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Sadat X: Beautiful Blasphemy and the True Wine Connoisseur

Sadat X is the man behind True Wine Connoisseur, a Youtube series, where he rates wines that are under twenty dollars. Don't look for stemware here and forget spit buckets. He's taking the bottle directly to his mouth, letting the juice go down and the truth about...
Posted 15 Apr 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Wine Confidential pops the cork on Sacre Bleu

Wine Confidential is a series featured on the CBC, Canada's national public radio and television broadcaster. Get 7 minutes into the feature and sandwiched between wine luminaries Robert Parker, Dan Aykroyd, Gary Vaynerchuk and Wayne Gretsky is a clever shout out for the brand Sacre...
Posted 14 Apr 2010 | News, Sacre Bleu Wine | View Comments

Moms Who Need Wine

It's hard to ignore Tina Fey or quite frankly any woman who can look at you with a straight face and say "It's nice in a piece of stemware, but frankly, I'll take it in a sippy cup". And if 150,000 members at the Facebook Fan Page is...
Posted 12 Apr 2010 | Food, Hip Tastes | View Comments

Jim Jones Revue gives good Psychedelic Little Richard

I walked over to Jim Jones, thinking that I had recognized him, and asked “Are you Richard Ashcroft of The Verve?” He looked up at me with a Cheshire grin and replied “No but he used to be a big fan of mine.” His bands mates rolled their eyes at...
Posted 08 Apr 2010 | Events, Music | View Comments

Girl’s just wanna have wine

“We are the power base when it comes to wine purchasing,” is a now famous quote from Elizabeth Thach, Ph.D., a professor of wine business and management at Sonoma State University. To that imposing reality, add the fact that many men are introduced to wine by women, and one...
Posted 06 Apr 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Austin’s Waterloo and others uncork for Record Store Day

The original idea came from a guy called Chris Brown (no, not that Chris Brown), and Record Store Day was founded in 2007 by a group of people in an attempt to "show respect for the music that you've dedicated your careers and lives to, and help it from becoming...
Posted 05 Apr 2010 | Music | View Comments

W.R. Tish is Wine’s Merry Prankster

"Colbert getting out of the wine business; puts flavor elites on notice. Beer Wench and Wine Whore Elope. Dessert App Threatens to Replace Dessert". This is not mental health in action. This is W.R. Tish on April Fools Day and if you read further you'll see why...
Posted 31 Mar 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Hilah Cooking; She likes it SPICY

Hilah Johnson is cooking but not without some serious fun. This is a gonzo produced cooking show from the very cool Austin-based actor, writer, rock star, replete with "debauchery, irony, self-effacing humor, humility, irreverence, tight pants, Chia pet herb gardens and whatever else is cool these days". ...
Posted 30 Mar 2010 | Food | View Comments

The iPhone Happy Hour App

Now here's an App for the ages, well at least 21 and older. Happy Hours by the Dallas Observer shows you all of the food and drink specials going on in Dallas. Download the app on your iPhone or Android, or check out the mobile site at Dallas...
Posted 26 Mar 2010 | Hip Tastes | View Comments

Anne Marie; Wine Model to Oenophile

We've received a large number of inquiries over the past two years from fans and consumers asking who is the girl featured in so many of Sacre Bleu's ads and promotional posters. Since it really doesn't qualify as a State secret, we thought it would be fun to tell...
Posted 25 Mar 2010 | Sacre Bleu Wine | View Comments