2006
NAPA Valley
California
Would drink again.
This is a very simple, refreshing versatile "cheap" wine. On a warm summer day, served with the right appetizer, this is pretty good. A very light, light, golden green / straw in color, it's a mild blend of citrus and slight vanilla. Not too dry, not too sweet. Accompanies cheese and crackers and strawberries well.
I take a figure drawing class at a museum and besides that being the best perk of all to the class - being surrounded by the paintings and sculptures of some great American artists - one of the other very nice perks is that we often stop in the middle of our four hour class, get up and go see the latest exhibit. Often we apply it to what we are doing, other times we just admire it. This past week, we had the luxury of being able to participate in the opening reception for an artist I immediately loved: Angelika Rinnhofer. Angelika exhibited her incredible photographs done in such a way as to resemble Renaissance and Baroque oil paintings. I was awestruck. Her photos were incredibly like fine oil paintings. What I loved most was her symbolism and use of contradiction. She had laptops and watches and modern jewelry very carefully placed in a way that they did not stand out, but felt like part of the natural setting - representing a link between past and present. She used ordinary people posed as Renaissance Upper Class. She used modern ideas like plastic surgery represented in an old fashion pose. Very fascinating work.
Back to the reason for mentioning this - we got to partake in the opening reception food and wine (no cost involved). Very nice way to spend a Sunday. I immediately got my glass of Beringer Sauvignon Blanc (that was what was being poured) and a prosciutto and cream cheese and spinach pinwheel rollup and planted myself in front of this artist's amazing work.
I shall close with Angelika's quote about her current series she's completing (suicides of famous Americans):
"I show our society's elite inhabitants, immersed in their wealth and power with myriad possessions and exquisite taste, but nonetheless, miserable and unhappy . . . Here is where publicity's promise of happiness through envy and glamour is proven wrong."
Angelika Rinnhofer, Artist
http://www.angelikarinnhofer.com/
7.5 out of 10 alone, easily could be an 8.0 out of 10 with the right accompaniment
$10 / 750 ml bottle
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