The guy I’d want designing my wine labels

If I make my own wine someday, I want Kevin Tong to design my labels. He’s an illustrator of band posters and book covers among other things. Check out some of my favorite examples below.

All images are his copyright. Check out all his stuff at tragicsunshine.com

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Food & Wine Festival Coming to Austin

I was excited to read this news at austin360.com today:

Food & Wine magazine and the company behind the Austin City Limits Music Festival will produce the first Austin Food & Wine Festival in March 2012, organizers announced Tuesday.

The magazine, which has about 1 million subscribers, has been hosting the Aspen Food and Wine [...]

Teira Sauvignon Blanc 2010 Dry Creek Valley

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Yes, that’s Wonder Woman’s invisible plane. Fat lot of good it does her. A woman flying through the air in seated position is pretty conspicuous, don’t you think?

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Price: $13.50

Tasting notes: Nearly invisible color. Grassy, citrusy nose, but not in-yo-face about it. Light-bodied on the palate with more citrus fruit flavors [...]

Mourvèdre Blind Tasting

I haven’t been doing a great job of keeping up with #MourvèdreMonday posts and tweets lately. But mon amie du vin, Lisa Dinsmore (@DailyWine) is a Mourvèdre-lover extraordinare and often picks up the slack via Twitter. Since I don’t have a new Mourvèdre post for you (yet again) today, check out her awesome recent post at [...]

Finca el Origen Malbec Reserva 2008

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The photo above is of the BBQ pit at Smitty’s in Lockhart, Texas, one of my absolute favorite BBQ joints. This fire sits practically in the middle of the hallway as you enter and the smell in this little room is heavenly. Put this place on your bucket list.

Image credit: jstorer via Flickr

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M. Chapoutier Domaine de Bila-Haut ‘Occultum Lapidem’ 2007

Price: Around $25

Image link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/dobrych/4552132976/

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I’m experimenting with this new review format. I thought it would be cool to take the free association image I would typically insert in a post and give it more impact by making it the primary feature, with the text for bottle info (just the basics) and my [...]

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