Monthly Archives: December 2010

Golfer Fred Couples is in the Wine Business

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Golfer Fred Couples and winemaker Mitch Cosentino have gotten into the wine business together, creating Couples & Co, a wine brand from pureCru Napa Valley. Wine Business.com reports that Couples first got into wine when he was in his 20s and started talking about a partnership with Cosentino in 2008. The first two offerings are a Super Tuscan style sangiovese and a Napa Valley cabernet sauvignon blend. The Couples & Co 2006 Napa Valley Cabernet Sauvignon sells for $60 and the Couples & Co 2006 California Sangiovese is $32. Both wines have won several awards at wine competitions.

By Deidre Woollard | Source :: www.luxist.com

Paso Port

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Introducing the Paso Port girls, Ruby, Angelica, Violeta and Tawny. The owners of Paso Port Wine Company approached iii DESiGN with a pin-up girl vision for the look of their line of port wines.

Illustrator Ashley Kircher of the iii DESiGN team created each individual pin-up girl to represent each unique dessert wine. These award winning labels were recognized in the 2010 San Francisco International Wine Competition and are just the beginning of the Paso Port girls series. We can't wait for you to meet the rest of them!

Source :: Packaging of the World.

Limited Edition Mumm Sabre Gift Box

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Famed French champagne house G.H. Mumm, founded in 1827 and now owned by Pernod Ricard, has unveiled a chic new gift box in time for the holidays. The limited edition Sabre G.H. Mumm was designed by renowned Paris-based architect / designer Patrick Jouin. He very cleverly re-interpreted the iconic Mumm Cordon Rouge ribbon that adorns the bubbly's label as the handle of a modernistic sword for slicing the top off the bottle. The curled handle is covered in luxurious red hand-stitched leather while the blade is made of stainless steel with a blunt square end.

The set, priced at about $850, is presented in a white lacquered wood and leather box with a pull-out drawer specially designed to hold ice and keep a bottle of Cordon Rouge at the ideal temperature for serving – after you perform the ceremony of sabre-ing off the cork.

By Jared Paul Stern | Source :: www.luxist.com

Snooth Wine App

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A friend comes over and brings with him a bottle of wine, you've never seen this bottle before and are curious. If you've got your iPhone handy, in seconds you can snap a picture of the bottle and the new app from Snooth.com can tell you all about the wine. The new iPhone app, Snooth Wine Pro uses image recognition technology to help recognize any bottle of wine. Take a picture of a wine label, find the wine, and view maps, directions, and inventory of the stores closest to you, check out reviews and add the wine to your Wishlist or Virtual Cellar or purchase the wine online through the Snooth retail network.

"Snooth Wine Pro is the ultimate mobile tool for finding wine," said Philip James, CEO/Co-founder of Snooth.com. "It can be difficult to remember an exact vintage and year, now just take a picture and let Snooth Wine Pro do the rest."

Snooth Wine Pro is available in the iTunes App Store for $4.99. Users can also install Snooth Wine, a free, ad-supported version.