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Liquid Love

February 2, 2012 – 12:48 pm | No Comment
road kill beer

If this isn’t your first time stumbling across The Urban Grocer, then you’ll know we’ve got it bad for wine labels. Anything from Oz-based Mash makes us swoon, not to mention the creative team of …

Return of the Living Red

December 12, 2011 – 7:59 pm | One Comment
return of the living red, wide

Forget the chateaux. Forget the birds. Forget whatever nonsensical French-countryside illustrations you’ve seen on wine labels. And enter Mash. Always creative, never predictable, Mash is one of our favorite creative agencies. Hailing from Oz, their …

Lovely Labels: TUG’s Top Wine Label Picks

October 14, 2011 – 5:56 pm | No Comment
matsu wines

Admit it. Sometimes you impulsively buy a wine bottle for the label. And that’s not always a bad thing, especially if that label speaks as much to art and creativity as it does wine. We …

Barley Basher: Cervecería Sagrada

October 4, 2011 – 3:39 pm | No Comment

Beer and professional wrestling: Now there’s a winning combination. No, we’re not talking about Coors Lite and Hulk Hogan. This is a much more sophisticated and exotic kind of pairing. This is Cervecería Sagrada, and …

Green Glass: Full Circle Wine

July 19, 2011 – 12:09 pm | No Comment

So maybe you’re a sucker for design and you just can’t get over the aesthetic flaw of wine in plastic bottles, or perhaps you adhere to the school of thought that believes plastic tampers with …

All for One: UNA, Italy

July 5, 2011 – 8:57 am | One Comment

What better way to celebrate a birthday than with a gorgeous bottle of Italian wine? Apparently, the Italians agree. In honor of the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, creative agency Cibic Workshop partnered …

Marx to the Max: Marx Wine, New Zealand

May 12, 2011 – 8:41 pm | One Comment
marx wine

How does a design genius who happens to share the rare last name Marx dispel confusion? What he does best: packaging and branding. Ryan Marx of Marx Design recently launched promotional pieces to set him …

Can a Foodie Go A Week Without Food?

May 10, 2011 – 12:59 pm | 2 Comments

As a self-professed foodie, I. Can. Eat. So when I was introduced to New York City-based, Organic Avenue and their distinct five day juice cleanse program, LOVEdeep, I was particularly interested in the juice part. …

Bubbly Beauty: Bottle Green

April 22, 2011 – 12:14 pm | One Comment

If you’re jonesing for an elegant way to slake your thirst, look no further than the latest sparkling drink from Bottle Green, a little company based in Britain. When it came time to design the …

Butcher Brew: Blood Alley Bitter

April 20, 2011 – 3:26 am | 3 Comments

I’m not sure if it’s the darkly alluring title, the bold red hues or the pig and how it calls to mind charcuterie and other such farm-chic trends, but Blood Alley Bitter seems to hit …