblo. She was a homeless, single mother of two...
Dec 01
2009 Louis Roederer Cristal Champagne
In the glass, the 2009 Cristal is a ripe gold. Eight-year-old Champagnes are not supposed to be able to reconcile age with beauty, but this one does. If you’re the kind of person who likes to discover the ancient in the modern, and vice versa, the living color of the 2009 Cristal will send chills up and down your spine...
Nov 01
2007 Riofavara Nero D’Avola “Sciavè”
Dionysus stood at the end of the stone pier in Chios. He was watching the sky, the horizon, and the light on the water. He watched the pirate ship as it made its way into the bay. It was an old, solid ship with a black hull and a frayed white sail. There were twelve pirates on...
Oct 01
2007 Domaine Les Pallières Gigondas “Les Racines”
In prehistoric times, the line that connected people to each other was regarded as one of [...]
Sep 01
2015 Commanderie de la Bargemone Rosé, Coteaux d’Aix-en-Provence
"Buy the mystery, sell the history” is one of the oldest of Wall Street’s old sayings. The traditional interpretation is that you should buy stocks when they’re widely misunderstood and sell them after they become [...]
Aug 01
The 2005 Zenato Amarone Della Valpolicella Classico
He was lost. He’d been lost for years but had refused to admit it. Now he had no choice [...]
Jun 01
The 2015 Antoine Arena Patrimonio Rosé
In this world, there are two kinds of relationships: the ones that get better and the ones that get worse. There are people out there—evil people—who will tell you there’s a third kind: the relationship that stays the same [...]
Apr 01
The 2014 Comtesse de Chérisey Puligny-Montrachet “Hameau de Blagny”
There’s this thing that bothers me. It’s been bothering me my whole life. I don’t know what to make of it or what to call it. That’s part of the problem. It won’t show its face [...]
