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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 [...] 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 [...] May 17th, 2011 | Tags: Austin, Austin Food & Wine Festival | Category: Commentary | 
Leave a comment.Are you familiar with the View From Your Window contests at Andrew Sullivan’s The Dish blog? In short, readers send in pics from their windows and Sullivan makes a contest out of some of them, where readers are asked to identify the location of the photo, with as much specificity as possible. I never attempt [...] April 19th, 2011 | Tags: Andrew Sullivan, The Dish, VFYW | Category: Commentary |
2 comments. Add yours.I got this fortune with my kung-pao lunch today…
So who’s got some capital they want to throw at a blog that likes to compare wine to owlbears? I’m looking forward to the Zinfandel Grand Tasting here in Austin this Sunday (organized by ZAP and The Wine and Food Foundation of Texas. If any of my Austin readers will be there, let me know. Or just look for me there… I’ll be the one with the purple teeth.
[...] Check out this Tumblr: Star Wars and Wine. It’s way more Star Wars than wine (in fact this is the only wine-related thing I could find), but here’s hoping that it’ll live up to it’s name. Check out this cool Swiss wine shop where all of the display shelving is built from wooden wine cases. Designed by Zurich architecture firm OOS (click through for full project presentation with more photos). via inhabitat I was happy to stumble upon this today. John Kafarski over at the Wine Culture Project is launching a new project he’s calling The Mourvedre Minutes. [I]n The Mouvedre Minutes, across the world we shall travel paying homage to a relatively unknown grape as we survey its anonymous greatness. Can’t wait to follow this project [...] Google Books Ngram Viewer allows you to run graphs of how often different words or phrases have occurred in a corpus of books over a selected span of years. What does one do with such a powerful tool? Play around with wine words of course! Check out balance of power between “red wine” and “white [...] |
 
 
 
 
 
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Tour de Mourvèdre in El Dorado County
How did this slip under my radar?!
The Tour de Mourvèdre is going on in El Dorado County this weekend, July 1-4. Ten Mourvèdre producers are offering up special tastings and pricing.
If only I lived anywhere close. Anyone who goes, please report back. I always love discovering new Mourvèdre wines for my #MourvedreMonday series.
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