Because another wine food and travel blog was way too long.
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Burning our FUSEBOX at Both EndsIt’s here! It’s here! We received our FUSEBOX blending kit and are all set for the big competition. But what we can’t quite decide is if we’re working together or against each other! What am I talking about? It’s a little kit put together by Crushpad. And who is Crushpad, you say?
Those grape-squeezing folks at Crushpad have selected 10 bloggers to participate in the first ever Crushpad Fusebox BlendOff. When I count the names in the e-mail Joe and I count as two! So do we submit two different blends? And what’s a Fusebox? Well for one, it’s not that thing you have to go mess with when your hair-dryer manages to blow all the power in one-side of your house! But you’d know if you’d read my article in Palate Press…
Each participant will receive a Fusebox and will submit her best blend and label design to Crushpad by 8:00 a.m. Pacific Standard Time on November 2, 2009. Then the winemakers at Crushpad will select a Best Wine Blend. Our wine can be a traditional Bordeaux blend, or we can ‘get creative.’ The goal is to come up with a blend that will sell. And, for the graphic arts creative types, the Crushpad design team will select a Best Label Winner. Of course this has to pass TTB (for the uninformed; the Alcohol And Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, which remarkably does not have an “A” or “W” anywhere in the abbreviation!) approval for a COLA (not Cola, or un-Cola, or even a Cost of Living Index but a “Certificate of Label Approval.”)
Each winner will receive one case of his, her or in our case, “their” customer-blended wine! And of course, bragging rights. So, can I do it? Again? Perhaps, but we’re going up against these bloggers! - DirtySouthWine brought to you by Hardy Wallace, winner of the Murphy Goode Really Goode Job! Now, to really date myself, I’ll quote from Wayne’s World… “Game On!” Cheers! The WineWonkette 
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October 16th, 2009 at 10:52 pm
How fun!
I can't wait to see how this shakes out!
Good luck to you and Joe.
But in a girl-power move (pun intended) I hope you win.
And since you're tight the the Crushpad folks, can you get them to send me one of those great promo corkscrews? I want! I want!
October 18th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
The corkscrew came in our FUSEBOX. and I thought the picture turned out well, so I added it to the story. But I bet you could send a DM on twitter and find a way to get one
October 19th, 2009 at 10:35 am
Looking forward to this – I was on the original list of bloggers, but we could not figure out a way to get the kit sent to me in time due to the crappy monopolistic shipping laws in PA…
October 19th, 2009 at 2:28 pm
Good Luck!
October 19th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Looking forward to this – I was on the original list of bloggers, but we could not figure out a way to get the kit sent to me in time due to the crappy monopolistic shipping laws in PA…
November 8th, 2009 at 4:23 pm
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