THE BIG INTERVIEW: MAYNARD JAMES KEENAN

For this issue, we were going to travel to the Merkin and Caduceus wineries in Jerome, Arizona, for our How-To feature and learn how to press grapes with Tool, Puscifer, and A Perfect Circle’s Maynard James Keenan, frontman-cum-vintner who owns the two award-winning wineries. The trouble was, the harvest came early, and our dreams of stomping on Nebbiolo grapes in a wooden vat with Keenan like in that beloved episode of I Love Lucy were dashed. Disappointed doesn’t even begin to cover it! We’d already bought a leopard headscarf, an off-the-shoulder blouse, and a peasant skirt and were ready to kick off our Puma sneakers and stain our feet purple.