It is true that you can determine something about a book by its cover. Now that we have so many different types of covers to choose from, the likelihood of the cover being reflective of its contents is very high.
That cover may be how you adorn yourself, the furniture you choose, which copy of Lolita you put in your Amazon shopping cart or it can be the label on a wine bottle.
NK and I are big fans of rose’ wines, as are about 95% of our friends. What most of us seem to have in common is that we love the more salmon colored rose’ rather than the darker cough syrup-y Tavel types (difference being the skins are kept on longer, making the wine darker and other things that wine-makers and enthusiasts know more about). These lighter types are closer to the wines made in Provence, which, as all of you know, is rose’ country.
One of our new favorite rose’ wines comes from Croteaux Vineyards on the North Fork. Rose’ is all Micheal and Paula produce. LO and RS introduced us to the wines and we became smitten. Then we visited the vineyard for a tasting and we fell in love. In his city life, Michael Croteau is a commercial art director, which is abundantly apparent when you look at the vineyard’s environment.
We felt as though we were in the south of France. Or what we imagined the south of France to look like. Besides designing the physical environment, he designed the wine labels as well; as an extension of the surroundings.
As it turns out, he also designed the label of another favorite wine of ours: a Channing Daughters rose'; which we chose to buy based on two criteria: the color of the wine and the design of the label. Coincidentally, of all their wines, the one we loved most was made with grapes from Michael’s vineyard. Fancy that.
And Michael also shared an opinion with us that we have held as well but never voiced. And that is…
There is rarely a good bottle of wine with an ugly label. Those who have the good taste to make a good wine usually have the good taste to make a good label.
So there!
Love this! muchisima gracias!
ReplyDeleteYou're right - you can judge a bottle by its cover. That makes perfect sense. With books, though, it's not so reliable - because a) great writers don't always have great esthetic taste to begin with; I bet lots of them dress terribly and b) even if they do have good taste, they don't always have control over how the book comes out. Unless they self-publish.
ReplyDeleteAnother vote for rose here. and yay for Channing Daughters. Great friends of ours.