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Sal Silva plays some loud Texas Doublestereo

Sal Silva defines Texas music entrepreneur:  balls out, fiercely intelligent, no apparent awareness of bounds and limitations.  He is the guy engaged with and immersed in one of the most dynamic, progressive music scenes in the United States.  Take the upcoming behemoth SXSW and even Austin City Limits out of the...
Posted 22 Feb 2010 | Music | Comments

Love my Wine

“Wine, madam, is God’s next best gift to man.” – Ambrose Bierce Walk into any Central Market, Texas outlet and chances are 50-50 you’ll see a woman buying wine. No surprise there. It’s a fact of the wine world here that women love wine as much as men, even more so...
Posted 20 Feb 2010 | Sacre Bleu Wine | Comments

Scott Herold’s Redemption in 3/4 Time

In High School I was kicked out of a band because I could not sing like Sammy Hagar. Who the hell gets kicked out of some shitty band cause they can't sing like Sammy Hagar? What I was good at, however, was the Blues. I drifted in and out different...
Posted 19 Feb 2010 | Music | Comments

iPhone and Leah Hennessey hear it through The GrapeVine

Leah Hennessy is the woman behind a great deal of millennial wine thinking and the brain trust of Millennier Wine+Millennials, her site devoted to how wine can best be marketed to the coveted demographic. Her bandwidth lately has expanded to include research and marketing of a very...
Posted 16 Feb 2010 | Sacre Bleu Wine | Comments

Boston Wine Riots continue unabated

If we could give out a wine tasting promotional version of an Academy Award, we would surely have to consider the best picture nod for Tyler Baliet and The Second Glass for the inspired and tasty Wine Riot. Millennial oenophiles in Boston get a front row seat for...
Posted 16 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments

Wine+Chocolate=Amour, Cocotte & Passionner

Naysayers moan that it cannot be done, pairing wine with chocolate. Dispense with the haters. The truth is that if you have the right wine to complement the right chocolate it can be a pairing created in heaven! Whether you are pairing a delicate white chocolate or a lively dark...
Posted 12 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments

With This Wine I Thee Wed..

Their voices are real and folksy with occasional attitude of sorts. For example, if one reads Joe's description of himself, readers would learn that he's an avid football fan, mainly listens to old Punk and Jazz, claims to cook better than his Mom and "once killed a man...
Posted 11 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments

Wine and some sick love affairs

Romeo and Juliet were lucky to have had so many good wines almost right in front of them. Being from Verona, a beautiful Roman city in the Veneto, the two had Soave, Bardolino and Valpolicella within a few miles or less. Against that very cool wine reality, one has to...
Posted 09 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments

The Super Bowl and our wines

Super Bowl XLIV is Sunday and we're wondering if there a wine that best matches the team profiles for the New Orleans Saints or the Indianapolis Colts or for that matter is there a wine most suitable for a halftime with The Who? One of the best people...
Posted 04 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments

The Hubris of Social Media Expertise

There’s little shock anymore that social media extends to more people now than any other media. But could social media truly have the most profound impact on people since television? I’d say possible but let's not forget the songs about the video that killed the radio star too quickly. What...
Posted 02 Feb 2010 | Hip Tastes | Comments