Passerelle des Arts

Passerelle Vinpressionniste / connexion du vin à la peinture : on relie la réputation de fermeté en dégustation du Cabernet Sauvignon et son aromatique végétale, avec la notoriété d’austérité du style de Manet et l’ambiance quelque peu martiale de cette peinture qui dépeint un garçon de troupe de la garde impériale de Napoléon III. Réputation, car si le Cabernet est plus ferme que les autres rouges Vinpressionnistes, il est un Cabernet du Languedoc rond, gourmand et fruité dans la lignée de la collection.
Tasting : Intense and brilliant ruby colour, a rich and concentrated nose. Nose of ripe fruit and vegetal on the typical eucalyptus of the variety. Frank attack, structured mouth, round and warm. Aromatic of black fruits. Fife – Cabernet Sauvignon benefits a lot from being aerated before tasting.
Back label : Manet to his friend Fantin-Latour on the subject of the Pablo of Valladollid who will inspire him the fife:
«The most astonishing piece of painting that we have ever done ... The background disappears: it is the air which surrounds the man, dressed in black and alive».. Here you are at the crossroads, at the unprecedented encounter of three arts: wine, painting and music.
Victor Mercadier invites you to a 'Vinpressionniste' experience by associating the inspirations of the painter, the winemaker and the musician to serve you harmony of colors, flavors and notes through this full-bodied and silky Cabernet with accents of black fruits and eucalyptus. Let yourself be carried away by the melody with fruity notes of the fife...

Passerelle Vinpressionniste / connexion du vin à la peinture : comme le créateur d’un vin qui joue des cépages, des techniques de vinification, des conditions d’élevage pour créer son oeuvre; le créateur d’une pièce de théâtre joue des personnages, des décors, des costumes pour créer l’univers qu’est la pièce. Symboliquement, la pièce ici, c’est le vin, et Merlot et Petit-Verdot en sont les acteurs sur la scène des Vinpressionnistes.
Tasting : a majority of Merlot which brings its delicacy balanced by 30% of Petit Verdot which brings a nice acidity to enhance the finish. Intense nose of raspberry, elderberry and liquorice notes. A fleshy mouth, delivering aromas of blackberry and blackcurrant. We still find garrigued notes. Long persistence.
Back label : «Our roots are deep in the woods, among the mosses, around the springs».
This was the motto that could be read at the entrance to Emile Gallé’s workshop. With the colombine playing with a puffer we make a jump in the Comedia Dell Arte. While we are discovering a wine resulting from the interplay of grape varieties, vinification and aging, it’s up to us to imagine the play that could well accompany it...
At the crossroads of three arts, Victor Mercadier invites you to a «Vinpressionniste experience» by associating the inspirations of the painter, the winegrower and the actor to serve you the harmony of colors, flavors and play. Imagine the puppet come alive over a drink and let yourself be carried away in a play of fruity flavors.

Vinpressionniste bridge : "The little rats of the opera" is a French expression of the ballet jargon which here describes young dancers in dance tights looking like little rats: the painting inspires finesse, the suppleness, the lightness of a fine 12 ° Pinot Noir, elegant and graceful like young dancers.
Tasting : A Pinot Noir from the Black Mountain in Minervois. In this oceanicinfluenced microclimate, the Pinot expresses itself with more freshness and finesse than the Pinots from the Languedoc plain. A compromise between the fruity Languedoc wines and the freshness / finesse of Burgundian Pinots Noirs. Aromas of small red fruits, morello cherry, with empyreumatic notes. The attack is fresh and the mouth silky.
Back label : What grace, what elegance, what finesse, what flexibility... From the dream and the fascination of ballets, to the pleasure and emotion of tasting, feelings blend. This fine Pinot Noir and the graceful evolutions of the little rats of the opera, merge with a touching naturalness.
At the crossroads of three arts, Victor Mercadier invites you to a «Vinpressionniste experience» by associating the inspirations of the painter, the winegrower and the actor to serve you the harmony of colors, flavors and play. Imagine the puppet come alive over a drink and let yourself be carried away in a play of fruity flavors.

Vinpressionniste bridge : The bridge is visual organoleptic with a color of the wine that we will find in the tone of the stars captured in this night of Van Gogh.
We can digress on the diversity of colors that wine can take on as it ages, in comparison with the diversity of the stars in the sky that Van Gogh talks about to his sister in the extract from the letter on the back label. A wine with a nightly atmosphere.
Tasting : an atypical wine with a blend that often challenges by its unusual character. The texture is fatter than the Viognier, we often perceive a first taste dominated by Chardonnay, on the brioche bread, toasted, notes of hazelnuts. Then the roussanne takes over with accents of honey, apricot and white flowers.
Back label : Van Gogh to his sister Wilhelmina, September 9 and 16, 1888: “Now I absolutely want to paint a starry sky. Often it seems to me that the night is even more richly colored than the day, colored with the most intense purples, blues and greens. When you pay attention to it you will see that some stars are lemony, others have pink, green, blue lights, forget-me-nots.[…]”. The wine in the glass like the stars in the sky is adorned with a thousand reflections then a thousand flavors in the mouth. Victor Mercadier invites you to a "Vinpressionist" experience by combining the inspirations of the painter and the winemaker to serve you the harmony of colors and flavors through this subtle blend of Chardonnay and Roussanne. Conquer the sky and put the stars in your glass.

Passerelles Vinpressionnistes / connexion du vin à la peinture : d’abord en terme aromatique, le cadre végétalisé de la peinture avec un cassissier illustre l’aromatique végétale sur le cassis notamment ; ensuite en terme de texture, l’eau qui s’écoule de la conscience sur l’épaule de la nymphe, illustre la texture fluide du Sauvignon quand un Chardonnay Roussanne sera plus gras, presque épais; enfin, le corps de la nymphe représentant l’idéal de beauté d’alors, l’équilibre des formes, les proportions parfaites, symbolise l’équilbre du vin entre acidité, gras et rondeur. La nymphe illustre aussi la chair du vin.
Tasting : un Sauvignon du Languedoc fruité avec une aromatique marquée sur le cassis, une bouche vive et fraîche à l’acidité maîtrisée sur les fruits exotiques. 
Back label : “Never was flesh more supple, fresher, more permeated with life, more permeated with light, offered itself to view in its modest nudity. The ideal this time was a trompe-l’oeil” (Théophile Gautier about 'La source'). Tannins and acidity, which form the backbone of the wine, are enveloped by the softness of the flesh. Its material, its flesh, is harmonious and balanced in relation to its structure, its skeleton, and its power.
Victor Mercadier vous invite à une expérience « Vinpressionniste » en associant les inspirations du peintre et du vigneron pour vous servir l’harmonie des couleurs et des saveurs à travers ce Sauvignon vif et onctueux. Lorsque caresse du regard et du palais se fondent …

Vinpressionniste bridge : l’ambiance fleurie de la peinture illustre le caractère floral du vin sur la fleur de pêcher ; l’atmosphère aérienne de la peinture avec l’écharpe et la robe de Suzanne Hoschedé flottant au vent illustre le caractère frais et léger pour un Viognier.
Tasting : un Viognier assez tendu, frais, avec des notes finement iodées, identifiable sur ces arômes de fruits à chair jaune, de poire, et ses notes de jasmin et de fleur d’acacia. Un bon compromis entre fraîcheur, gras et rondeur.
Back label : “I am working like never before, and on new attempts, open-air figures as I understand them, made like landscapes. It’s an old dream that still bothers me and that I want to achieve once and for all”. In the summer of 1886, Monet painted two large paintings of his daughter-in-law Suzanne Hoschedé, the prettiest of Alice Hoschedé’s four daughters, as a young girl with an umbrella turned to the left and to the right.

Let yourself be “Vinpressed” by its subtle color schemes and its aromas of spring flowers in a peach velvet.
Victor Mercadier invites you to a «Vinpressioniste» experience by associating the inspirations of the painter and the winemaker to serve you the harmony of colors and flavors through this pure Viognier.

Vinpressionniste bridge : une passerelle organoleptique visuelle avec une robe du vin que l’on va retrouver dans le soleil levant sur le port du Havre. Le gris bleu des brumes matinales dépeintes par Monet crée un contraste tout a fait saisissant avec la robe rosée du vin. Le soleil en rappel au centre de la peinture fait le lien et symbolise l’aromatique de pamplemousse et de groseille par sa forme et sa couleur. 
Tasting : A little-known grape variety which often calls out. The wine is fruity, not aggressive, with notes of crushed strawberries, hints of currants and a grapefruit finish. Still some iodized notes and a slightly saline finish.
Back label : “Say Impression” said Claude Monet to Edmond Renoir who added: “rising sun”. This is how the most famous impressionist work was named for the 1st exhibition of the Anonymous Society of Painters, Sculptors et Engravers in 1874. Like the sun on the port of Le Havre in the early morning, raise your pink glass and light up the table of its pastel reflections. Let yourself be «Vinpressed» by its subtle color schemes and its aromas of redcurrant enhanced by iodine notes.
Laissez-vous « Vinpressionner » par ses jeux de couleurs subtils et ses arômes de groseille relevés par des notes iodées.

Victor Mercadier invites you to a «Vinpressionniste» experience by combining the inspirations of the painter and the winemaker to serve you the harmony of colors and flavors through this fruity rosé wine with reflections of the rising sun.