Black Mesa Winery

Black Mesa Winery
1502 Hwy 68
Velarde, New Mexico
USA 87582
Phone: (505) 852-2820
http://www.blackmesawinery.com/

Contact: Jerry Burd
Email: [email protected]

Once upon a dream.....at least that's what happened to Lynda and me. I needed a new career after 10 years as a minister in the Christian Chruch (Disciples of Christ). A very vivid dream one night seemed to indicate a vineyard and possibly wine -- it helped that we were living in the Central Valley of California. So, being the rational person that I am, I quit the ministry, found a job writing grants for a 3-county nonporfit and moved to the Willamette Valley in Oregon. Lynda joined me 3 months later, and took a job working for the Corvallis School District.

On the weekends I volunteered at a small winery, Belle Fountain Cellars near Corvallis. After two years, I began to see that wine making was more attractive than grapevine growing. At the invitation of owner/winemaker Rob Mommsen, I began my journey in the challenging world of winemaking. I learned enough to be dangerous, Lynda and I were tired of the rain (being Colorado people at heart), and we both were ready for another change of life. I was about to embark upon my 5th career. I'd always told myself that I would always need to work, so I better find something that was fun, satisfying and challenging, and hopefully pay the bills.

As my 50th birthday approached, Lynda asked me how I wanted to mark that auspicious occassion. I remarked, tongue-in-cheek, "I've was hoping for a red 1963 Corvette and a 25 year old wife -- or we could buy a winery." Lynda didin't even hesitate. She went for the winery. Then she remarked that it would be nice if the winery were in New Mexico -- and around Santa Fe would be nice so she could be a part of the art community. I didn't have anything against that except as far as I knew, New Mexico had no wineries. Two years later we owned Black Mesa Winery in New Mexico.

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