The bottle I got 22 Black from 2007, "It's not typical full body Cabernet Sauvigon" , spouted one of my friends who sampled many a wine. Myself I haven't had many different ones The friends who I enjoyed Black 22 with, one summer evening commented: very smooth , deep burgundy color, would be great with steaks or lamb, hints of light oak all comments when we sipped the wine . "Gets all 4 stars from me" , said a friend.
What pulls you in is the extra quality and care that a company takes to brand itself to make it stand out. JAQK Cellars does that and more by having the taste to back it up.
A part of me will be always compelled to take the extra time to enjoy the bottle just for it's look. Writing "ENJOY and Good Luck" doesn't hurt either.
I highly recommend looking through their selection online,, these are the perfect business gift or something to impress others with.
You can find JAQK's Wine locally carried in the following stores or simply check out the
interactive map
Wally's Wines
Mission Liquors
90210 Wine & Spirits
Bottle Rock
On the note of style and cards.
Art Hustle Cards
Series Two just launched.
Art Hustle cards takes the premise of baseball cards and switches artists for baseball players. Starting off, I have to say I don't like the cheap material there made out of and I would have liked a more uniform look to the front of the cards. You get a image of the artist or art of the artist in fron and their name in a big font. I would have liked some time to take their images for the cards not just some radom image of them. On the back of the cards are some facts for every artist. Hometown, medium of choice and color make sense for art cards, but astrological sign, distinguishing marks, right or left could have been some better info. Also Motto, Quote or Creed doesn't make sense when there is a big Motto, Quote or Creed below the first one. Nicely a website of the artist is lsited at the bottom.
For art cards I excepted more, in other collectible trading cards you could create a big image from the backs of multiple cards. Art Hustle's series does feature special autographed cards. I got one from Jeff Soto and he made it as creepy as Hell, by signing it. Other featured cards are just certain pieces from artist. On the back is what medium and what was used to create them if they're from etsy. If vinyl it lists how many other of the figure were made.
Two tiny cards are included with each pack and just have small images of artists on the front with no background info on back.
I wanted more from the card series.
