Bringing the Wine Home

As you know, we’re roughly three years into the Trans-Americas Journey–our five year 200,000 mile working road trip through North, Central and South America. And it’s cool as hell. But last month we were tempted with an opportunity worth putting our little Journey on hold for.

The Murphy-Goode Winery in Sonoma County, California is looking for a Wine Lifestyle Correspondent for six months (learn more about what the heck we’re talking about here). Essentially, they need someone (in our case, two someones since we’re applying together) to learn more about wine and meet other wine lovers and potential wine lovers then blog, vlog, write, photograph, film and social media the heck out of the experience in order to promote wine in general and the Murphy-Goode and Sonoma County brands in specific.

The biggest part of the application process, so far, is a 60 second video that we produced and submitted. Check it out and vote for us if you can. It’s funny, even according to non-relatives, and it’s  just a minute long, so there’s not much risk on your end.

WATCH AND VOTE FOR OUR REALLY GOODE VIDEO

Learn more about us and the making of our video

So for the past six weeks or so we’ve been doing what we normally do–blogging, making videos, twittering, reaching out to our fan base and friends and family online, maintaining a blog and building out our web site and drinking wine–but with the focus shifted to this new and exciting goal.

One of the happy new connections we’ve made during the Murphy-Goode Wine Lifestyle Correspondent application process is Andrea over Andy’s Goode Life who’s been gracious enough to publish a few guest posts from us about how to achieve Brand Believablity and Consumer Credibility, why V is for  Vaynerchuk, Not Vino and Bringing the Wine Home: Passion in the Passing Lane. She also recently threw down a bit of a wine challenge, asking for solutions to one of three specific wine-consumption conundrums. It’s the least we can do, so here’s our answer to her #1 question…

Q: When I drink red wine, I often get the dreaded “red wine teeth,” which is an embarrassing condition to have at a party when I intend on talking, smiling, or otherwise showing my newly wine-stained chompers. And is there any way to reduce this affliction without hampering my enjoyment of reds?

A: Rinse with white.



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Swine Flu Fashion – Queretaro, Mexico

Near the tail end (get it) of the whole hysterical and (in our opinion) unfounded swine flu mess in Mexico where it all began, we found ourselves walking down Calle 5 de Mayo in Queretaro. As we passed an ultra-hip, fashionable clothing store the window display caught our eye. There, next to dangerously low-riding jeans and pricey canvas handbags, was a t-shirt with an adorable pig on the front (shades of Charolette’s Web) captioned with the words el cerdo es inocente (the pig is innocent).

We balked at the roughly $15 price tag, then we saw the model number: Virus H1N1.

Priceless.

The Pig Is Innocent!

The Pig Is Innocent! Eric's new favorite t-shirt, bought in Quertaro, Mexico and shot in front of the main cathedral in Zacatecas, Mexico from the balcony of awesome room 404 at the Santa Rita Hotel.

 

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Wonderful Wine Ice – Querétaro, Mexico

You’ve probably heard of ice wine–a dessert wine made from grapes that have been frozen on the vine which concentrates their sugars. But Wine Ice? It was news to us too but anything that has wine in it is worth a try and a few pesos so when we were tipped off to a local concoction of homemade lemon ice drowned in red wine at an ice-cream shop called Nieveria Italy in Querétaro, Mexico we went full steam ahead.

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Nieveria Italy in Querétaro, Mexico has been in business since 1940 and is the home of Nieve de Limon con Vino Tino.

We were skeptical. The whole thing sounded like a slushy version of the neon pink wine coolers the cheerleaders used to drink through straws in high school. We became even more skeptical as we watched the guy plop a scoop of pale lemon ice in the bottom of a plastic cup then fill the cup from a jug of cheap Mexican red wine sitting by the cash register.

But then we tasted it, and, yum! The lemon ice gives a summertime pop to the solid red wine that lightens and brightens the whole thing up but not in a bubble-gummy (or cheerleadery) way. Somehow, the combination improves both ingredients and melds them into a drink so tasty we got brain freeze from sipping it so fast and very nearly turned back for seconds.



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