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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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.)
Anne – could be, though there isn’t much resemblance between the birds.
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
Keltehue is seemingly a spelling of the name for vanellus chiliensis. See here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gs4kEQYy_qg
Queltehue seems to be by far the more common spelling.
Maybe the next time the vineyard owner will ask for a pic using the scientific name.
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)
Nothing beats the Coho salmon leaping on the front page of the EA newsletter in the ’90s
Its Pizza Express remember! Haven’t seen their wine list for a while, or ever for that matter.
There’ll be blue birds over the white cliffs of Dover…
It is either a marketing ploy, or its a counterfeit:-}
Are you sure it’s not that CA-endemic the Bonner’s Dotterel?
https://twitter.com/CA_TimB/status/978934105541894144
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.