Wine and Famous Artists
Lucian Freud has just deigned a new wine label for
Chateau Mouton Rothschild 2006.
While the wine is obviously superb, the label by Freud
adds an exotic upmarket touch.
It is of course a Family Tradition in the Rothschild Family.
Baron Philippe de Rothschild commissioned Jean Carlu to design a label in 1924 for the first vintage
bottled entirely at the Chateau.
He also commissioned a label with V for Victory at the end of World War II
Other labels by Marc Chagall,Francis Bacon ,Andy Warhol and Wassily Kandinsky also grace his wine Labels.
It is delightful to see fine art in conjection with the finest of wines.
Also it is rather interesting that many other vineyards have now adopted the similar system of ungrading their wine labels with collectable Art.(not that any Chateau Rothschild wine even remotely needed upgrading of course !)

Among the other famous Artists who have designed WIne Labels are :
Picasso,
Dali,
Haring,
Balthus,
Georges Braque,
George Baselitz,

I have even seen wine Labels featuring paintings by the Great Masters of the Past including Leonardo da Vinci
But which glass to use to drink them from ?
I tend to favour Baccarat myself ...

There is a rather jolly website offering to produce your very own wine labels (with wine of course !)
and I quite fancy designing my own labels for some of my friends.
Thats at : http://www.stoneycreekwinepress.com/

Here is another article about Artists and Wine Labels:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=aIw2ZclFW50k&refer=home
I forgot to mention that many famous artists (including myself of course) (well famous for 12 miles in any direction !)- prefer to be paid in wine - a pretty good deal for those chosen to design for Chateau Rothschild I think !