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Geez - Is it December already? Where does the time go? It seems like just last week we were particpating in our very first Wine Blogging Wednesday(WBW#15 - Graciously hosted by none other than Fatemeh of Gastronomie)
Now Derrick at An Obsession with Food is hosting Wine Blogging Wednesday #16 and the theme this time is: Judge a Bottle By Its Cover. While everyone is busy window shopping for gifts for loved ones, us Wine Bloggers and Podcasters from all over the Globe are window shopping for the best LABEL on a bottle of wine we can find.
What perfect timing! We just wrapped up Episode 14 of A Guy, a Girl and a Bottle over at Bonny Doon, and they have some of the most interesting labels we have ever seen. Lori chose the Il Circo (Erbaluce) label for it’s fanciful design and carefree circus attitude. Although a fun label, the wine is a bit exotic and we had to do a little research on the varietal as this is the first time we had run across this in our travels.
Erbaluce - One of the oldest white vines of Piedmont, Erbaluce’s origins remain unclear, but it is thought to be native to the damp, pre-Alpine valleys north of Torino. Still widely planted in Piedmont, it has remained primarily confined to that region. The variety takes its name from the color of its berries approaching harvest (“erba/alba” = dawn; “luce” = light), which in the autumn sunlight are a luminous copper-pink shade. The medium sized, five-lobed leaves are bright green in color and the elongated, conical bunches support spherical, waxy, amber-yellow berries of medium size. - Source http://www.kobrandwine.com/grape_library/pages/erbaluce.html
Joe chose the more controversial Ralph Steadman as the artist for the Bonny Doon Cardinal Zin. Can you believe those folks in Ohio once banned this bottle as - in their opinion - it committed a zin by depicting a religious figure on a bottle of wine? (Even we can’t make this stuff up! - check it out over here. Ralph Steadman is also known for his work with Hunter S Thompson, and has even written several books about wine ‘Grapes of Ralph’ and ‘Untrodden Grapes’. (http://www.ralphsteadman.com)
Check out our labels and all the other entries over at the Flickr group with a tag of WBW16. Thanks to Derrick for choosing another great theme for Wine Blogging Wednesday! See you next month!
Joe & Lori
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