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WHITE ROCK— It's a little incongruous. In this unassuming Los Alamos bedroom community, in a former horse barn behind an ordinary-looking house in a normal, if rural, neighborhood, resides New Mexico's only licensed spirits distillery.

But Don Quixote Distillery— yes, named after the absurd, idealistic knight of Spanish literature— chugs out up to 16 gallons a day of a brandy that has already found favor with several New Mexico wineries and, by all accounts, could earn similar approbation from ordinary New Mexicans this holiday season.

Started in 2005, Don Quixote became New Mexico's first...

Tuesday, December 18, 2007
by Kiera Hay • Journal Santa Fe

We’ve reached the middle of summer, when the sun is at its zenith and only a fool would be tempted to spend time over a hot stove. When the mercury starts to simmer in its glass cylinder it’s time to head for the back yard grill or better yet, the refrigerated dining rooms of neighborhood restaurants. Chips and salsa, burgers and brats, rice vermicelli bowls and spring rolls, tandoori and tabbouleh: this is hot weather food and it demands to be washed down with cold beer.

Yes, it’s possible to find a grassy Sauvignon Blanc that won’t clash too badly with a cilantro and chile-laden...

Friday, July 1, 2005
by Gwyneth Doland • localflavor magazine