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Chinese painter Xu Lei Creates Chateau Mouton Rothschild Label

Filed under: Wine, Art

Showcasing just how important the Chinese wine market is when it comes to Bordeaux, Chateau Mouton Rothschild has chosen Chinese painter Xu Lei as the artist to create the wine label for the 2008 vintage. Xu is artistic director of Today Art Museum in Beijing. His label is an ink drawing with the Mouton symbol, a ram standing between two halves of the moon covered with vines and grapes. The label represents wine as a bridge between two hemispheres. The choice of a Chinese artist has driven up the price of the 2008 vintage. Decanter reports that prices went up 20% overnight on the back of the announcement, and the wine is currently trading at around £10,000 per case. The bottle also bears the Chinese symbol for the figure eight, a symbol that is considered to be auspicious.

The Mouton Rothschild Artists label has featured a variety of artists such as Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali, Francis Bacon, Andy Warhol, Lucien Freud and Prince Charles. Check out some examples in the gallery below.

Gallery: Chateau Mouton Rothschild Labels

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Chateau Mouton Rothschild Available For Half Price

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Wine

The prices for Bordeaux keep commanding the news this week because they are lower than they have been for a while. Chateau Mouton Rothschild released its 2008 vintage at 100 euros, the lowest so far of the first growths (Chateau Latour was released at 110 euros). The new price is half the price of the 2007 which was 26 percent lower than the 2006.

The wine chateaux are all releasing at low prices to help keep the market functioning. The strategy of low prices seems to be attracting attention after years of inflated prices. Decanter reports that Chateau Leoville Barton has already sold 85 percent of its production after releasing its Bordeaux at a price of 23 euros per bottle this morning down from last year's 27 euros. Chateau Gruaud Larose released the whole of its 2008 production today, at 19.50 euros down from last year's 24 euros.

Some wineries are reducing the amount of discounted wine they are making available as Chateau Angelus did, making just enough available to whet appetites until fortunes change.

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