Wine: Rosé

[Mike Buckley]

Rosé is a style of wine that has a light color usually due to the grape skins being left in the juice a relatively short period of time. Compare that with red wine, which gets its much darker color from leaving the grape skins in the juice a lot longer, and white wine, which has the least intense color because the grape skins are removed at the outset.

Neither my friends who bought the wine nor my wife and I got around to trying this rosé but I was compelled to photograph it for two reasons: the bottle's shape is unique and I had never seen a bottle that has the punt embossed with the winery's name.

This rosé is made from Cinsault, Syrah, Vermentino and Grenache grapes.

Setup
The background is translucent vellum and the tabletop is glass. Two small continuous-light lamps behind the background, one behind the wine bottle and the other behind the dishware, are shining toward the subjects and camera. That lighting defines the outline of the wine glasses and wine bottle in dark tones. Two flash lights are used to brighten the plates, one to brighten their rims and the other one to brighten the top. A third flash light brightens the wine label. The cool tones in the background and tabletop were added during post-processing. The horizon created by the glass tabletop was removed during post-processing.

[mugge]

Mike, my initial reaction was to whinge about the top of the bottle. I put my hand over it. Nah! is good.
Cheers Ole

[Wavelength]

You are an adept of this genre!!!

[Shadowman]

Nicely captured, the additional elements work well also because of their placement within the composition. My first thought was sets of two not so interesting; yet the placement, crop, reflection, and lines keep the eyes moving and interested.

[bje07]

Nice composition Mike
You forgot this detail
The Château de Miraval Cuvée Pink Floyd 2016 is a real jewelry that has caused a lot of ink to flow. Indeed this Côtes de Provence is produced by none other than the famous couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. It reveals an intense bouquet of red fruits, white flowers, strawberries and morello cherries. The attack is round and supple on aromas of strawberry and cherry. A rosé that will be perfect for an aperitif and to accompany fish or grilled meats.

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you, everyone!

Jean mentioned some interesting details about Chateau de Miraval, the winery that makes this rosé. However, this wine is not the Pink Floyd 2016 that he mentions. Instead, it's the 2013 vintage and it bears no name of Pink Floyd or any other famous musician.

As for the celebrities associated with the chateau, jazz pianist and film and television music composer Jacques Loussier owned the chateau in the 1970s. After he broke up his jazz trio of piano, string bass and drums that played the music of Bach in a jazz style (I used to regularly listen to his albums), he created a recording studio at the chateau. Pink Floyd, Sting and other celebrities recorded there. Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt now own the chateau and have a partnership of some sort with the Perrin family, a family that has been making French wine for five generations. When the actors' impending divorce became public knowledge, it was also reported that they had put the chateau up for sale. It was later reported that that was not true.

The chateau's website explains that the name of the winery has been embossed in the punt of the bottle beginning with the 2014 vintage. That's especially interesting considering that the bottle I used to make my photo, which bears the embossed name, is their 2013 rosé.

[Mike Buckley]

My first thought was sets of two not so interesting

I initially envisioned a set of four. However, when using four plates, the top of the top plate could not be seen without raising the camera. Raising the camera caused a problem because it changed the perspective that adversely affected the relationship between the wine label and the bottle's punt. That explains why I ended up using only two plates and forks.

[DanK]

very nice composition and, as often, fabulous lighting

[Donald]

Beautifully lit, Mike and a very nicely assembled composition.

Hideously shaped bottle (sorry, I'm just a boring old traditionalist!). And, of course, Provence - the only place to go for Rosé wine (he says controversially).

[Mike Buckley]

Thank you to Dan and Donald!

Provence - the only place to go for Rosé wine (he says controversially).

If we're going to be controversial, I should add my idea that one shouldn't go anywhere for rosé and instead should drink just about any other kind of wine.

[Donald]

If we're going to be controversial, I should add my idea that one shouldn't go anywhere for rosé and instead should drink just about any other kind of wine.

Ha ha ha.

Many would agree!