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shewhomust) wrote2007-01-30 04:31 pm
shewhomust) wrote2007-01-30 04:31 pm
Thinking of Angoulême
Last few days of January: this time last year - and this time the year before that - we were on our way home from Angoulême, driving through France, head full of French and comics and what to buy to bring home and prolong those good feelings?
One of the trophies of that last supermarket trolley dash was half a dozen bottles of Bordeaux from the end-of-range bargain bin: Château Monbadon, with a label designed by comics artists Dupuy and Berberian.
The neck tag explained that it was one of a series: six Bordeaux châteaux working with six comics artists (seven if you count Dupuy and Berberian as two, which the French tend not to - but that's a whole other subject) as a fundraiser for the mental health charity UNAPEI. We'd happily have bought others as well, but this was the only one left; we would happily have paid more for the entertainment factor, but it was reduced to €3 (£2, $3). So we bought what they had. And the unexpected bonus was that it was good wine, fruity and well balanced.
And a year later, I shall now tidy the label off my desk; so that's something acheived. A little sorry not to be in France, but hoping to go back soon, and glad not to be missing tonight's launch party.
One of the trophies of that last supermarket trolley dash was half a dozen bottles of Bordeaux from the end-of-range bargain bin: Château Monbadon, with a label designed by comics artists Dupuy and Berberian.The neck tag explained that it was one of a series: six Bordeaux châteaux working with six comics artists (seven if you count Dupuy and Berberian as two, which the French tend not to - but that's a whole other subject) as a fundraiser for the mental health charity UNAPEI. We'd happily have bought others as well, but this was the only one left; we would happily have paid more for the entertainment factor, but it was reduced to €3 (£2, $3). So we bought what they had. And the unexpected bonus was that it was good wine, fruity and well balanced.
And a year later, I shall now tidy the label off my desk; so that's something acheived. A little sorry not to be in France, but hoping to go back soon, and glad not to be missing tonight's launch party.