Nice wine, nice bird

 

We had a good bottle of Malbec before attending a performance by comedian Mark Steel at the  Derngate Theatre in Northampton a couple of weeks ago.  We didn’t just have the Malbec – we had it with Pizza etc in the nearby Pizza Express.

I’ve been wondering ever since why an Argentinian wine has Eurasian Bird, a Lapwing, on its label.

I liked the wine and I like the bird – but it seems like the wrong bird on this wine. How about a Rufous Hornero on a bottle of Margaux?

 

 

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10 Replies to “Nice wine, nice bird”

  1. Perhaps the owner of the vineyard was an an admirer of the Andean lapwing – vanellus Chilensis. (NB Know nothing much about birds, just time on my hands to check out Wiki.)

      1. Its quite like the southern lapwing – Vanellus chilensis, which apart from a grey head is quite like our lapwing. The Andean lapwing V. resplendens is very different

  2. A bit like the American Robin seen in our press sometimes, chosen by a sub-editor from a dsta link. As to the Margaux, a bottle from Waitrose might set you back thirty quid or an estate bottled vintage 2000 just £7500.00! (or perhaps that’s a case)

    1. Nothing beats the Coho salmon leaping on the front page of the EA newsletter in the ’90s

    2. Its Pizza Express remember! Haven’t seen their wine list for a while, or ever for that matter.

  3. There’ll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover…

    It is either a marketing ploy, or its a counterfeit:-}

  4. It’s clearly meant to be a Southern Lapwing. Look at the overall structure and the longer legs.

    A bottle of 2016 Chateau Margaux, 1er Cru, will set you back almost £400 a bottle.

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