SACRE BLEU WINES

Dale Cruse explains; Champagne isn’t just for breakfast anymore

If you look closely at what I write, you'll find I don't love drinking just for the sake of drinking. I rarely - if ever - write about wine as an "object." Reading other people's tasting notes make me want to put a gun in my mouth. Instead, I write...
Posted 29 Jul 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Sideways is not the greatest wine movie ever

This Earth is Mine is a 1959 film directed by Henry King and starring Rock Hudson and Jean Simmons. Were it not for late night cable TV and too much Starbucks after 8:00 P.M., I might not ever have known about this movie and gone on believing that ...
Posted 29 Jul 2010 | Films | View Comments

Mad Men: Not Enough Wine

Liquor matters as much as any character on "Mad Men," AMC’s sick series about ’60s Madison Avenue ad execs. It probably matters as much to the show as the voluptuous Joan Holloway or the duplicitous Pete Campbell. So where did all of these characters, including our favorite imbiber, Don Draper,...
Posted 26 Jul 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Women are driving growth in U.S. wine consumption

This very interesting research also highlights the specific factors that will be behind the growth of the US wine market over the forecast period. We've heard it often before so the revelation factor has worn off a bit but it essentially says that the millennial segment is the future of...
Posted 13 Jul 2010 | News | View Comments

It happened one summer

I cried in summer for madder music and for stronger...
Posted 08 Jul 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

And our winner is…

My love for wine has been like my love for men, ever changing and maturing. First I would always go for the sweets ones (super fruity, white Zinfandels and dare I say Franzian in nature). And that was nice, but we all know how those sweet ones just end up...
Posted 07 Jul 2010 | Hip Tastes, Sacre Bleu Wine | View Comments

The Wine Guardian: chillin’ in style

If you are storing your wines in a closet and you've reached a point in it where you have a ratio of 50 times more bottles than dresses then it might be time to begin considering the addition of a "real"wine cellar. Perhaps it's time we introduced you to...
Posted 06 Jul 2010 | Technology | View Comments

Apple’s Jonathan Ive is Objectified

Somewhere, tucked discreetly away, on Apple's campus is the ultra-secretive design studio where the very brilliant Jony Ive works as the Chief Design Engineer for Apple. Ive is the genius behind the look and functionality of the iPhone, iPod and MacBook. Jony Ive is perhaps the most talented,...
Posted 24 Jun 2010 | Technology, Wine Technology | View Comments

Love My Cabernet

Here’s the dealio. You love Cabernet Sauvignon so much that you want to write it down and you want to write it down here to share with the world. It doesn’t matter to us which Cabernet you love or what region it’s from. We just want to hear about it....
Posted 23 Jun 2010 | Events, Vino in Texas | View Comments

Chef Monica Pope: Houston’s restaurateur royalty

"My latest epiphany has to do with man's desire to tell stories around the campfire....it's just the campfire keeps changing....my search in life has always been to find my story, who I am, where I come from, and what I am supposed to do here...I went to "get stories" from...
Posted 21 Jun 2010 | Food | View Comments