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Introduction Moving on from Halloween and Day of the Dead we come to Thanksgiving; a holiday in the middle of late fall when leaves in most places have already fallen or gathered into piles for children to dive into. Along the Rio Grande and backed by the Sandias we...

Salon Saturday is a new format for my radio show. It expands on wine topics I previously wrote about to include Music, Film, Books, Locales, and Restaurants. Separate tabs will take the reader to that portion of the blog of most interest. Comments on the new format...

This is an update from last year’s blog with a few additions and more details. In the past, I’ve done Hollywood & Vine presentations covering movies about wine so now I’d like to do one on Horror Movies and Spirits. Now, right off the bat let me say no decent...

While we sommeliers do try to educate wine lovers, some of the terminology we use can seem obscure or suggest something entirely different from what the term represents. The terms below are commonly used to communicate what characteristics we are perceiving in a wine....

The Wines of New Mexico 2022 While we did not do an on-air show we did cover topics that will be part of our new three-hour format. The first new show will air on May 7. I thought starting out with New Mexico wines would be a good way to begin. Accordingly I brought...

This blog is based on the Spirits of New Mexico radio show that aired on April 2, 2022. It is also our last radio show as we are going to a new expanded format to include wine, film, music, literature, dining and fun places to explore. We do on-air tasting of one or...

This blog is based on the Spirits of New Mexico radio show that aired on March 26, 2022. We do on-air tasting of one or two wines to illustrate what is available in a particular wine region, or as a contrast of what influence a wine region has on a grape or blend. We...

This blog is based on the Spirits of New Mexico radio show that aired on March 19, 2022. This show was originally going to air on March 5 and then March 12. That did not work out, but we finally did the show on March 19. We do on-air tasting of one or two wines to...

This blog is based on the Spirits of New Mexico radio show that aired on February 26, 2022. We do on-air tasting of one or two wines to illustrate what is available in a particular wine region, or as a contrast of what influence a wine region has on a grape or blend....

This blog is based on the Spirits of New Mexico radio show that aired on February 19, 2022. We do on-air tasting of one or two wines to illustrate what is available in a particular wine region, or as a contrast of what influence a wine region has on a grape or blend....