So my parents are soon celebrating their 35. anniversary and I want to buy them their marriage wine (or if not available, something close to it). All I’ve got is this blurry picture though:
I’ve already asked friends and a local wine shop, but nobody could help me out. That’s why I am here!
As far as I can tell, the wine logo is a blue/purple, standing oval with a yellow “v” and a golden crown on top. The wine is probably not the cheapest since it was a big day in their life. The wine is presumably of the vintage around 1978.
Can someone help me out? Do you know what kind of wine this is? Even the “sort” or some other details would already help me a lot.
I’m very excited about your contribution and comments!
Wish I recognized the label, good chance someone here will. But a few clues: It’s a Burgundy shaped bottle, and a glass often used for Burgundy as well, plus the labels look quite Burgundy-like, so I’m going to conclude it’s a Burgundy
I lean towards the Bojo view, however looking at the positioning, I’m in the camp that it’s probably Beaujolais Villages as they would have centred that text - meaning there is another word forming the appellation name.
I suppose it could also bring Beaujolais Nouveau into the equation, but was that term used widely on labels?
You have to understand how small the wine world was back then. The UNited States did not have anywhere near the sophistication of wine drinking we have now. Beaujolais, heck anything from France would have been seen as “high class” regardless of what the appellation was, so I could see this for a wedding (Lancers would have been seen as a special wine, so this is clearly a step up!).
Early for nouveau. It existed, but wasn’t widely distributed in bottles overseas at that time. (if at all). I do remember casks in Paris about that time
I think that logo is one used by Henri de Villamont at the time. I knew it looked familiar, but I can’t take credit for remembering who it was. It was the V that helped me narrow down the google search.
