View of Elephant Butte Lake, NM
Elephant Butte Lake, NM
Across the highway from Elephant Butte Lake, NM
On the road to Silver City, NM
Abandoned mining prospect
Cacti along the road
halfway through to Silver City, NM
Sunrise in Deming, NM
View of New Mexico Vineyards, Deming, NM
First two crates with grapes
Loading the last crate
Hard manual work
The grapes are coming!
A truckfull of grapes
Securing the crates
Petit Sirah grapes
More Petit Sirah
The Italians: John Balagna (owner of the Balagna Winery in Los Alamos) and Paolo D'Andrea, (manager of New Mexico Vineyards and owner and winemaker of Luna Rossa Winery)
Stainless steel tanks in Paolo's winery
Silvia and a Joshua Tree
Paolo's Luna Rossa tasting room
Paolo's gift: wine, what else?
Wrapping the gift
It's Chile Festival in Hatch, NM
Chile everywhere
What a schedule!
Mini chile ristras
Fermentation has started
Punching down the cap
The whirling mass of grape skins and must
Collecting sample to check the brix
Pressing the grapes - the free-run juice
More free-run juice
Marty makes sure the young wine goes in the barrel
The pneumatic membrane of the press had exploded and needs to be replaced
Replacing the pneumatic membrane
The new membrane is in place, back for more pressing.
View from the Balagna tasting room of the White Rock
